By Paul Cooper on August 10th, 2009
I like to think that the slow food/good food/real food movement (or whatever you want to call it) partly owes its success to the weird diet, the fallout-shelter “food” many of us grew up in the ’70s and ’80s. It all had one thing in common: left to its own devices, it would take months [...]
By Paul Cooper on July 27th, 2009
A few months ago, in the early days of Twitter, an interesting thing happened. Twitter was pregnant with inclusive, bipartisan promise way back then. The future looked bright, like M.J. circa 1988 or Britney before she married K-Fed. Here’s what happened: some of the PR folks at Monsanto responded to the many angry attacks on [...]