Conscious Cook belongs to a network of blogs promoting and examining the growing food movement. It's part politics, part economics and part home cooking. The goal is a complete transformation of North American food culture. Welcome!

Why Did We Start Eating Junk?

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 [...]

The Problem with PR

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 [...]