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Ok, so you’ve read your Michael Pollan, bought The Art of Simple Food, and now you’re dedicated to the proposition that home-cooking is where it’s at. No more processed food for you. No, sir. Ah, if only it were that easy. But let’s face it: we’re recovering addicts. Processed food is deliberately loaded with brain-pleasing salt [...] [If you missed Part 1, go here.] The Organic Movement Most people are vaguely familiar with the counterculture roots of the organic movement. It’s a success story (perhaps too much of one for those who believe that small is beautiful). A couple of decades ago, the organic section of the average grocery store consisted of a bin [...] October 7th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, food, local, locavore, organic, pollan, profood, slowfood, sustainability | Category: Food Movement | Leave a comment
Those who’ve been following the food beat for personal or professional reasons in the past couple of years probably have a vague, but pretty good idea of what is meant by “the food movement.” The same can’t be said, however, for friends of mine who’ve just started reading one of Michael Pollan’s books or who, [...] October 2nd, 2009 | Tags: food, pollan, profood, slowfood | Category: Everything Else, Food Movement, Slow Food | Leave a comment
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 [...] So you’re not a fan of genetically engineered food. What can you do about it besides buying organic? Well, recently I bloggified the results of several weeks worth of research on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the course of doing all that research I got a pretty good sense of what would most annoy GMO-peddling [...] August 4th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, food, gm, gmo, monsanto, slowfood | Category: GMOs | Leave a comment
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