Busy week in food-related news…I say this every week. It still amazes me, now that I concentrate my news topics to “food” how many stories there are in one week. Before I get to the linking bonanza there are two pieces of housekeeping to attend to: 1) One of my favorite cooking blogs, the kitchn,…
Tag: food policy
{weekend reading} NATIONAL edition
What.a.week. My food project resolution post was featured on WordPress’ “Freshly Pressed” front page feature AND as the featured post in the food, travel and recipes tag pages. We received thousands of views and can barely keep up with all the positive feedback we’re getting (Thank you and welcome new readers!!!). Back in real life,…
{weekend reading} Weekday Edition 2011
Okay, so I pondered and reflected in yesterday’s weekend reading and now its time to get back to business at hand- current food-related goodies happening NOW! Not last November, that would be sooo 2010. This WR is very recipe heavy because honestly, post-holidaze & three birthdays (yup, me, my husband & my son all have…
{New Year} Loco for Local
Just like everyone else who writes for this blog, I tend to avoid making New Years Resolutions. It seems like a loaded, sentimental effort that for most people tends to not pan out. This year, however, I have been considering my resolution for some time and feel ready to make a sincere commitment. As we…
{weekend reading} Holiday Weekend Edition
Hey Folks; This will be the next-to-last post until next week. We should be back about mid-week for two Dark Day Challenge posts, then we will be dark again until Sunday, January 2nd, 2011. Okay, enough housekeeping stuff, let’s talk food-related news and BONUS, more holiday-inspired recipe links! NEWS In local news, a favorite farm…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL EDITION
FOOD NEWS Let’s start with the “Advertisement Seen Around the World This Week” category. If you haven’t seen Duncan Hines’ “Hip Hop” Cupcake commercial you have missed something special. Like too close to black-face-special. Watch the commercial on Eater, with a little editorial piece. Then head over to Mother Jones for an article on the…
{weekend reading} BEST OF NATIONAL EDITION
11/29/10 NEW NOTE: I have added TWO more articles of the same vein as the Newsweek Story- One from Judith Warner for the NYTimes, the other from The Washington Post by Jane Black & Brent Cunningham. NOTE: I’m taking a short holiday break, so this post is a “best of” from the past 9 weeks…
{weekend reading} National Edition
NEWS A French Sociologist, Claude Fischler, explained at a recent lecture at the University of Washington, is that Americans need to stop eating by themselves, in front of a TV, computer screen, in their car. Grist has more. Post BP spill, the oyster industry is trying to fight back with safe oysters. The Atlantic has…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL EDITION
NEWS Biggest food policy story of the week: Grist reports (Tom Laskaway) that researchers from the University of Southern California decided to test actual brand-name sodas — including Coke, Pepsi, and Sprite — to confirm their exact sugar content and makeup. They found that the High Frutose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in the vast majority contained…
