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I find it strange how many people on Facebook have declared how much they loved Food, Inc. I’ve even received emails about the movie, imploring me to go see it right now. But we watched it a couple of nights ago, and honestly, it was just kind of meh. I realize that not [...]
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It’s been over 100º here in California, which is very uncharacteristic for May. Our house doesn’t have central air, a fact you might remember from my post about that fateful day when we broke down and bought a window unit. Our house is old and has terrible circulation, which makes it intolerable when the weather [...]
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Last week a reader sent me an email to let me know that there is an article about raw milk in the May 12 issue of TIME Magazine. (Thanks, Jody Morris!) Raw milk is a hotly contested issue all over the U.S., with devoted raw milk consumers on one side and food safety regulators on [...]
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Do you want to learn about artisanal cheeses? Are you unfamiliar with the many different kinds of mushrooms available, let alone how to prepare them in the kitchen? Have you ever wondered about the merits of wild versus farmed fish? Do you want to learn more about seasonings?
New Good Food will [...]
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Now that I’ve told you everything about King Corn except anything about the actual movie, I figure it’s probably time to write about the film itself. Well, I loved it. But that’s not really enough for you, so let’s see…
From the first moments of the movie, you get the feeling that it’s going to have [...]
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You may remember my earlier post about the movie King Corn, where I told you guys you should go see it. Well, I got my little hands on an advance copy (I know! I’m awesome), and I loved it. The movie was predictably about corn, but actually it was the two guys in the film, [...]
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If you’re like me, you read Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild and loved it, feeling the wanderlust and thirst for adventure that were so precious to Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp. Though the backlash after McCandless’ death in 1992 was harsh at best, Krakauer set about to describe the tramp’s journey in its entirety [...]
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I just got a press release in my inbox about a film called “King Corn”, which deals with the production of corn in Iowa and its greater impact on the American diet. If you’ve read Omnivore’s Dilemma, you’ll definitely want to watch it, since Michael Pollan was an advisor to the filmmakers [...]
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I don’t remember where I first saw Sprig.com, though I suspect it was in another blog’s links section. There are lots of “sustainable” and “green” blogs out there, and I try and keep up with which blogs are saying what. By checking out my favorite blogs and seeing which sites they’re linking to, I’ve found [...]
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You can now find The Green Book by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen in your local bookstores. It is a nice, portable-sized paperback to fit in your organic cotton backpack. It is not very narrative; rather, it’s a good reference manual to flip through for basic tips on how to live greener, divided into [...]
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I really love food. It’s true that I’m mostly concerned with health, and I’ve been known to do things like go on all-raw stints or drink a lemon juice/apple cider vinegar/water cocktail, supposedly good for the liver. Or maybe the kidneys. I even grow my own parsley for use in the I green veggie juice [...]
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In case you haven’t been paying attention, I have a list of other blogs and websites on the right side of this blog, under the ads. It’s in a kind of un-obvious location, so I’d like to specifically point out The Ethicurean to you. The Ethicurean is a group of [...]
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