Food Industry Advocates for Animals After Pressure From Customers
Several large supermarket and big-box chains have announced that they will eventually discontinue stocking their shelves with fish and seafood considered “unsustainable,” that is those vulnerable to over-fishing or capture...
May
21
Ken Albala, a Professor of History at the University of the Pacific is a food fanatic, and in his entertaining TED speech, he talks about how cooking is a spiritual activity. He stresses that most people are not cooking from scratch much any more and discusses how to bring out the intuitive cook...
Dec
28
With humor, Roger Doiron encourages people to grow their own “subversive plots,” their own vegetable gardens. He states that “To keep up with population growth, more food will have to be produced worldwide over the next 50 years than has been during the past 10,000 years...
Dec
26
How to Create and Sustain a Living Classroom
By Jesse Hersh
All photos courtesy Jesse Hersh
Students harvest tomatoes for bruschetta
So you’re convinced your school needs a garden. Perhaps you’re a parent who wants your child to experience the joy of pulling a fresh carrot from the ground, or a...
Oct
31
By Gary Jenanyan,
Executive Chef.
Queso Fresco vendors on the road to Cuzco in the Urubamba Valley.
Timeless Peruvian Cuisine: Ancient, Sustainable….and Fiery
Centuries before Americans were drawn to the notion of sustainable agriculture, as with most other ancient cultures, the people of Peru...
Oct
25
Credit: Giulio Napolitano. © FAO
Director-General Jacques Diouf of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a statement on September 7, 2011, regarding growing concerns about global soil resources and food security.
Speaking in Rome at a three-day meeting to launch the new...
Sep
14
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.
About Mark Bittman
Sep
07
11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food production.
About...
Sep
06
