Slow Food USA hoping to draw 50,000-plus to its Woodstock at Labor Day weekend festival. In preparation, it has turned San Francisco's City Hall lawn into edible garden, accepted corporate partners and raised more than $2 million. Group will showcase inclusive, independent direction for U.S. branch (Italian parent organization criticized by columnist as elitist global movement to combat globalism - click 'See also').
By Kim Severson
The New York Times 2008-07-23 (entry)
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Democrats' guidelines for convention caterers include half the meal of fruits and/or vegetables, foods in a variety of colors, no fried foods, 70 percent organic and/or local, reusable silverware and no bottled water. Official promises no grease police for those who sneak funnel cakes. And: Denver councilman declares fry-free menu anti-Southern (click 'See also').
By Sara Burnett and Julie Poppen
Rocky Mountain News 2008-07-11 (entry)
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City adds greater police presence to its popular 'Taste of Chicago' event after four persons shot following holiday fireworks display. Shootings occurred a mile away from festival, officials said. Sixty-five vendors are offering a total of 287 items for tastings. For interactive map, click 'See also.'
By Angela Rozas And Jason Meisner
Chicago Tribune 2008-07-04 (entry)
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Easy availability of calories through cooking may have allowed diversion of energy from gut to brain in early humans, nurturing cognitive innovations including abstract thinking, creation of art and invention of tools, study suggests. And: Cooking pot responsible for dramatic change in human brain size, Harvard primatologist believes (click 'See also').
By Robin Nixon
LiveScience 2008-08-11 (entry)
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Farming lures novice growers and longtime gardeners looking for living and lifestyle. Beyond beauty, there's hot, hard work, observing the soil, weather and growing cycles and understanding business management. Networking is a start - for finding land, mentor or employer.
By Vickie Elmer
The Washington Post 2008-08-10 (entry)
Corporate responsibility, long-term solutions becoming company priorities as customers focus on source, impact of food production. Example is Cargill, with 30 plants in China, which provided earthquake aid plus funding for sustainable agriculture and food security. And: In 1880, Pullman community was firm's ill-fated investment in employees (click 'See also').
By Laura Crowley
nutraingredients.com 2008-07-31 (entry)
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House OKs measure that would strengthen enforcement of ban on removing the fins of a shark and discarding the carcass, first established in the Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000. And: fishermen from Spain and Indonesia are main culprits; soup is served as a celebratory treat for growing affluent class in China (click 'See also').
CQ Politics 2008-06-11 (entry)
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For single Latino men in US to work, the kitchen is the most foreign territory of all. So they learn to cook from their amused moms or wives, long-distance - shattering the norms of their machismo society and occasionally setting off the smoke detector in pursuit of frijoles and carne asada.
By Steve Hendrix
The Washington Post 2008-05-12 (entry)
For what lies in the hearts and minds of the candidates, there are better places to look than their palates -- and their recipes. First families don't get to the White House because of their cooking, so let's stop pretending that politicians own well-thumbed copies of "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook," and let's stop asking them for family recipes.
By Walter Scheib
The New York Times 2008-04-20 (entry)
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"And soon it was lunchtime/
Mom said I should ask about how poor kids could get fed/
So I got a book of tickets and a schedule and it read/
Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco/
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk/
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and doritos in a bag/
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week/...
As time went on we figured out/
It was totally uncool/
To eat the welfare lunch/
Provided by the school/
So in poser-punker fashion/
We just mooched off all the kids/
And lived off eating candy bars/
And bags of nacho chips/
Monday - Hot Dog, Tuesday - Taco/
Wednesday - Hamburgers and Chocolate Milk/
Thursday - Sloppy Joes and doritos in a bag/
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week/
It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans/
Hooray for Pizza Day/
Hooray for Pizza Day/
I miss Pizza Day./ "
— The Aquabats, "Pizza Day" lyrics
Proposition 2, which would ban factory farms in California from using small pens or cages, brings to mind childhood on Oregon farm. Of animals raised for food, two provided pause: Pigs, with their characters and obvious intelligence; and geese, many of which could overcome panic at slaughter time to step away from flock and comfort a doomed mate.
By Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times 2008-07-31 (entry)
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When area grandmother's offer to make cold-cut sandwiches for everyone is rebuffed, she is persuaded by grandchildren to try Indian restaurant a couple of blocks from her home. There, a feast of new flavors assaulted her palate, The Onion reporters learn.
The Onion 2008-06-14 (entry)
Culinary mysteries, for book club members, are bonbons with good recipes.
Books and cooking blend into dinners and convivial chaos for Dallas-area group. Though the group's members lean toward mysteries (the recipes are sometimes better than the improbable plots), they have read and cooked from non-fiction, including Frances Mayes' 'Under the Tuscan Sun.'
By Joyce Saenz Harris
The Dallas Morning News 2008-04-22 (entry)
On a camping trip, there are a few must-haves beyond comfortable boots and breathable socks - namely, a knife that can fold; dishes with lids that can also be used as Frisbees, and a bar blade, the Rolls Royce of bottle openers that can also stir a pot and pull a tent peg out of the ground (click 'See also').
By Charlie Sorrel
Wired 2008-05-05 (entry)
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Fruitcake, long an object of reverence and revulsion, has evolved past its traffic-light colors of hideous candied fruit to a plethora of nuts, booze and maybe a bit of pineapple, much to eaters' (and bakers' ) delight.
By Susan Warren
The Wall Street Journal (may require subscription) 2007-12-22 (entry)
Maintaining a sweet red-and-white striped Christmas tradition means tossing and turning a gooey 20-pound glob of peppermint-scented candy into the stuff of dreams, and it happens at Logan's candy store, in sunny California.
By Charles Phoenix and Steve Proffitt
National Public Radio 2007-12-20 (entry)
Israeli chocolate factory doubles up on shifts to replace 99 tons of chocolate stolen at height of Passover preparation. Police think thieves neutralized alarms, covered camera lens with tape, then hauled pallets of chocolate away on trucks. One ton has been recovered in Kabul neighborhood grocery store; company usually makes 1,000 tons a month.
By Fadi Eyadat
Haaretz Newspaper 2008-04-11 (entry)
After study a decade ago showed link of obesity to higher levels of religious participation, churches strengthened commitment to ministry beyond spirit, to body. But after follow-up study in 2006, researcher says that church is contributing to public health problem by condoning high-fat foods at fellowship. Faith-based weight-loss programs spring up: Light Weigh, Freedom Weight Loss Program, and First Place.
By Colette M. Jenkins
Akron Beacon-Journal (OH) 2008-03-11 (entry)
Move toward buying more local and organic foods reflects value judgments and is returning morality to the table, says member of group that celebrates theories of economist E.F. Schumacher. It is the antithesis of the modern economy, which reduces relationships to those of maximum use.
By Michael Gordon
Times Union (NY) 2008-01-19 (entry)
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Elementary and junior-high students in Missouri learn horticulture from ground to farmers' market; school garden holds potatoes, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash and corn.
By Greg Grisolano
The Joplin Globe (MO) 2007-08-15 (entry)
Vermont school, working with local farmers and agricultural experts, plants garden designed to feed its 200 students homegrown vegetables at lunchtime, teaching a way of life, not only nutrition or fitness.
By Nicole Orne
Brattleboro Reformer (VT) (entry)
Government's subsidies to the very rich need to be addressed, but Congress should follow lead of the House in tending to nutrition needs of very poor around the world via the Food for Education program in the farm/food bill.
The editors
The Daily News Tribune (MA) 2007-08-28 (entry)
