Cultural Studies & Anthropology
As cost of meat sinks below costs of raising it and certified slaughterhouses remain scarce, livestock producers in southern Maryland turn attention to other sources of income: greenhouse-grown vegetables, grain, specialty animals, agri-tourism or jobs off the farm.
By Jenna Johnson
The Washington Post 2009-01-03 (entry)
Financial woes end hopes for Copia, a California wine and food institute funded in part by late winemaker Robert Mondavi. Financial stability for venture was elusive, and nonprofit never drew visitors needed to support it and its organic herb gardens, demonstration kitchen and restaurant named for Julia Child.
By Julia Moskin
The New York Times 2008-12-23 (entry)
Featuring native peoples from exotic locales who have never eaten a hamburger, new television spot (click 'See also') from Burger King feature 'Whopper Virgins' sampling - and choosing - between company's product, those of McDonald's. Critics call documentary-style ads 'ugly Americanism,' and misuse of money in food-starved world.
By Tom Hundley
Chicago Tribune 2008-12-16 (entry)
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World's largest pork slaughterhouse workers vote to unionize after 16 bitter years, two failed elections. Nearly 5,000 workers at Smithfield slaughter up to 32,000 hogs daily at packing plant in Bladen County, N.C. And: Union officials say effort was expensive, but is model for organizing other meat-packing plants (click 'See also').
By Kristin Collins
The News & Observer (NC) 2008-12-11 (entry)
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Supermarket gift cards trumped those from Target, Best Buy at L.A.-area Gifts for Guns. Event took in record 965 weapons, more than double last year's total. People need to put food on the table, said official. Fewer guns stolen in home invasions means fewer guns on streets.
By Kate Linthicum
Los Angeles Times 2008-12-09 (entry)
On a chance visit to a Pakistani restaurant in London, three siblings are overcome: The mutton, samosa flavors are the best tasted since visits to their aunt's home 20 years ago, and so evocative they brought to mind the punk orange she once dyed her hair. A visit to the restaurant kitchen reveals link to family, memory and culture.
By Nadeem Aslam
The New York Times Magazine 2008-11-30 (entry)
Media exposure strongly linked to childhood obesity, tobacco use and other woes, says new report that probes 30 years of data, mostly focused on movies, music, television. Along with hours of screen time, content matters - children adapt character traits, behaviors from those they watch or hear, researcher says. Parents, another says, should get involved.
By Donna St. George
The Washington Post 2008-12-02 (entry)
Sandra Magnus at work on the water recovery system.
NASA reports successful repairs on water regeneration system, which processes urine, perspiration and bathwater into drinking water. Reliable system is required to support expanded crew of six astronauts, scheduled for arrival in May 2009. Station's kitchen also was updated.
BBC 2008-11-25 (entry)
Return to home cooking means better nutrition, health. Tips for efficiency in kitchen: cook in batches and freeze some, use frozen vegetables, add beans for protein, switch to whole wheat pastas. Turn cooking into family activity - children who help cook are more interested in new foods, flavors. And, they learn a skill.
By Jane E. Brody
The New York Times 2008-11-25 (entry)
As farmers, ranchers age, health-care needs can push them away from agriculture for jobs that provide health insurance, study finds. Buying individual health insurance helps protect land. Farmers long for state-administered group plan, and try to hold on till Medicare. 'It's a hell of a thing to wish a good chunk of your life away (for the comfort of health care coverage),' says respondent.
By David Bennett
Delta Farm Press 2008-10-24 (entry)
The Arkansas Black apple is a favorite of Southerners.
Retired food scientist grows new career and along the way, notes patterns in preferences for apples. Customers from Mid-Atlantic prefer Red Winesap, Midwesterners want Jonathans, Southerners lean toward Stayman, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Arkansas Black. And: Barbecue map splits South Carolina into flavor-favoring regions (click 'See also').
By Megan Sexton
The State (Columbia, S.C.) 2008-10-08 (entry)
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Hummus is transliteration of Arabic word for chickpeas.
Lebanese group wants EU to grant legal protection to hummus, tabbouleh, arak in same way it gave Greek milk producers exclusive use of the name feta in 2005, and similar to protection for France's claim over champagne and Italy's over parmesan.
By Robin Stringer and Jonathan Ferziger
Bloomberg 2008-10-07 (entry)
Three suspicious packages, heavily wrapped in white packaging and duct tape, found on the first-base side outside Philadelphia stadium before recent Phillies-Braves game. Police were called, stadium was evacuated (but batting practice continued). Bomb squad arrived, then exploded hot dogs left over from photo shoot of Phanatic's hot-dog launcher.
By Rich Hofmann and David Gambacorta
Philadelphia Daily News 2008-09-25 (entry)
Software developer plants tomato seedlings, harvests 10,990 ripe tomatoes and an obsession. But he's not alone. Backyard tomato gardening draws those in search for memory, or just a great dinner, says another gardener, who has turned his hobby into Tomatomania, a series of seedling sales that have drawn 12,000 to 15,000 shoppers.
By Mary MacVean
Los Angeles Times 2008-09-16 (entry)
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In the midst of sprawling, densely packed slum, an organic vegetable garden marked by sunflowers grows in Kenya, tended by a group of new farmers - young, unemployed men. Success was unlikely in area which just months before was site of ethnic clashes, street battles between riot police and protesters demonstrating over flawed presidential elections.
By Xan Rice
The Guardian (UK) 2008-09-20 (entry)
Those planning life of crime might consider a diet low in processed foods, says inventor of new fingerprinting technique. Perspiration of those who eat junk food contains more salt, and salty, sweaty fingerprints leave more telltale, corrosive impression on metal - or on bomb fragments. That leads, he says, to an indirect link between obesity and the chances of being fingered for a crime.
Science Daily 2008-09-16 (entry)
Before November vote, know where candidates stand on eating their greens. John McCain uses garlic powder on his ribs, and ordered calamari on baby greens. Barack Obama favors guacamole, lamb dishes, and mole - a sauce of many varied flavors and ingredients that combine to create something new. Recipe: Oaxacan red mole with chicken recipe (click 'See also').
By Devra First
The Boston Globe 2008-09-10 (entry)
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Now that water rights are returning to Native American community after 100-plus years, elders turn to real battle: reversing epidemic rates of diabetes, obesity, alcoholism by recapturing farming tradition. Upstream farms took water that had been used by tribe since 16th century; government replaced fresh foods with shipments of white flour, lard, canned meats and other processed foods.
By Randal C. Archibold
The New York Times 2008-08-31 (entry)
Nation's biggest 'dinner party for revolutionaries' under way in San Francisco, where tens of thousands have gathered. Organizers of Slow Food Nation hope that four-day event, with its foundation of gastronomic pleasure, health and fair labor stoked by political rallies and lectures, shows power of a new mainstream. And: The Healthy Food and Agriculture Declaration (click 'See also').
By Jane Black
The Washington Post 2008-08-30 (entry)
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In society that takes comfort in its politicians hunching over burgers from the Dollar Menu at fast-food outlets, Alice Waters, with her Edible Schoolyard, is truly subversive. She plants seeds of honest taste memories in every child. To become American, Slow Food must figure out how to make sure everyone can afford a lovely, local bunch of carrots.
By John Birdsall
San Francisco magazine 2008-09-01 (entry)
Arugula, an Italian salad green, is high in vitamins A and C.
Republican scorn of Barack Obama's preference for arugula is page from beef industry playbook, 'Real Food for Real People,' and example of health-consciousness separating candidate from common citizen. Voters also might note Dunkin' Donuts-Starbucks divide: John McCain is Starbucks cappuccino sipper. And: As iceberg lettuce sales slip, marketer tries nostalgia campaign (click 'See also').
By Joel Achenbach
The Washington Post 2008-08-23 (entry)
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Denver's National Western Stock Show, which brings ranchers, farmers together to match cows to stockyards for slaughter, market or shipping, drew about 674,000 visitors this year - 10 times more than expected for Barack Obama's acceptance speech.
By Steven K. Paulson
The Associated Press; The Guardian (UK) 2008-08-22 (entry)
In Queens, architects transform public school courtyard into urban farm, with 51 different vegetables planted in wide cardboard tubes and chickens clucking in their coop. Videos, fabric cutouts and sound recordings evoke piglets, cows and goats. Presence of food and green draws people, who pick and graze.
By April Dembosky
The New York Times 2008-08-19 (entry)
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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Backyard gardener works on three scales: With raspberries, boysenberries, he heads to the back door of Chez Panisse restaurant for that night's dinner. His wild mushrooms - often chanterelles - are sold at California's Monterey Market. And in Afghanistan, he helps restore orchards destroyed by war.
By Deborah K. Rich
San Francisco Chronicle 2008-06-28 (entry)
As Olympics draw closer, Beijing offers restaurants an official English translation of local dishes whose exotic and sometimes alarming names can leave foreigners unsure. But critics complain that Chinese traditions are lost in translation. Which would you order: a dish of 'steamed pullet' or 'chicken without sexual life'?
By Chris Buckley
Reuters 2008-06-18 (entry)
The South's dedicated bakers quake as White Lily's new corporate owners prepare to close historic Tennessee flour plant and move operations to Midwest. Already, they can tell a difference: New flour is gray and coarse and makes a denser product than fine and fluffy chlorine-bleached product.
By Shaila Dewan
The New York Times 2008-06-18 (entry)
Free pizza delivery disappears as fuel costs rise and residents reduce miles traveled. Car-oriented businesses worry as prices for houses far from jobs, transit drop: Could drive-through windows and on-the-go consumers become artifacts? For poorer half of nation's households, energy costs gobble close to 10 percent of budgets.
By Steven Mufson and David Cho
The Washington Post 2008-06-10 (entry)
Seventeen-pound gourmet watermelon auctioned in Japan for $6,100 as buyers compete for prestige of owning first ones of the year; buyer says he wants to support local agriculture. Biggest watermelon from the day was later priced at $5,945; other watermelons of the season will likely cost $188 to $283. Two cantaloupes last month sold for $23,500.
The Associated Press; The Star (Malaysia) 2008-06-06 (entry)
Obesity, beyond health risks including diabetes, joint pain, congestive heart failure, strokes, back pain, sleep apnea and depression, is also about root causes and society's denial. As a physician, let me 'not fail to see what is visible.' If obesity is not going to be confronted honestly in a medical setting, where will that difficult conversation take place?
By Jeremy Brown
The Washington Post 2008-05-25 (entry)
Banana price wars lead British grocers' competitive efforts as discount stores enjoy increase in affluent customers. Other temptations include reduced prices, 'extra free' deals and bogofs (buy one, get one free). Pasta, rice and other staples have risen as much as 80 percent; wholesale banana prices are up about 20 cents a pound since 2007.
By Lisa Bachelor
The Guardian (UK) 2008-05-25 (entry)
In poor urban neighborhoods, childhood obesity fueled by takeout joints serving fatty calories through bulletproof glass pass-throughs, absence of greengrocers, and culinary culture rich in fried foods and carbohydrates. One study showed that most students skipped breakfast, drank four sodas a day, ate at a corner store or had takeout twice a day, had a TV in their bedroom and did not have a grocery store in their neighborhood.
By Steve Hendrix and Hamil R. Harris
The Washington Post 2008-05-20 (entry)
Beyond short-term needs of water, food, shelter, refugees streaming out of central China's hills will need help in restoring farms and rebuilding communities after earthquake erased prosperous agriculture-based society. Ten million people were directly affected by the earthquake in some way across half a dozen provinces, with Sichuan hit the hardest, New China News Agency reports.
By Edward Cody
The Washington Post 2008-05-16 (entry)
As Mexico imports more corn from US, its reliance on outside supplies draws criticism from patriots and from those who see few benefits from NAFTA. As alternative, Oaxacan farmers, working communally, reforest and terrace to reclaim parched land, dig canals to recharge water tables and restore springs in hopes that people stay to work their farms.
By Elisabeth Malkin
The New York Times 2008-05-13 (entry)
Illegal immigrant farm workers may visit clinic or hospital if they are severely ill, but without insurance, much care comes from spiritual healers, home remedies and self-medication. Many Latino immigrants arrive healthy, but then develop US afflictions: diet-related disease, plus injuries from field work. Study shows medical costs of illegal immigrants was half as large as expected for population.
By Kevin Sack
The New York Times 2008-05-10 (entry)
To change public conversation about the food system, we must understand its current framing in journalism as a consumer issue, which obscures food systems and policy issues. Primary task of food reform movement is to introduce and sustain a Big Picture of the food system. Among others: reassign responsibility to the system, link our children's health to the food system we leave to them and to our stewardship of the Earth.
By Susan Nall Bales
FrameWorks Institute (pdf) 2006-04-01 (entry)
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Arty, cheeky, ironic, yet curiously refreshing, new quarterly magazine, Meatpaper, looks deep into meat and the endless variety of rituals, symbolism and taboos surrounding it to tell us a lot about our fellow humans.
By Peter Carlson
The Washington Post 2008-04-15 (entry)
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Gardening, and its connection to palate and soil, is timeless, whether you're planning to convince the new president to plant an edible garden (and a political statement) on the White House lawn, or laying your BlackBerry in a protected spot while you dig for authenticity. What's the same is the miracle, the buried gold, of tasting that first potato.
By Anne Raver
The New York Times 2008-04-17 (entry)
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To some pollsters, we vote what we eat. Dr Pepper and Chick-fil-A, Republican; Pepsi and Popeyes, Democratic. Then there's Oysters St. Claude, a crossover dish at Upperline restaurant in New Orleans. Says the creator: 'You have a respect and a yearning for the past, but a feeling like you want something new and exciting that says let's go all the way.
By Kim Severson
The New York Times 2008-04-16 (entry)
Mari Garcia's day of clam-digging yields barely enough for a meal.
Harvesting clams among the Colombian mangroves is no easy task - ranging calf-deep in mud, watching for snakes, scorpions, centipedes and biting fish. Worse, though are pollution, over-harvesting and drug-trafficking that threaten both food source and way of life for community of slaves' descendants that is unusual in its spirit of altruism and cooperation.
By Chris Kraul
Los Angeles Times 2008-04-14 (entry)
As California declares a state of emergency and appeals for disaster aid after Pacific salmon population collapse, fourth-generation fisherman/restaurateur and others worry whether they've caught their last salmon. At Bayside Marine, sales of beer and bait are dead. Bay Sportsmen fishing club gather to commiserate over the bleak picture; lamb, not salmon, was the main course.
By Julia Prodis Sulek
The Mercury News (CA) 2008-04-11 (entry)
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When working conditions are brutal, as they are in Antarctica, the morale of the camp rises and falls on the food served in the cafeteria. So chefs pore over magazines - Gourmet, Martha Stewart Living and others - then approximate the dishes based on mostly frozen, canned or dried foods shipped in once a year after an icebreaker clears the way.
By Daniel Zwerdling
National Public Radio 2008-04-06 (entry)
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Old-style farmers in Poland struggle as farming standards of EU exclude them and Smithfield and other factory farms push pork and milk prices down. Nearby abattoirs go out of business and local milk collection stations close, even as shoppers line up for locally grown, organic foods. About 22 percent of workforce is in agriculture; farms average about 17 acres.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
International Herald Tribune 2008-04-03 (entry)
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Two men apply long-term planning to their Ann Arbor deli, and become arbiters of taste in America's booming artisanal food industry and middlemen between artisan and consumer. With that long-term plan due up in 2009, Zingerman's owners are again taking the long view. Possibilities: a publishing house, microbrewery, a small hotel, fish and meat-smoking business.
By Micheline Maynard
The New York Times 2007-05-03 (entry)
College students mobilize to oppose McGill University's gradual switch from student-run cafes to Chartwells, a global food service company that is part of Compass Group. Eight student-run cafés on campus have been shut down since 2001.
By Katrien van der Kuijp
The McGill Daily 2008-03-31 (entry)
Slow Food is as "global" as McDonald's but networked, not hierarchical. It is a potent promotion machine that preserves for small elite the valuable goods and services that, as an economic system, globalization destroys. Tiny sacramental packages of gourmet products with irreducible rarity can't be sold to mass consumers because they don't scale up in volume. That's tough for capitalism but easy for a cultural network.
By Bruce Sterling
Metropolis magazine 2008-03-19 (entry)
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Kentucky Fried Chicken adds halal chicken to its Dearborn menu, joining McDonald's with its halal chicken McNuggets. Changes reflect growing demand for halal - what is permitted - products among metro Detroit's Muslims and echoes decades-ago evolution of growing Jewish population and acceptance of kosher into American food industry and vocabulary.
By Niraj Warikoo
Detroit Free Press 2008-03-30 (entry)
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Ready-made vineyards in Argentina lure those longing to fulfill wine-making fantasies. Investors buy plots, called vineyard estates or turnkey vineyards, then pay a management group an annual fee to plant and care for vines, then harvest and sell the grapes. Napa Valley land is $50,000 to $300,000 an acre; the same in Mendoza is $4,000 to $16,000.
By Ian Mount
The Wall Street Journal. (may require subscription) 2008-03-29 (entry)
More British eat convenience foods during the week to leave time for television-show leisure cooking during the weekend, says report. Thus people can "buy fresh" like Jamie Oliver, make sexy-looking meals a la Nigella Lawson, and cheat using ready-made ingredients like Delia Smith.
By James Meikle
The Guardian (UK) 2008-03-25 (entry)
All-you-can-eat seats merge gluttony and Major League Baseball, and sell seats in distant bleachers that once stayed empty. Braves have the fanciest menu; Diamondbacks have the most expensive section. Critics say that setting aside places for fans to gorge is irresponsible, considering diet-related disease epidemic.
By Michael McCarthy
USA Today 2008-03-06 (entry)
The way neighborhoods develop, including proximity to fast-food outlets, distance to supermarkets, residential density, mixed-use zoning, street connectivity, and access to recreational facilities means that urban planners play key role in healthy body weights of residents, Canadian researchers learn.
United Press International 2008-03-14 (entry)
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In borsch is the history that tied peasant to cosmonaut, the Urals to the Kremlin. The faint outline of the Tsarist-Soviet imperium glimmers in the collective steam off bowls of beet and cabbage in meat stock. Ukrainian peasant cuisine signifies a past where abundance alternated with dearth, and the community of domestic borsch-makers is a rebuke to political borders, order and standardization. For recipe, click 'See also.'
By James Meek
The Guardian (UK) 2008-03-15 (entry)
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Chefs complain as cherished Santa Monica Farmers' Market attracts big companies that hog the spring peas and other delicacies, then ship them out to upscale supermarkets or restaurants. But years ago, chefs supplanted home cooks by arriving earlier to get cream of the crop. Farmers point out they will take orders, but chefs prefer impulse buys.
By Russ Parsons
Los Angeles Times 2009-03-09 (entry)
The Bancroft Library, UC-Berkeley
The classic dairy cow, a Holstein, now is a curiosity in suburban Virginia.
Three-car garages face off with a cluster of weathered barns and silos as Virginia county's last dairy farm runs 24/7 family business that dates to 1847. The county is filled with subdivisions named after the farms they've replaced. Change mirrors national trend; in 28 years, number of dairy farms nationwide has decreased almost 75 percent, as operations consolidate.
By Kendra Marr
The Washington Post 2008-02-23 (entry)
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Hunters worry that farm/food bill negotiations will neglect Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to maintain wildlife habitat and protect water quality. Program, already challenged by high commodity crop and land prices, is credited with producing extra 2.2 million ducks and 13.5 million pheasants annually, protecting 170,000 miles of stream banks and keeping 450 million tons of topsoil where it belongs.
By Faith Bremner
Argus Leader (SD) 2008-03-01 (entry)
As real estate values soar, supermarkets are demolished, reducing inner city residents' access and consumption of fruits and vegetables and stoking high rates of diabetes. In New York, mayor is bringing back greengrocer pushcarts, and starting programs that encourage bodegas to stock low-fat milk and single-serving bags of fruits and vegetables.
By Robin Shulman
The Washington Post 2008-02-19 (entry)
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In this online food game, you're the waiter and restaurateur. You pick cute outfits, serve food and earn tips, buy diners, decorate them, and generally save the day. And as you attempt to multitask, you may find new respect for those who serve at restaurants.
By Marc Saltzman
USA Today 2005-08-01 (entry)
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Battling time limits on shopping and cooking, we are becoming our own food inspectors, using the Internet, balancing concerns of food safety, sustainability, cost and convenience, and making necessary trade-offs. Farmers, activists and retailers are positioning themselves as trusted sources. Costco, for instance, performed 34,365 tests for E. coli at its plant in 2007. The USDA performed 12,290 nationwide.
By Jane Black
The Washington Post 2008-01-30 (entry)
Retailers and manufacturers realize that ice is the year-'round hot snack and a tongue-numbing industry is created. Fans debate the best for crunching - Chewblets, Nugget Ice, Pearl Ice - but the shaved version, in a glass and with enough water to temporarily fuse the ice, is a classic.
By Ilan Brat
The Wall Street Journal 2008-01-30 (entry)
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Capitol's House cafeterias revamped to make meals more organic and local, and muttering about elitism and public funds begins. Lobbyists complain to Restaurant Associates, the food service provider, about presentation of their particular commodity, but the venture is making money. Senate cafe, running a $1.3 million yearly deficit, has no plans to go green.
By Marian Burros
The New York Times 2008-01-16 (entry)
With food occupying so much of our time and energy, it's natural that we take at least a chapter of our vocabulary from the subject. Consider, for instance, the avocado, from the Aztec ahuacatl, meaning 'testicle' because of its shape. This, and more from Anu Garg's new book, "The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two."
By Rebekah Denn
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) 2008-01-22 (entry)
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With internet access broadening, affluence moves into rural America, bringing a taste for Guinness, microbrews, $200 bottles of Barolo and organic markets. Developers buy land for up to 40 times its price as farmland, and tax bills shoot skyward. Only scenic areas are at risk; mining towns and Great Plains' farming populations are either steady or shrinking.
By Conor Dougherty
The Wall Street Journal 2008-01-19 (entry)
Great thinkers gather to ponder their list of 100 fruits and vegetables, with the task a simple one: Which are standouts from the last 50 years? Some answers were off course (a pork sausage, a table, a Scrabble game), but in short: lemons, Brussels sprouts, celery, tomatoes, pawpaws, baked beans, mushrooms, pomegranates and beets.
By Craig Brown
The Telegraph (Great Britain) 2008-01-12 (entry)
With food prices at a 17-year-high, we are changing our eating habits - buying cheaper ingredients, shopping at discount grocers and eating out less frequently. High prices are blamed on meat cravings of the growing middle class, weather-related crop disasters and the grain-fueled ethanol craze.
By Julie Jargon, David Kesmodel and Janet Adamy
The Wall Street Journal (may require subscription) 2008-01-04 (entry)
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Citing his own weight, Oklahoma City mayor challenges residents to lose a million pounds. But state's official meal components, named in 1988, include corn bread, sausage and gravy, chicken fried steak, barbecue pork, fried okra, squash, black-eyed peas, grits, corn, biscuits, strawberries and pecan pie.
By Sean Murphy
The Associated Press; Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2008-01-04 (entry)
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With fuel oil prices rising in rural Maine, life for elderly gets harder. Former workers, many in the state's food industries - fish, lobster, clams, sardines, potatoes, blueberries - are eating beans and biscuits and can't afford bingo at the VFW but figure that others are worse off.
By Erik Eckholm
The New York Times 2007-11-24 (entry)
From fish fry to fish fry, presidential candidates show solidarity with voters as they eat their way across America, but between events, it's a brutal procession of grilled chicken on wilted lettuce, soggy French fries and power bars.
By Jodi Kantor
The New York Times 2007-11-23 (entry)
Amateur historian finds 600-year-old recipe for beef-and-pork Thuringian sausages which are still symbols of Germany's cultural heritage and snacks at football matches; to view the original parchment, visit the Bratwurst Museum near the eastern city of Erfurt.
Reuters 2007-11-01 (entry)
Garlic lovers and coffee drinkers likely inherited tastes from their parents, say researchers at King's College London who studied food preferences of more than 10,000 sets of twins; news might predict limited success of government's effort to change children's diets.
By Rebecca Smith
The Telegraph (Great Britain) 2007-10-24 (entry)
Praying to the god of corn has its price: nitrogen waste in the waterways, taxpayer money feeding the industry, low-nutrition meat from animals that eat it, but it provides a fertile field of medical research, and in Mexico, growing corn is the only way one farmer ensures his wife's tortillas have the authentic taste.
By Hugh Dellios
Chicago Tribune 2007-09-09 (entry)
Crete, once home to ultra-healthful Mediterranean diet and religion-based fasting, is evolving to suit modern tastes, adding air-conditioned supermarket with apples from Chile - and a hospital that includes a wing for cardiac care, once a rarity on the island.
By Joseph Shapiro
National Public Radio 2007-09-08 (entry)
Inspired by environmental justice and groups that feed the homeless with surplus food, freegans in New York eschew capitalism and scavenge for groceries in the 50 million pounds of food garbage discarded annually; they favor D'Agostino's, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.
By Erika Hayasaki
Los Angeles Times 2007-09-11 (entry)
Mountaintop removal coal mining, with toxic leftovers shoved into streams, foul residents' water and kill the fish; study traces mining pollution to children's nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and shortness of breath; long-term effects unknown.
By Eric Reece
Orion Magazine 2006-01-01 (entry)
As Atlanta grows, community garden plots are feeding the burgeoning appetite for locally grown produce and mingling of cultures; advocacy group partners with administration to open parks for communal plots.
By Elizabeth Lee
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 0000-00-00 (entry)
Whether in miniscule back yards or near abandoned houses, urban farmers find every sunny spot and put it to use in effort to connect to their food; backyard chicken and egg trend in Salt Lake City is nothing short of coop d'etat.
By Chris Adamson
Salt Lake City Weekly 2007-08-23 (entry)
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Seeking the perfect tomato means eschewing perfectly formed orbs in favor of a weedy tangle of vines in which antique, thin-skinned heirloom treasures are hidden; this obsession is an art in the Merrimack Valley, where growers proliferate.
By Kristi Ceccarossi and Darry Madden
The Hippo (NH) 2007-08-23 (entry)
Despite day jobs, couple hunt, fish and gather about a third of the food they eat, using a nearly comprehensive mental map of Seattle foraging spots to relish what they call unbelievably bountiful land.
By Huan Hsu
Seattle Weekly 2007-08-08 (entry)
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Reasons for hunting, fishing are myriad, but many have to do with connection to nature, delicious food, and as remedies for cabin fever.
By Shawn Clark
Sheboygan Press (WI) 0000-00-00 (entry)
Program that last year brought 35,000 pounds of hunter-donated venison to low-income clients of southern Wisconsin food pantry endangered by budget cuts; testing the deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) reduced by 60 percent; experts predict explosion in deer population.
By Christina Beam
Reedsburg Times Press (WI) 0000-00-00 (entry)
Casting doubt on leisurely wining, dining image of ancient Rome, archaeologists unearth lack of tableware, lack of kitchens and lack of formal dining rooms in Pompeii, but they find miniature grills in abundance, author reports.
2007-06-18 (entry)
Escoffier would be shocked, but Hugo Liu, computer whiz at the MIT Media Lab is shaking up the food world with blend of artificial intelligence and obsession, running recipes through deconstruction computer program and sorting them by emotion.
By Regina Schrambling
Los Angeles Times (entry)
Some swear that Mr. Pastie's English beef-and-potato pies, now sold internationally, have magical powers; at the very least, they connect Gar Sleep, the 78-year-old company owner, to a large part of his family history.
By Sara Jerome
Pocono Record (entry)
Mushy sides aside, fried chicken from Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits is some of the best soul food in Boston - but does it matter that this tender, juicy, extra crunchy bird with a cayenne kick is from a chain, if it's a cool chain?
By Devra First
Boston Globe (entry)
It's the cooking pot that encouraged monogamy and led to smaller jaws, bigger brains, smaller guts, shorter arms, and longer legs, says a Harvard primatologist who believes that fire was used for heating food as long as two million years ago.
By William J. Cromie
Harvard University Gazette 2002-06-13 (entry)
With glasses of plum moonshine smoothing the way, writer eschews mushrooms but eats a bowl of pork fat soup made by cook who lives in the radioactive danger zone near Chernobyl; later, his stomach shows high radiation levels.
By Stefan Gates
BBC News 2007-05-11 (entry)
