Want to join Slow Food but can’t afford the $60 membership fee? You’re not alone. During the month of September, Slow Food ran a campaign where a contribution of any amount would make you a member for a year (or renew your membership). If you missed the window, now’s your chance–the organization is continuing the [...]
Food Writing Resources
I put together a list of food writing resources to give to those who came to the food writing workshop at the Cultivating Food Justice conference today, and I figured it would also be helpful to post it for the general internets to find.
Food Writing Resources
Books
Allen, Gary. The Resource Guide for Food Writers. Oxford, [...]
Local in 20 Minutes
I’ve got two words for you tonight: Spaghetti Carbonara. Quick, easy, and (best of all when you are dishwasher-less) it only dirties two pots. Plus, I think it costs all of $5 for two, and that’s with some amazing pastured eggs and Knight Salumi pancetta.
Just look at the eggy goodness:
As for recipes, I went with [...]
Wendell Berry Wisdom
Flipping through some old magazines last night, I came across Wendell Berry’s essay, “The Pleasures of Eating,” from his 1990 What are People For?. I read it at lunch today, then spent the entire afternoon hoping it was online somewhere so I could share it. Low and behold, here it is.
I’m not going to quote [...]
Death by Bacon
Not to rain on anyone’s bacon parade, but I did a little research the other day, and bacon is linked to NO FEWER THAN 13 types of cancer. We’ve got:
bladder
stomach
prostate
colon
lung
oral
pharyngeal
laryngeal
esophageal
small intestinal
pancreatic
large intestinal
brain
Yes, bacon can give you brain cancer. Not that one serving of bacon explosion is going to kill you, but if, say, you’re contemplating [...]
Salmonella to America: Wake Up!
It takes something I’m really frustrated with to get me out of an (ahem) three-month blogging lag, and this morning, the Washington Post provided it. (Which, ah, I knew because Huffington Post twittered it…have I mentioned that half the reason I haven’t been blogging is because I’ve been deceiving myself into thinking twitter posts phoned [...]
woot woot!
california cheese represent! also, props to wine.woot for telling the tale of the producers behind the cheese…
Slow Food Nation Videos Online!
I have to say, the one major disappointment I had during the Slow Food Nation event over Labor Day weekend was that they were not broadcasting the sold-out panel discussions via webcast. Good, clean, fair food for all is a noble goal, but when your “for all” goal and your “for X-number of ticket holders” [...]
Pollan Manifesto and Stilton Dreams
As I once learned from a fellow homebrewer, every good homebrewing session involves cheese. Cheese, and some crackers or bread, and something savory like summer sausage or salami. Snacking during the multi-hour homebrew process is almost as enjoyable as throwing hops into a boiling pot of wort.
Yesterday’s homebrew session followed an earlier-in-the-week stop at Taste [...]
the week of no camera batteries and…
homebrew cooking!
What a shame they had to coincide. You’d think after yesterday’s pizza-sans-photographs dinner I would have secured a few AA’s today, but the sun was shining when I got home and I couldn’t resist taking the bike for sunset spin.
So it was unfortunate when, after rushing inside to both beat the 7 pm darkness [...]