It's spring o'clock somewhere

There was a time - it was warmer out, and I lived in the city - when the idea of eating strictly local seemed, if not practical , exactly, t...

"My muffin-top is all that, whole grain, low fat" - Jenna Maroney

Ron Rosenbaum has written a contrarian defense of fat-the-ingredient . ( Via Mark Bittman , who so could have torn this apart, but must have...

"Close proximity to livestock"

Today I finally made it to the nearby  Cherry Grove Farm , which is the only sort of farm in the area of much interest in this produce-barre...

Food court imminent?

Mark Bittman wants ( link !) an indoor food market to go where the Fulton Fish Market once was. Not that this would much benefit me at this ...

Save the fusilli!

Wait, were you going to eat that? Stop! Don't you know that every single food ever is incredibly problematic - to the environment, to th...

Someone was right on the Internet

Chris Schonberger, Nick Schonberger, and Foster Kamer wrote this endlessly compelling if somewhat NY-centric  list of "20 Things Every...

Let them eat genetically-modified cake

So California won't be labeling its GMOs . I've been slightly following this, and it's a funny issue. On the one hand, those aga...

Never mind, never mind

-"My roots, I don’t dye. I used to dye the tips. I think they call it a balayage: it’s painted-on bleach that they put just into the en...

Convenience, onions

Recently, once again looking for cooking inspiration, I turned to the Bittman Minimalist videos. I got some ideas, but was mostly distracted...

Grows on trees

It's now accepted wisdom that modern children's ignorance as to where their food comes from is something in desperate need of a rem...

In offensiveness today

-From Slate France, the unsurprising connections between far-right politics (in France and Germany) and the local-sustainable food movement...

Beauty and ketchup

-In the guise of a beauty post, here's an interesting career trajectory narrative. What privilege can do, and what's required of th...

The myth of the "elite" diet

One reads a great deal about how these days, "we" (as in, the author and those like the author, in the author's estimation) ca...

"We have pocket guides for fish; finally, there’s one for humans."

It's almost as if Mark Bittman were reading WWPD . (He did once respond to something I wrote at Culture11, so it's not entirely imp...

"Most people have more pressing things to do with their time than actually find out whether the organic berries at the store were grown using sodium nitrate mined in South America that leached perchloride into surrounding waterways, which might interfere with the human thyroid gland if it seeps into drinking water."

Not-so-deep in the archives, PG and I got to debating the food movement. And I think we got sidetracked. The question, as far as I'm co...

The height of philanthropy

-There was a girl in my high school class whose stomach really did go in, or at least not poke out, even when she sat down. Perfect skin and...

(Cough)

Quite a weekend. Bisou is now a year and a day old, and groomed. Not matted in the least, thanks to daily brushing and combing, neither of w...

Fish in their entirety

Because I'm suggestible , or because inside this years-old-Uniqlo-clad exterior lies a foodie-hipster, the other night I roasted whole f...

Women, eggs

-Sometimes, without knowing precisely what goes on at one, I'll announce my desire to run off to a spa. It sounds pleasant, right? Maybe...

A contrarian food-movement takedown

There's a new book out I'm intrigued by, even though what I know of it is that the NYT reviewer, Dwight Garner, hated it . Tyler Cow...