I didn’t start this blog to talk about climate change, but it seems almost impossible to talk about fresh food these days without talking about climate. There are the obvious and oft-mentioned concerns about global warming, although the EPA says the U.S. food supply will probably be fine. (Here’s just one of thousands of accounts [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Environment'
Can’t take climate out of food production
May 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Environment, Food selection
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Buy local, buy fresh campaign
May 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, local food
One of the things I’m loving about this blog is it gives me an excuse to spend hours reading about food-related topics. Along the way I’ve been finding an array of cool resources. Here’s one: Now, if I did that right, you should be able to click on the banner and go to the foodroutes.org [...]
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Safe food supply under siege
April 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, Food selection, General
In the recent past, “food safety” meant taking fairly simple steps-washing hands, washing food, keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Nowadays, though, we’re hearing more and more about food that can’t be made safe by these steps. Congress has finally gotten into the act. To quote from a Reuters report on contaminated food [...]
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Eating local goes mainstream
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Environment, Food selection, local food
The trend of eating locally produced food seems to have begun somewhere around 2000, and its appearance on the cover of Time magazine last month as “Eating Better Than Organic” makes clear that the concept has gone mainstream. Although most of us can’t eat like a Californian when basing our diet on local foods, we [...]
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A manifesto for good food
April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, Farm Bill
As Michael Pollan writes, the massive Farm Bill has a huge effect on what we eat, and we as eaters need to pay attention.
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Greening up for Earth Day
April 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, local food
U.S. Earth Day (which is different from the date in the rest of the world, naturally) is this weekend, and Epicurious offers tips for being green in the kitchen. Here are a few more that I came up with: Have an Earth Dinner. I hadn’t heard of Earth Dinners until my sister Lori sent me [...]
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