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Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
May 1, 2012 08:05 -
Documenting the Urban Farming Boom
April 30, 2012 07:04 -
Mo Rocca Learns to Cook from our Elders: My Grandmother’s Ravioli
February 19, 2012 08:02 -
Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12
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A Small Scale Integrated Livestock Farmer
May 16, 2012 04:05 -
How to Make Homemade Butter from Farm Fresh Milk (video)
May 15, 2012 04:05 -
The Raw Milk Debate: Thorny Issues of Food Safety, Food Rights, and Public Health
May 14, 2012 04:05 -
The Pleasures of Eating Home Cooked Meals
May 11, 2012 04:05 -
A Mom Teaches Her Children the Importance of Food
May 10, 2012 04:05 -
in the Kitchen with Chef Lisa Schroeder: Mother’s Chicken Soup and More
May 9, 2012 04:05 -
Chicken and Biscuits Recipe
May 9, 2012 03:05
Whiskey We’ve Got, But Where’s the Meat?
This article reprinted courtesy of Global Voices Venezuela is one of the principal oil-exporting countries of the world. However, petroleum is not edible and, lamentably, Venezuela’s national food industry is not able to feed its population. So Venezuela is, since its economy stopped having an agricultural focus at the beginning of the 20th century, a [...]
A New Kind of Co-op: GROWN Locally
This Article From Our Friends at Local Harvest Nearly a decade ago, an idea was born in a field outside of Decorah, Iowa. After a field day at Sunflower Fields Farm, several farmers wondered if they could band together, coordinate their marketing efforts, and sell their products to local institutions under a single name. They [...]
Chanterelles: In Search Of The Elusive Mushroom
Courtesy of our friends at Edible Portland Magazine Fall 2007 Issue: In Search of the Elusive Mushroom By Ellen Jackson Chanterelles grow exuberantly in the Northwest, and the golden (or yellow) variety is easy to find and identify—if you can persuade someone in the know to tell you where exactly to look. Wild mushroom hunting [...]
Sticker Shock: Organics and healthier foods are more available, but not everyone can afford them.
Edible Portland Magazine: Winter 2008 Issue by Kevin Allman In 2007, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski and several members of Congress took the “food stamp challenge”: shopping and eating on a $21 per week budget that represented the average American’s food-stamp allotment. Kulongoski and his fellow politicians met with limited success; some managed the challenge, while [...]
Janine Benyus: 12 Sustainable Design Ideas from Nature
This presentation is a special treat. For those who may not know about the TED Talks, the TED organization presents ongoing talks from the thought leaders of our world. These are people who are not only brilliant, but who devote themselves to solving big problems, often challenging the conventions of our time. In this talk [...]
Ratatouille
From the magicians at Pixar, comes a new animated feature: Ratatouille. Imagine the special challenges of creating food out of whole cloth using computer software (CG), that looks real enough to be enticing to the human eye (and stomach). This clip offers a look inside the high end movie-making world, combining human artistry (the craftsman) [...]
Restaurant Reviews: Why I Blog Them
I write the blog, Portals and KM which covers web 2.0 during the week and food, art, and music on the weekends. I have been doing a series on restaurant reviews by friends who live, or have lived, in different cities. There are many more in the cue. I have commissioned reviews in Rome, Mumbai, [...]