Comments on: Food Matters with Mark Bittman, part 2 (video)

By: Friday Viz Post: Cooking Up A Story « Means of Production

Friday Viz Post: Cooking Up A Story « Means of Production — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:30:43 +0000

[...] two favorite clips— part of a Mark Bittman interview and a short documentary about an organic dairy farmer— are up on the VIZ site. Here are two [...]

By: chowmama | Weekly Digest

chowmama | Weekly Digest — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:07:08 +0000

[...] Matters—part 2 of Cooking Up a Story’s interview with Mark Bittman, where he talks about why we need to eat more sustainably and [...]

By: yogacowgirls

yogacowgirls — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:50:02 +0000

It seems that we are all starting to wake up to the fact that our diets are too heavy on the meat. Even the current Reader’s Digest has articles in it suggesting that meat should be reserved for only one meal a day. I would agree with Bittman that it almost doesn’t matter where the broccoli came from if you choose it over meat, whether organic or not.

By: Albert Kaufman

Albert Kaufman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:24:24 +0000

Great interview, important message, thank you!

By: sarah gilbert

sarah gilbert — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:05:49 +0000

after watching this video, I’m curious to know how his book differs from Pollan’s ‘In Defense of Food’; it seems that many of the statistics they quote are similar. it’s clear that, at the very least, they’ve read each others’ work closely. I think somewhere I heard that Bittman is “applied Pollan” and I wonder if you would recommend reading Bittman’s book if you’ve already read ‘In Defense of Food’ and other similar books (‘Animal, Vegetable, Miracle’ comes to mind). I also wonder if Bittman is giving up too easy? is he resigned to a world in which people aren’t going to eat food in season, aren’t going to stop eating fast food, and is just trying to wheedle them to please, oh please, eat just one more vegetable a week? I agree wholeheartedly with his goals: but he seems almost discouraged.

By: Megan Gray

Megan Gray — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:55:44 +0000

Mark Bittman is great. His thought on broccoli vs. hamburger is an excellent one. Eat your veggies people!! (myself included)