Am Food. Will Not Travel.

Today’s NYTimes story, When Local Makes it Big, is a great story that shows just how removed Americans are from their food. I mean really: if anyone out there truly believes that because Frito-Lay shows them a farmer on television (sadly most people have never seen a farmer!) that Lay’s cares about farmers, or about [...]

Will Barack Eat American?

I hate the word “foodie.” For me it conjures up images of retirees on a food- and wine-driven bus tour through Tuscany, or sitting around at one acclaimed restaurant talking about a meal they had at another. (Snore.) When Ed Levine asked in his post on Serious Eats yesterday about whether Barack Obama will listen [...]

The Last Politics

Yesterday’s article by Laura Miller in Salon was at once totally inspiring and a little bit dispiriting. Dispiriting because between Miller’s story and the Mark Bittman book she writes about, I feel like I don’t need to write another word. I’ve been passionate about sustainability for years—since before I knew there was a name for [...]