Subscribe to Our Blog FeedIf you’ve been to a grocery store lately, it’s hard not to notice that pretty much everything is more expensive than it was just a year ago. It used to be that $20 was enough to buy a few fruits and veggies plus daily staples like milk, eggs and bread. But clearly that was back… Read more »
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One Bite at a Time
I just finished working on another one of my youth anthologies, and this time it was about fast food. I absorbed a ton of random information about the fast food industry (you really don’t want to know, I promise), but one thing that really stood out is while American culture has shaped the demand for… Read more »
Of Baguettes and Business Models
When it comes to starch, everybody has their go-to thing. Some people are pasta people, some people are potato people, some people are bread people, and some people are rice people. Me, I’m most definitely a bread person. Not much in the food world makes me happier than noshing on a piece of good crusty… Read more »
A Winner for Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner
I had lunch the other day with my friend Claude, who is French and grew up in Algeria. She’s a fantastic cook, to say the least, and one amazing smell or other is always wafting from her kitchen. Claude has taught me to make some of my favorite dishes (Afghan meatballs! Marengo cavour! ), so… Read more »
Growing a Movement
A couple days ago, I got an email from some folks I hadn’t heard from — or about — in quite a while, the Oakland Food Policy Council. The email asked me to sign a petition to the Oakland City Council encouraging them to act on reducing the barriers and restrictions on urban agriculture activities… Read more »
Sticky Business and Tomato Tattoos
When my GGO box arrives and I perform the weekly ritual of putting away the produce, the first thing I do is peel all the little sticky labels off the fruits and vegetables. Bar codes in the fruit bowl are not my idea of a pleasing still life, and it reminds me just how industrialized… Read more »
Spring Has Sprung … Right Into My Salad Bowl!
Spring has definitely sprung here in the Bay Area, and birds, bees and beasts alike are all atwitter over the booming odors and blooming colors. In my yard, the nasturtiums have started their annual stealth campaign to overtake the vegetable beds, while the stubborn dandelions that I’ve pulled up a dozen times are… Read more »
Take Time to Stop and Smell the Coffee
Here in the US, most people treat coffee as a commodity. We drink it on the go, whether quickly making it ourselves in the morning before rushing out the door, travel mug in hand, or hitting Starbucks or Peet’s to… Read more »
March Against Madness
Many of us know intuitively that genetically modified foods are unsafe to eat and that they are harmful to the environment and other living beings, but there could be a much bigger concern: they may actually threaten the stability of the world’s food supply. Most Americans don’t realize that they probably eat GM foods every… Read more »
Blood Sugar Pledge Magic
I was flipping channels on TV the other night when I ran across the annual public television pledge drive, featuring what was basically an hour-long infomercial for a new diet plan slash detox program that promises to “reset your health” in just ten days. The very-excited-to-be-here host, Dr. Mark Hyman, seemed almost evangelical as he… Read more »
