January 2010
4 posts
Foodie Fight
A public squabble unearths the biggest fault line in food: Class.
What do America’s poorest, and particularly the immigrants who pick our food, want for their kids? What do they deserve? And what, if anything, do the sustainable foodies have to offer them? You wouldn’t know it from all the name-calling and hand-wringing going on, but those are the questions peering up from yet...
School garden programs get dissed →
All kinds of controversy brewing over this Caitlin Flanagan piece from the current Atlantic Monthly. Every food blog seems to be rallying defenses for Alice Waters’ school garden movement, like: Corby Kummer at the Atlantic’s Food Channel; Ed Levine over at Serious Eats; Tom Philpott at Grist; and Elizabeth Gettleman over at Mother Jones. Hmmm. Time to do some thinking.
Obesity epidemic slows
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For good measure: Obesity may be leveling off.
Obesity now poses as great a threat to quality of... →
We knew it was coming, and here it is: Obesity begins to outpace tobacco as a health problem.