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Heating Up the White House Kitchen

Tim Zagat | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

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Tim Zagat

At a time when many Americans are overweight, the trim First Family should serve as models of healthy eating balanced with regular exercise.

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The Complicated Psychology of Putting Good Food On the Table

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Cost, McDonald's, Sustainability, Food, Psychology, Alice Waters, Natural Foods, Convenience, Health, The Art of Simple Food, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

(cross-post from La Marguerite) Every night, the same question comes up, of what to make for dinner? Tonight's no different. No leftover in the fridg...

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Stirring The Pot With The Women's Food Movement

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Women, Slow Food, Michael Pollan, The Women's Food Movement, Carlo Petrini, Food, Omnivore's Dilemma, Twitter, Obama, Community Organizing, Alice Waters, Organics, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

(cross-post from La Marguerite blog) One casual comment made by a girlfriend during a recent dinner at my house, got me thinking, deep, about women, ...

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The President-Elect Has No (Culinary) Clothes?

Michael Nagrant | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama Spiaggia, President Obama, Tony Mantuano, White House Chef, Alice Waters, Homaro Cantu, Art Smith, Greg Christian, Obama White House Chef, Rick Bayless, Michael Pollan, Barack Obama, Grant Achatz, Food, Ramova Grill, Obama's Favorite Restaurants, Obama Spiaggia, Chicago News
Michael Nagrant

There were many reasons to like Obama, but as a food writer, I loved the fact that he was a Frontera/Topolobampo dude while Dubya was still choking on pretzels and chomping on Tex-Mex style burritos as big as his head.

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Food Fight Documents The Agri-Culture Wars

Kerry Trueman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Agribiz, Food Fight, Growing Power, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

The film Food Fight rounds up all the usual suspects to decry this rotten food system, as well as the true foot soldiers in the battle to make real food available to all of us, regardless of income or region.

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Complicated Times and the Beauty of Simplicity: A Week with David Tanis

Elissa Altman | Posted 10.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Home Cooking, Slow Food, A Platter of Figs, David Tanis, Chez Panisse, Food, Judy Rodgers, Alice Waters, Deborah Madison, Sarah Palin, The Art of Simple Food, Living News
Elissa Altman

Every year around this time, my partner and I pack up the car with too many books, cooking tools, and our very large dog, and we head north to centra...

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Lancing A Slow Boil

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Food, Alice Waters, Slow Food Nation, Green News
Kerry Trueman

There were some critical components of the good food movement missing at this high-profile, low-impact extravaganza. Clearly, VIP didn't stand for Very Inclusive Party.

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Slow Food Nation: Taking America Out To The Foodshed

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Food, Alice Waters, Slow Food, Slow Food Nation, Foodshed, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Our great-grandparents would be flabbergasted to learn that grass-fed milk bearing the local dairy farm's logo is now a rare luxury item available to only the affluent few.

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A Seedy Campaign In The Name Of Good Taste

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Alice Waters, Slow Food Nation, Eat the View, Kitchen Gardeners International, Victory Garden, Grow Your Own, Food, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Once, throwing tomatoes was a form of protest. Now, growing tomatoes is the way to just say no to the status quo. Isn't that a sad sign of the times?

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Going To The Greenmarket With Alice Waters

The New York Times | Kim Severson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Alice Waters, Green Market, Chez Panisse, Living News

Ms. Waters had agreed to spend a hot September day shopping with me at the Union Square Greenmarket and schlepping back to my first-floor apartment in...

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