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Thomas Keller's Disappointing Stance on Sustainable Cooking

Nick Wiseman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Farm-to-Table, New York Times, Michael Pollan, The French Laundry, Thomas Keller, Sustainable Food, Locavore, Food News

It's not Thomas Keller's responsibility to help save the planet (though many chefs have taken on this calling with great ambition). But focusing solely on the aesthetics and disclaiming any other responsibility altogether is a cop-out.

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10 Ways To Pretend You're A 'Foodie'

Anna Brones | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Foodie Humor, Farmers Market, Food, Artisan, Food Snobs, Mason Jars, Hipsters, Slidepollajax, Foodies, Food Writing, Locavore, Food News

As much as you cringe at the word "foodie" - and don't we all? - there are moments that it's worth pretending you're one.

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My Year as a Killatarian

Stephen Hren | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Killatariansim, Veganism, Fake Meat, Vegetarianism, Vegan Diet, Vegan, Vegetarian Diet, Meatless, Locavore, Locavores, Food News

Have you ever killed your dinner? I did a few times in the last year, but I don't think I'm going to bother anymore.

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The One True Dead Food & Dining Trend

Food & Wine | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Food Trends, Farm to Table, Locavore Movement, Farm to Cafeteria, Dead Food Trends, Frank Bruni, Farm to School, Locavore, Food News

[T]here is a ubiquitous phrase that we're very ready to say good-bye to: farm-to-everything. (Credit to Frank Bruni, the New York Times's newest Op-Ed...

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Making Memorial Day Cookouts Mouthwatering For Vegetarians Too

Honest Cooking | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Honest Cooking, Vegetarian Food, Veggies, Bbq, Farmers Markets, Grilling, Memorial Day Recipes, Vegetarianism, Locavore, Food News

there is no need to panic if you find out a vegetarian is attending your Memorial Day bar-b-que. We are regular people, and we eat lots of food.

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Is Eating Local A Waste Of Time?

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Eating Locally, Eating Local, Locavores, Locavore, Eating-Local-Food, Green News

It is a veritable maxim of the modern environmental movement: To help heal the planet, eat local. If only it were that simple. A growing numbe...

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'Cottage Foods' Proposal Approved By Senate

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Colorado Senate, Dawn D. Thilmany, Homemade Foods Proposal, Gail Schwartz, Colorado Cottage Foods Proposal, Cottage Foods Proposal, Locavore, Denver News

A new cottage industry allowing Colorado farmers to sell foods prepared in home kitchens, rather than commercial kitchens, took a big step forward as ...

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Slow Food, Caribbean Style

Joseph Satto | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Organic Farming, Organic Gardening, Local Food, Locavore, Antigua, Slow Food Movement, Hermitage Bay, Hermitage Bay Antigua, Food News

Discovering Hermitage Bay in Antigua shattered a few preconceived notions I held about the slow food movement. I assumed it primarily preached in our little urban bubbles. I'm happy to say, I was dead wrong.

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Artisanal LA: Shawna Dawson's Local, Sustainable, and Handmade Wonderland

Alexis C. Jolly | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Local Food, Sustainable Food, Shawna Dawson, Artisanal La, Meals on Wheels, La Around Town, La Food Festival, Locavore, Mud Baron, Los Angeles News

Unlike your run-of-the-mill socialite, Dawson is typically the one planning the fête -- currently, this weekend's Artisanal LA, which will bring together nearly a hundred local and sustainably oriented vendors.

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Lindy and Grundy -- Two Women Butchers Take L.A. by Storm

Jay Weston | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Erika and Amelia, Offal, Lindy & Grundy, Butcher Shop, Organic Meat, Organic Food, Butchering, Pastured Poultry, Locavore, Local Farmers, Los Angeles News

I just ate the tastiest roast chicken I have eaten in years, perhaps ever. And I've eaten roasted fowl all over the world. I purchased this bird at Lindy and Grundy, Local Pastured and Organic Meats.

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The Destruction and Rebirth of Joan Gussow's Famous Garden

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gardening, Local Food Movement, Joan Gussow, This Organic Life, Sustainable Food, Joan Gussow Garden, Environmentalism, Locavore, Home Gardening, Food News

Joan Gussow is known as the matriarch of the local food movement. One year ago this week, Joan's garden was devastated by a massive storm and flood.

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New York City's Biggest Rooftop Farm

Jake Rosenwasser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Food, Organic Food, Queens, Urban Farming, The Brooklyn Grange, Rooftop Farms, Rooftop Gardens, Green Living, Locavore, Green Roofs, New York News

This farm in the middle of urban Queens isn't just about ecological idealism. Here, one city gardener is trying to merge environmental sustainability with fiscal sustainability.

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Woman Leaves Law Firm To Teach Unserved Kids About Healthy Eating

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Small Business America, Purple Asparagus, Melissa Graham, Good Eating Award, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Impact, Locavore, Chicago News

Six years ago, Melissa Graham was at a crossroads. She had made partner at McDermott Will and Emery, but to get to the next level of partner would req...

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WATCH: How To Eat Like A Local In San Francisco

GloboMaestro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salumi, Concierge, Markets, Insider, Antonio Barrios, Travel News, Travel, St. Regis San Francisco, Locavore, Globomaestro, Local Food, Farmers Market, Local Food Movement, St. Regis, Hotel, Salami, San Francisco, Expert, Pork, Ame, Boccalone, Video, Travel News

Is there a city in America that cares more about locally-sourced food than San Francisco? If so, Antonio Barrios, chief concierge at The St. Regis ...

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How Your Church Can Support Local Food Movements

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, USDA Nutrition Programs, Organic Food, Soup Kitchen, Farmers Markets, Presbyterian Church, Local Farmers, Food Politics, Urban Garden, Combating Homelessness, Local Food Movement, Slow Food Movement, Urban Agriculture, Locavore, Religion News

Food is at the heart of our practice together. So it's important to remember that what we put on our tables can be an act of faith.

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Amid Holiday Glitter, Food Shines As A Genuine Article Of Faith

Pythia Peay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Sanctuary, Community Gardens, Eve Jackson, Slow Food Movement, Holiday Commercialism, Jungian Archetypes of Food, Eating Disorders, Industrial Agriculture, Holiday Cooking, Organic Food, Sustainable Farming, Factory Farm Animals, Michelle Obama's Community Garden, Holiday Food, Locavore, Religion News

That food can root us in the past while offering hope for the future seems proof of its power to transform. Most of us have experienced the bliss of biting into a dish so divine it thrills alive the soul as well as the body.

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Why Brooklyn Needs to Be Careful

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enrico Caruso, Ebinger's, Randazzo's, Williamsburg, Avenue U, Brooklyn, Artisans, Hipsterism, Real Brooklyn Food, Fauxcavore, Locavore, Brennan & Carr, New York News

The often dangerous wasteland that was Brooklyn in the 1970s has all but disappeared, replaced by a population that is, in fact, traditional to the borough from its earliest existence: craftspeople.

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Killing, Blessing, And Eating Shabbat Dinner

Sue Fishkoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thanksgiving 2010, Locavore, New Food Movement, Kosher Nation, Kosher Shechting, Hazon Food Conference, Kosher Slaughter, Sue Fishkoff, Kosher Food Movement, Jewish Food Movement, Locavore Movement, Locavore Food, Religion News

I was at an organic turkey farm an hour and a half north of San Francisco with two dozen other volunteers preparing what would become the main entrée for the Hazon Food Conference's Shabbat dinner later that week.

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Marcus Samuelsson Previews the Red Rooster -- Interview With the Chef

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Red Rooster, Marcus Samuelsson, Restaurant, Epicurious, Locavore, Marcus Samuelsson Red Rooster, Food News

This new Harlem bistro will open next month just a block from Sylvia's on Lenox Avenue. It is going to be a fusion experience that will both challenge and delight.

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The Local Food Debate Heats Up

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Miles, James McWilliams, Stephen Budiasky, Grist, Food and Water Watch, Local Food, Corporate Consolidation, New York Times, Elanor Starmer, Locavore, Food News

"Eat local" has become such a commonly cited slogan that it's starting to lose its punch. You know an idea is getting shop-worn when major food retail...

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Yummy Inspiration! Two New Whole Foods Cookbooks to Get You Cooking!

Starre Vartan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chefs, California, Healthy, Recipes, Cooking, Food, Whole Foods, Locavore, Green News

In the Green Kitchen by Alice Waters is not a traditional cookbook, but focuses on what was missing from the aspiring conscious chef's shelf: A technique-driven volume that includes how to's, from the prosaic to the intimidating.

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The Myth of the Rabid Locavore

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Sustainability, Eat Local, Stephen Budiansky, Ecology, Locavore, Farmers Markets, Budiansky Food New York Times, Smarter Ideas, Food News

Stephen Budiansky has stuffed together another flimsy, flammable straw man out of boilerplate anti-locavore rhetoric on the New York Times op-ed page, with the patronizing title Math "Lessons For Locavores."

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10 Ways Geolocation Is Changing the World (PHOTOS)

Max Gladwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foursquare, Bp, Gowalla, Dehood, Android, Geolocation, Mapquest, Neighborgoods, Layar, Waze, Greenopia, Locavore, Iphone, Oilspill, Momentfeed, Applications, Blasterous, Stickybits, Causeworld, Googlemaps, Trapster, Blockchalk, Oilreporter, Lbs, Slidepollajax, Technology News

Location technologies are transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world. From the global to the local, here are 10 ways geolocation is a positive force for good.

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Slaughter and the City

Ari Solomon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Veganism, Factory Farms, Animal Slaughter, Michael Pollan, Meat, Humane Slaughter, Slow Food Movement, Locavore, Healthy Living News

I've noticed a new trend among urbanites. It goes something like this: city types read Michael Pollan, see Food Inc., or simply get intrigued by words...

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NYC's Newest & Biggest Rooftop Farm Opens for Summer: The Brooklyn Grange (VIDEO)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Local, Ben Flanner, Brooklyn, Green, Food Curated, Urban Agriculture, Locavore, Nyc, The Brooklyn Grange, Food News

This 40,000 square foot farm (just under an acre) is lush with greens, cabbage, tomato plants, corn crops, carrots, swiss chard, various herbs and root vegetables.

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