Michael Pollan said "For the food movement," this may be "the most important election this year." Slow Food chef Kurt Michael Friese named it, The Mo...
Last week, Wal-Mart made news when it launched sustainable agriculture goals, for both the U.S. and emerging markets, focused on regional food systems.
It helps to have a personal relationship with your next meal
Sitting down to supper as a 4-year-old, I recall my sisters' ardent concerns about who w...
Organic milk production, long considered one of the fastest growing segments of US agriculture, has begun to slow in the past year as Americans tighten their belts.
The food-consuming public, especially in the United States, seems programmed for black-and-white oversimplification: low-fat diets, high-protein diets, French diet, chocolate, red wine, and so on.
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Maybe it's time for environmentalists prioritize do-it-yourself climate fixes instead of looking to politic...
We hear President Obama recently went on a two-week meditation retreat that wasn't made public. A source close to the President's mind confided some o...
The gating factor for huge sustainable change in the food production system, I conclude, isn't the availability of better food production and processing technology, but the perverse subsidies of the agriculture industry.
A Bank of America call center offered Burger King Whoppers to workers as a reward for hitting a quota, while peddling Bank of America products. Somehow this incident sums up everything that is wrong in America.
If we're trying to be careful with our dollars while still managing to eat, is our last surest option the drive-thru lane -- or are there other possibilities?
TED talks--the buzz for this once underground conference gets louder every year in its celebration of the creative, expanding our sense of the possibl...
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...
Author and food luminary Michael Pollan has been widely praised for his thoughtful inquiries into how our food is produced and what it means for our h...
TIME released their annual TIME 100 issue last week, naming the people who have most influenced our world, and author/journalist/food activist Michael...
Joan Dye Gussow - the matriarch of the modern-day food movement; the educator and activist who transformed the discussion about nutrition and health f...
As food issues come out of the foodie fringe and into the mainstream, moneyed special interests are beginning to fear for their bottom lines just a little bit.
This new food section is going to have a lot of articles about meat. And vegetables. Get used to it. You cannot do a driveby "meat is murder" strafing every time you see a recipe with muscle protein in it.
On a recent Sunday afternoon in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, over a hundred people gathered at the 6000-square foot Eagle Street Rooftop Farm to talk about t...
"Give a man a chicken and he will turn it into a black lump. Teach a man to grill a chicken and he will gloat all night." Meathead
Dad's chicken look...
As a kid, I spent hours flipping through my mother's butter-stained Betty Crocker cookbook from circa 1960. I'd sit and salivate at the sight of the s...
It's us real food rabble rousers who are subjecting the poorer nations of the world to imminent starvation, because we refuse to embrace genetically modified crops, toxic pesticides, and petroleum-based fertilizers.