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The Biggest Election Showdown is WHERE?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeffrey Smith

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...

Wal-Mart Promises Local Food, While Big Ag Gears Up for a Fight

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Paula Crossfield

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.

Meat, greet, eat

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Ellen Snortland

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...

Eco Etiquette: Is Organic Milk A Hoax?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jennifer Grayson

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.

What Can Nutrition Science Teach Us About Climate Response?

Wood Turner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Wood Turner

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.

Weekly Mulch: Would You Eat Bugs to Fight Climate Change?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger Maybe it's time for environmentalists prioritize do-it-yourself climate fixes instead of looking to politic...

My Mind Has A Mind Of Its Own

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Michael Sigman

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...

Our Food Supply: The Next Frontier

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Francine Hardaway

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.

Bank of America: The Whopper Giveaway

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Don McNay

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.

Cheap Protein: Are You Stuck in the Drive-Thru Lane?

Chris Elam | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Chris Elam

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: Best Author Appearances Of The Past, And This Year's Line Up (VIDEOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

Slaughter and the City

Ari Solomon | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Ari Solomon

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...

Mother's Day: 7 Of My Favorite Books As A Mom And A Publisher (PHOTOS, POLL)

Lena Tabori | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Lena Tabori

These books cover what I love as a mom and have published for Welcome Books--for mothers new and old.

Michael Pollan Immortalized As Heirloom Tomato; Needs Even Watering

Josh Friedland at The Food Section | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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...

A Food Hater's Manifesto

Natalia Brzezinski | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Natalia Brzezinski

According to Pollan, the "Western diet"-- overprocessed and chemically-saturated food -- is not only making us fat, it is killing us.

Michael Pollan Makes TIME 100 List, Alice Waters Says She Was 'Pollanized' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

TIME released their annual TIME 100 issue last week, naming the people who have most influenced our world, and author/journalist/food activist Michael...

From Grassroots to Mountaintops

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Liz Neumark

Joan Dye Gussow - the matriarch of the modern-day food movement; the educator and activist who transformed the discussion about nutrition and health f...

Meat Or No Meat: Tell Us What You Think And Why

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Meathead

There are books on both sides of the issue, but we would like to see point and counterpoint side by side. We would also like to debunk some myths.

Will Big Ag Continue its Pointless Crusade Against Real Food on PBS?

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Kurt Michael Friese

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.

Vegans Starting to Sound Like Beck and Limbaugh

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Meathead

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.

Kids Radically Changing the Food System

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Paula Crossfield

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...

Michael Pollan On Jonathan Safran Foer, Food Trucks, Nose-To-Tail, Salt, Sugar, His Last Three Meals, And More In Exclusive Interview (PHOTOS)

Colin Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Michael Pollan On Safran Foer, Nose-To-Tail, Food Trucks, Salt, Sugar His Last Three Meals, And More (PHOTOS)

Father's Day Gifts: The Best Barbecue and Food Books for Dad

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Meathead

"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...

In Defense of Betty Crocker

Cristen Conger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Cristen Conger

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...

The Faces of Fresh: Sustainable Saints, or Loam-Loving Luddites?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Kerry Trueman

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.