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I recently watched Food, Inc., with my ten-year-old daughter, who just finished reading the young reader’s version of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The documentary, based on Pollan’s book and the work of Eric Schlosser, was well made and highly accessible to her. It was funny to hear her finally comment, “What’s up with all [...]

Friday List of Links

Wow – what a novel idea: a TV show that is trying to promote healthy snacking and reduce childhood obesity! I almost wish we watched television…. Kudos to Disney Playhouse for  Tasty Time with ZeFronk - I checked out their snack recipes and found them pretty good, with a minimum of processed ingredients.
Still have time to fit in [...]

Friday List of Links

Out this weekend – can’t wait to see it: Julie & Julia, starring one of my favorites, Meryl Streep (Our Lady of Foreign Accents) as the indomitable Julia Child. Of course, I can’t get the picture of SNL’s bloody spoof out of my mind….
Nutrition Data posts on a report on carbohydrate intake and obesity. I [...]

Friday List of Links

Two posts and articles to consider, falling on either end of the real food debate spectrum:
Check out Kurt Michael Friese’s comments on Slow Food’s “Time for Lunch” campaign on Civil Eats: it contains some valuable background information on the movement and a call to action in the form of a Labor Day Eat-In.
And I have to take [...]

Planning ahead: School lunch is around the corner!

Still trying to get across town to the asian market, but in the meantime a very important quick link for those of us with kids and those of us who care about all kids: sign up to support Slow Food’s Time for Lunch campaign, which promotes  small changes to the Child Nutrition Act, which is up for [...]

On the road again…

Wish I could claim it’s a voluntary chef’s vacation, but this week begins our family’s relocation from CA to MI, almost 2 weeks of enforced eating out, something I dread heartily. Hoping to find some healthy surprises along the way…. I’ll be posting occasionally, but new recipes are unlikely until after July 4th weekend.
Thanks to [...]

Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

The newest bill to protect consumers from contaminated food has been introduced in the House: it’s call the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, and like all bills, it seems, it’s many pages long (text is available online from the Library of Congress). I’m desperately trying to find the time to actually read it or talk [...]

Properly scaled change

Coming as it did after the “Day of Service,” President Obama’s inaugural speech continued this train of thought (and action) by invoking duty, humility, restraint, and responsibility along with hope, virtue, and truth. (I was amused by the coverage of the speech because much of the media was scrambling to identify the line that would be [...]

Election’s over…

…but your next chance to vote may be sooner (and more often) than you think! Check out this excellent article on how to ”Vote with Your Fork” on SparkPeople. Liza Barnes and Nicole Nichols write:
The decisions we make every day—what to eat, where to shop, how to commute—may seem small, but they send a clear message about [...]

Not for Parents Only!

I just got this link to a TED talk by Ann Cooper, the Director of Nutrition for the Berkeley Unified School District from Peggy Curry at Growing Great, and the video deeply impressed me. Don’t read the summary article – it doesn’t anywhere near do it justice, so I highly recommend you make the time [...]