Eat Different
February 27th, 2007 — article, localvore, produce
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/dining/28truf.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin
”The truffles from Chuckey are not the first American-grown Périgord truffles. They are, however, the first American grown black truffles to excite some of the country’s top chefs, like Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, John Fleer and Jonathan Waxman.”
October 8th, 2006 — article, food politics, localvore, sustainable
If ‘67 was the summer of love, this is the summer of food
The reasons behind this sudden consciousness-raising are myriad, but Pollan summarizes them most succinctly. In an e-mail, he says Americans are starting to understand “just how important the food issue is — how it is linked to energy and global warming (17% of our fossil fuel use goes to feeding ourselves); to environmental pollution (farming is the single biggest source of water pollution); health (obesity and diabetes turned attention to the way we produce food); world trade, the federal budget and the welfare of animals.”"Increasingly,” Pollan adds, “people recognize that the industrial food system is failing us — it is not keeping us or our world healthy. And there are alternatives.”
