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Sustainable Table More on the White House front - Iron Chef is challenging executive chef Cristeta Comerford to a fresh food cook-off. Michelle Obama reveals the secret ingredient.
www.nytimes.com
At the White House, politics, cooking and popular culture collide.
Sustainable Table Great article on White House chef Sam Kass. Not only is he cute, but he's way into local food, school nutrition and helping Michelle Obama in her crusade for healthy, fair food.
www.nytimes.com
When Sam Kass is not grilling fish for the first family, he is pondering the details of child nutrition legislation, funding streams for the school lunch program and the best tactics to fight childhood obesity.
Sustainable Table Two more deaths from E. Coli. Very sad that Big Beef is getting away with this.
www.nytimes.com
Two people, one from New Hampshire and another from upstate New York, have died after eating ground beef that may be responsible for an E. coli outbreak.
Sustainable Table Great review of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, "Eating Animals" in The New Yorker. I'll have to check this one out, although I'm not sure I'll agree with all his points. Has anyone out there read it yet?
www.newyorker.com
BOOKS review of “Eating Animals” (Little, Brown; $25.99) by Jonathan Safran Foer. American love animals. Americans also love to eat animals. How is it that Americans, so solicitous of the ...
Sustainable Table For all you grass-fed beef lovers out there, Nicolette Hahn Niman's response to recent reports linking meat production and climate change.
www.nytimes.com
Singling out meat-eating as harmful to the environment is overly simplistic. Encouraging judicious choices for all types of food is a better approach.
Sustainable Table The Economist pointing out that we are one of the most dangerous developed nations to eat in. What great press for the U.S.
www.economist.com
Bar codes that let shoppers trace their food back to the field
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On a lighter note, a new study shows that junk food is as addictive as Heroin!
Apparently if you eat enough if it, it may alter your perception of food forever, but that claims needs further investigation.
www.grist.org
With the rumors swirling that Michelle Obama is a big fan of former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating, it seems reasonable to check in on the science behind an
Sustainable Table The notorious Glenn Beck reports on Meatless Monday. It is amazing that people take this guy seriously. He can't even get his multiples and plurals correct. I mean, heaven forbid that Americans eat something other than steak once a week!
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Interesting
Debate on The New York Times, "Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?" Both sides make some strong points although I tend to swing towards the
anti-GMO side. What do you think?
roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com
What will drive the next Green Revolution?
Sustainable Table Earlier this month, I believe I mentioned that Baltimore schools are going Meatless on Monday. There has been some skeptisism from certain parties stating that children are being "deprived of protien". John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future responds to this ridiculous claim with an interesting post.
www.livablefutureblog.com
It is disappointing to see members of the media spread misinformation due to their own ignorance, gullibility, or, worse, disinterest in digging for the truth