From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Tomato as Stimulus

September 30, 2009

Today I real­ized that peo­ple really enjoy talk­ing about inter­est­ing and unique food. Three times we were stopped by strangers who wanted to dis­cuss the grotesquely beau­ti­ful tomato we had in hand. Grown here in Carls­bad at Val­divia Farms, the tomato elicited the broad­est smiles, and sto­ries about the ups and downs of back­yard gardening. […]

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Come Join Our New Facebook Group

September 27, 2009

Just started it here: http://bit.ly/foodisculture-FBgroup

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Refreshment Break: One Minute Apple Pie

September 27, 2009

one minute Apple pie from Animi on Vimeo.

Tagged as: refreshmentbreak, video

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

September 27, 2009

Fallen ani­mal as star of the plate #
It’s Autumn! Flex food and take a date heir­loom apple hunt­ing! http://su.pr/2MHgaA #
There will come a day when a car­rot, freshly observed, will spark a rev­o­lu­tion –Paul Cézanne #
Engag­ing with food as an exer­cise of democ­racy http://su.pr/AMoHbI #
Kitchen Art: Culi­nary tat­toos http://su.pr/2f0Pfs #
Food pro­fes­sion­als demand trans­parency in government! […]

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The Inimitable Wendell Berry

September 27, 2009
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Squash Sublime– Food and Photography

September 25, 2009

About a week ago I picked up this fas­ci­nat­ing squash from Chino Farm in Ran­cho Santa Fe– I thought it was so pretty that it needed to be pho­tographed by a pro. So I asked my pho­tog­ra­pher friend Alex Guy if he wanted a go, and just look at the beau­ti­ful results!

If you want to […]

Tagged as: Farming, food, homegrowninitiative

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Food is Life Itself

September 22, 2009

When you kill your own food, it gives you a new per­spec­tive. Philo­soph­i­cally, it taught me that food is life itself. A few months ago, I went to New Zealand to learn about local food sys­tems and farm­ing, and ended up in a lovely place called Karibu Creek in the North­land, where I met some […]

Tagged as: agriculture, Farming, food, slowfood

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

September 20, 2009

The Vert­erra com­postable plates were a hit at the wed­ding shower– so nice to see peo­ple jazzed about using renew­able party supplies! #

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The White House Heirloom Garden

September 19, 2009

I didn’t know that the cur­rent White House veg­etable gar­den is the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s vic­tory gar­den in WWII. They’re using seeds from Mon­ti­cello which Jef­fer­son col­lected from around the world. I really enjoyed this mini-documentary about the White House gar­den with chef Sam Kass:

Tagged as: whitehousegarden gardening michelleobama

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Know your Farmer; Know your Food. A new era of US ag policy?

September 17, 2009

Ag sec­re­tary Vil­sack has announced a new USDA ini­tia­tive called “Know your Farmer; Know your Food” (#KYF2 on twit­ter.) The project aims to sup­port small and local farms while boost­ing con­sumer aware­ness of what they’re putting in their bod­ies. And this appears to be more than mere lip ser­vice. At least $65 mil­lion dol­lars of […]

Tagged as: agpolicy, kyf2, michelleobama, usda, vilsack, whitehouse

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