From the monthly archives:

December 2009

The 3 Best Tools For Following #gr88 #Iranelection #Ashura

December 27, 2009

Today is shap­ing up to be the point of no return in Iran. Media is flood­ing out and repli­cat­ing at a rapid pace. I’ve spent a great dealof time track­ing down the best ways to stay on top of the sit­u­a­tion on the ground in Iran. These three tools have become my pri­mary resources:
The Real-Time […]

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A Silent and Laser Glimpse Into Food

December 25, 2009

Still from the film by First Run/Icarus Films
With­out dia­logue, com­men­tary or analy­sis the doc­u­men­tary Our Daily Bread, con­veys pow­er­ful and emo­tional images from our indus­trial food sys­tems. At moments I was in awe of the aus­tere and some­times beau­ti­ful mech­a­nisms at work pro­cess­ing our food. At oth­ers I was in a more typ­i­cal shock-horror state. […]

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HFCS Tax or Public Service Commercials…

December 18, 2009

via youtube.com
While I sup­port in the­ory a tax on high-fructose corn syrup, I think rais­ing pub­lic con­scious­ness is going to be more impor­tant long-term.

Posted via web from Robert’s posterous

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Food Safety Experts Say They Won’t Eat These 7 Foods

December 13, 2009

1. Canned Toma­toes Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, who stud­ies bisphenol-A (BPA), says the lin­ings of tin cans con­tain BPA, a syn­thetic estro­gen linked to repro­duc­tive prob­lems, heart dis­ease, dia­betes, and obe­sity. The acid­ity in toma­toes causes BPA to leach into food.
2. Corn-Fed Beef Joel Salatin, co-owner of Poly­face Farms […]

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Metaverse Buzz, Meatfree Mondays– Send in Your Songs and Recipes!

December 10, 2009

via ucanr.org
Let’s do some­thing with Kabocha squash and sing a roman­tic song… serious.

Posted via web from Robert’s posterous

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Dairy

December 9, 2009

The Myth:

The Real­ity:

…and yet I still eat plenty of dairy. I’m afraid that even­tu­ally this cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance will become too much to bare.

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Celebrity Chef Life on Plastic

December 7, 2009

High pro­file chefs in New York cel­e­brat­ing life moments with a cam­era crew– an after­hours gath­er­ing at WD0-50 turns explosive.

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Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat

December 6, 2009
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Jack Black | Cooking With Rockstars

December 6, 2009

via cookingwithrockstars.com
What’s up with this ran­dom gal out in the mid­dle of nowhere, inter­view­ing rock­stars about food…?

Posted via web from Robert’s posterous

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New Report on America’s Eating Habits

December 3, 2009

The US Depart­ment of Agriculture’s Eco­nomic Research Ser­vice has just released a report that offers some inter­est­ing data about what Amer­i­cans have been eat­ing for the last ten years. Many will be happy to hear that red meat con­sump­tion is down, but unfor­tu­nately fruits and veg­gies have suf­fered the same fate.
Amer­i­cans are eat­ing a lit­tle less […]

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