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May 20, 2009
The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite food blog items for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 What the f***?: Seriously, who knew GI Joe had such a potty mouth, or was such an aficionado of the pork chop sandwich? YouTube reveals the filthy truth here. Credit the find to a Tuesday tweet from Hot Food Porn. Poison pen: C'mon, organoph ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. No Noe: Noe Valley, SF ain't feeling the love from 7x7. The mag invited residents to pitch in for its neighborhood issue, submitting photos and boosterish essays. And while the Mission and Castro scored, Noe got ignored. Like a guy who thi ... More >>
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October 5, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Ladies in hairnets aren't the scariest thing in the caf: Here's a familiar-sounding idea for fixing the sad-ass mess of corporate-branded processed commodity foods we serve public school kids under the guise of school lunch: privatization. Grist editor Tom ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Throw a Few Back Tomorrow with Grist Food Politics Guru Tom Philpott
artandresistance/FlickrWear your crunchiest outfit.Big Ag sucks, high-fructose corn syrup is toxic like antifreeze, and even a cursory look at the American food system is enough to make any thinking person yearn to be a hermit goat farmer in Humboldt. That's why we often turn to Grist food ed ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Industrial Corn's Solution for Gulf Oil Spill? Create Bigger Nitrogen Dead Zone!
AP News/NASANitrogen-filled sediment flowing from the Mississippi into the Gulf, as seen from space.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Shucked: Grist's Tom Philpott registers outrage ― outrage! ― in Big Corn's positioning re: the Gulf oil oil spill. Philpott, take it away: As if being b ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
Can Underground Markets Help Create Broad Economic Stability?
slowpoke sf/FlickrPork bun sellers at the SF Underground Market.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Grist's Tom Philpott goes all urban anthropologist today, examining the burgeoning micro-entrepreneur scenes in Brooklyn and San Francisco. He cites Julia Moskin's Wednesday New York Times sto ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Beyond the Cash Crop: The Economics of Urban Farming
ESLI SF/FlickrBig score at Alemany.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At Grist, Tom Philpott reveals how the economics of urban farms can be trickier than navigating a city lot laced with lead. If you're laboring under some hippie idyll that places like Alemany or City Slicker could one day ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Why Choosy Hippies Won't Be Choosing Whole Foods Peanut Butter
GristWhole Foods' 365: Taking its cue from Jif?Our favorite morsel from the Web. Whole Foods turned Tom Philpott's peanut butter to shit. The Grist food editor ― hippie-like ― usually grinds his own at the kind of nut mulchers Rainbow has. Dump in goobers, and the shiny paste wiggles out ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Grist's Tom Philpott Makes the Washington Post's Ezra Klein Blink Re: Big Ag
tomwestbrook/FlickrKlein's vision: An industrial turkey farm in Minnesota.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Earlier this week, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein took time out from pre-air primp sessions for Rachel Maddow to tap out a brief, charmless defense of industrial food. Klein: Despi ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
More Beard Nominees, Radioactive Greens, and Coffee Research
Catherine ColeThe Sightglass coffee roaster: Drink up.Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. More Beard-worthy stories. Continuing this week's survey of stories up for Beard journalism awards, the Houston Press's Ka ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Factory Farms, the Angry Birds Cookbook
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Antibiotics and Factory Farms. This weekend, the august Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote an op-ed spelling out the links between antibiotics given to animals raised in ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Russell Brand and Kristen Wiig Are Sexy, Spam Is Evil, and S.F.'s Best Vegan Junk Food
This news is from last week but I was in Greece and Russia (WHAT'S UP I HAVE A PASSPORT) so I'm gonna talk about it anyway, okay? Okay! Also, I've got mad jet lag, a nasty cold, and a really bad attitude. Things could get extra real today and I apologize in advance/YOU'RE WELCOME. • So! SFood ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Protesting Corporate Greed and Corruption? Set Your Sights on the Food Industry
_PaulS_/Flickr Mother Jones magazine's great food correspondant, Tom Philpott, wrote a barnstormer of an article this past week titled "Foodies, Get Thee to Occupy Wall Street." Food is no side issue, Philpott argues, to the nationwide protests voicing outrage over the unchecked power o ... More >>