Michael Pollan and John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, discussed this topic at UC Berkeley. Eat Local Challenge has posted links to a series of letters that the two have written each other. Watch the webcast if you’re interested.
Entries from February 2007
The Past, The Present, The Future of Food
February 28th, 2007 by Bill · No Comments
Tags: Events
Where To Shop
February 25th, 2007 by Bill · 2 Comments
There are plenty of places to buy groceries in a city. In Boston, most of us know about Super Stop & Shop, Star Market, Shaw’s Supermarket, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc. With the exception of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, all of these places have huge selections of conventional foods and varying […]
Pavlovian Consumers
February 22nd, 2007 by Bill · 3 Comments
My dad sent me an interesting article from The Washington Post this morning. The author discusses the effect of the food industry’s marketing campaigns on society (particularly the obesity epidemic that we are facing). The article points out the strength of the food industry, their massive budget, and concentrated effort to manipulate […]
Tags: Habits · Advocacy · Articles
Vermont Has It Great
February 19th, 2007 by Bill · 1 Comment
Katie and I just got back from a winter getaway in Stowe, VT. It turns out that Vermont residents have a wealth of resources available to them if they’re interested in changing their eating habits. Among these resources is The Vermont Fresh Network that helps […]
Tags: Grass-fed · Beef · Restaurants
Sides of Beef?
February 16th, 2007 by Bill · No Comments
What the heck is a side of beef anyway?
A side of beef is a lengthwise half of a cow used for food. Purchased from Misty Brook Farms, a side of beef yields about 100 pounds of usable meat. I’ll update more on typical weights of sides when I find more information.
A side of […]
Tags: Beef
Grass-fed Meats
February 16th, 2007 by Bill · No Comments
“How does an urbanite get access to grass-fed meats?”
A quick Google search led me to eatwild, a site dedicated to grass-fed food. Eatwild has plenty of informative materials on eating grass-fed meats including health benefits and a search for local farms. Fine, but how does all of this apply to me? What […]
The Urban Omnivore’s Dilemma
February 15th, 2007 by Bill · 1 Comment
I finished the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan a few weeks ago and now I’m telling everyone I can about it. I had just finished reading my third murder book (In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger, and Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer) and […]