Edible Communities Partners with Dave Lieberman and Tools of the Trade

Edible Communities is proud to partner with Macy’s / Tools of the Trade. Tools of the Trade, an exclusive cookware brand by Macy’s, features Belgique Stainless Steel, Cookright and Basics cookware designed for discriminating home chefs. Visit select Macy's locations to see chef Dave Lieberman, host of Food Network's Good Deal ...

Are you going to San Francisco? The First Continental Culinary Congress wants you.

By Brian Halweil When the motley horde of salmon smokers, cheese mavens, boutique winemakers, chutney canners, counterculture chefs, guerrilla gardeners, food gurus and plain old citizens interested in the cosmic change happening to America’s diet, descends on San Francisco this Labor Day for Slow Food Nation, it will be a watershed ...

Bruce Sterling & Metropolis Miss the Point: By, well, about as far as you can miss it

The March, 2008 issue of Metropolis focuses on the overarching idea of localism and its relationship to sustainability. It is, as always, a beautiful and well-written issue, but in it one particular columnist, Bruce Sterling, has taken Slow Food to task accusing us once again of that old canard, ...

Hillary Clinton Borrows the Paula Deen Playbook

Thanks to Tom Philpott at Grist for the news today that Hillary Clinton has hired Joy Philippi, the former president of a the National Pork Producers Council, the main trade group representing CAFO operators, as co-chair of Rural Americans for Hillary. Nice to know that Hillary shares the same "family ...

WeJetSet Loves Edible

Heather Hoskeer, a blogger at wejetset.com, has fallen in love with Stephen and Brian's handiwork over at Edible Brooklyn and was nice enough to say so on said blog. here's a peek: The first issue of Edible Brooklyn I picked up had a photo of a man in a ...

EIRV in the Paper of Record

OK, yes, most of the time that term, "The Paper of Record" refers to the New York Times. With less than 2 months to go to the caucuses and exactly a year to the election, though, right now it belongs to the Des Moines Register. And in the ...

Why I’m Boycotting High School Musical 2

I say that out of one side of my mouth because I've seen it twice already. And yes, I've also been singing along to the sound track with my nine-year old daughter, who said to me with all seriousness the other night: "Dad, I really want to meet Corbin Bleu," ...

Tooting our own horn…

Lots of Edible news these days, so please excuse our indulgence as we recap... Dana Bowen of the New York Times profiled the literary farmer movement in a recent article, and she mentioned Edible San Francisco writer Andy Griffin. Griffin has signed a book contract and is working with legendary editor ...

Dinner in Pie Town

I found this photo on, Shorpy, The 100 Year-Old Photoblog. It was taken by Russell Lee in the 1940s for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and is part of a collection that totals over 600 photos. A couple Google searches later turns up a number of stories and ...

Edible Oink Alert

Because the D-O-double-G is on regular rotation when my ipod is stuck in my ears, I picked up this months Rolling Stone magazine with Snoop Dogg on the cover. You non-Snoop fans can skip ahead to page 89, where contributing editor Jeff Tietz writes about our least favorite company ...

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August 14th 2009
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Time for Lunch: Health Reform our Kids Can Live With

By Kurt Michael Friese In 1946, when President Truman signed the School Lunch Act, he said, “In the long view, no nation is healthier than its children, or more prosperous than its farmers.” If that was a statement of purpose rather than merely a rhetorical flourish, then the School Lunch ...

Sustainable Foods Institute

I spent last week in Monterey at the Sustainable Foods Institute, which was hosted by the Monterey Bay Aquarium as part of their Cooking for Solutions event. Aaron French, who writes the Eco Chef column for the Bay Area News Group newspapers (Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, etc.) and is ...

What makes your magazine edible?

At the recent Edible Communities annual publishers meeting in Santa Fe, NM, I got a chance to query a few publishers and editors with my new FLIP video camera.

Cringe-worthy rumors are flying about Obama’s USDA picks

Joy Philippi feeds a new pen of baby pigs at her confinement operation near Bruning, Neb., Tuesday, May 1, 2007. She raises around 12,000 baby pigs a year. Note the metal slat floor, that is used to capture you know what. These pigs never see the light of day nor ...

The White House Chef Shakedown

White House Executive Chef Christeta Comerford photo Ron Edmonds / AP Turns out that Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, and Danny Meyer's campaign to persuade President-elect Barack Obama to choose a White House chef who supported an organic/sustainable agenda was a wee bit presumptuous. Maybe more than a wee actually. As noted in ...

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