Tag: Michael Pollan

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  Good Food Awards Announce Year Two Finalists

  While you may not have heard of the Good Food Awards, there is a good chance you've enjoyed food from some of their winners. The not-for-profit organization celebrates not only the kind of food we should be eating but the kind we want to eat.

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  “Bag It” and Join the “Food Fight” -- Book Your Screening Now

  Attend your own green film fest at home with filmmakers' live Q&A

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  Rethinking The Food Label To "Inspire Food Literacy"

  The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and

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  Help Michael Pollan Write the Food Rules Expanded Edition - Submit Your Rules Via Slow Food

  Now Michael Pollan's Food Rules wasn't my favorite book of his, but it was a best-seller and a new edition is being written--and Pollan is in general a fine writer. To help craft it Pollan is partnering with Slow Food USA for a user-generated portion

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  Oprah Takes on Veganism, Harpo Studios Institutes Meatless Mondays

  With guests Kathy Freston and Michael Pollan, Oprah dedicated her full show yesterday to veganism and meat production. She and her staffers went vegan for a week, some of them have decided to continue the diet (or go "veganish") even

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  Flowchart: How To Find Real Food At The Supermarket

  Darya Pino of Summer Tomato prepared this terrific flow chart to help navigate the supermarket.Marion Nestle of Food Politics liked it, noting:

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  Eating At Your Desk Makes You Fat

  Via Calorielab we learn of yet another thing that makes you fat: eating at your desk. It appears that when you are not paying attention to your food, you eat more and remember less.Researchers at The Universty

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  Masters of Beef Advocacy Grads Take On Sustainable Food Supporters, Attacking The Wrong Target

  If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

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  How Corn Is Expanding Our Waistlines And Crippling Our Health System

  Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

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  USDA Fighting Obesity With One Hand, Promoting High-Fat Cheese With The Other

  All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps

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  The New York Times On The Food Revolution- Plus A Michael Pollan Article

  This weekend's New York Times Magazine was their annual food issue, about a subject dear to TreeHugger's heart: "how the food revolution- from farm to table- is really a story about seeding and savouring communities." Christine Muhlke, in Growing

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  Michael Pollan Admits He Was Wrong

  Almost every time we post something on the meat debate we get a slew of emotional comments from readers that sit on either side. The vegan side was backed up by sustainable food icon Michael

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  Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren't

  Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from

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  Freakonomics Watch: "The Primitive Food Movement"

  The first Freakonomics book was a lot of fun; the second less so, as it sort of devolved into "if the scientific consensus and/or coast-hugging liberal elite are for it, we are against it" type of thing. Hence Freakonomics Watch; or perhaps it should

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  Michael Pollan, Saul's Deli Secret Pastrami Hawker?

  Saul's is part of only a handful of delis refashioning themselves as sustainably sourced eateries. Located in the gourmet ghetto of North Berkeley near Alice

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  A Thousand Words Are Worth...Ingredients in a Pizza Pocket

  We usually start with "A Picture is Worth", but in this case the thousand words are much more powerful. Boingboing quotes designer Justin Perricone: "This is a poster I designed using all of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. First in a

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  Oprah Goes Local, Harrison Ford Bugs Out, and More

  Oprah treated her audience to an in-depth look at sustainable, cruelty-free eating with a show that included appearances from Michael Pollan and Alicia Silverstone. While Pollan talked about how eating local, organic food can cost

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  Tableware for the Slow Food Movement: Plate Tells You When You Are Eating Too Fast

  The Mandometer was originally developed to treat eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa; it was developed to "teach patients how to eat and recognize hunger and satiety." There are clinics using the technology in Sweden, the USA and