For better or worse, I’m unduly reliant on Mark Bittman’s cooking tomes when I’m in the kitchen. I bought the original How to Cook Everything soon after I graduated college, when I started cooking for myself on a regular basis. 8+ years later, it has pages falling out and food stains in almost every section. That’s a good endorsement, I suppose. These days, with a vegetarian fiance, I’m also making plenty of use of his newer How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. Read the rest of this entry »
Big Ten Burrito opened up in Ann Arbor during my second year in grad school, and they quickly became my top burrito choice in town. They offered appropriately large burritos with pretty high quality fillings, a giant step above Panchero’s, whose one selling point was its close proximity to my department during my first year.
One of these days I’m going to have enough free time to resume putting up original content up here. Until then, I’m going to have to resort to providing links to relevant articles. Are they always going to come from the New York Times? Let’s just say it’s my first resource when it comes to squandering my time online. Today’s example:
Amid the tightly packed row houses of North Philadelphia, a pioneering urban farm is providing fresh local food for a community that often lacks it, and making money in the process.
Greensgrow, a one-acre plot of raised beds and greenhouses on the site of a former steel-galvanizing factory, is turning a profit by selling its own vegetables and herbs as well as a range of produce from local growers, and by running a nursery selling plants and seedlings.
They also do honey. This is the type of shit I’ll be writing about in my monthly column in the Philadelphia Weekly, starting tomorrow. But it looks like I got scooped on this one.
Food prices continue to rise in the U.S., as well as around the world, and our President has evidently lumped some of the blame on India. The New York Times reports:
After a news conference in Missouri on May 2, he was quoted as saying of India’s burgeoning middle class, “When you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up.” Read the rest of this entry »
Lest my readership assume that I’ve lost every bit of my social conscience, and embraced a lifestyle of decadence, I should reemphasize that not everyone in the world gets to consume in quite the same way that we Americans do. Read the rest of this entry »
