This morning before I left, I read “Out of the Kitchen, on to the Couch, Michael Pollan’s essay in the NY Times Magazine about watching cooking shows and not cooking. Now I’m obviously an outlier; I just made ice cream sandwiches from scratch (a subset of “cooking” so rarified that the food industry marketer Pollan […]
We drove up along the Rideau Canal today, which is more of a chain of lakes and rivers that connects Ottowa and Lake Ontario. As a Californian, I’m in awe of the amount of water here. The map is mostly blue, but the parts in between are green, green, green in real life. Lots of […]
I’ll justify it by saying that they’re named after a vegetable, but I want to tell the world about my favorite band, Artichoke. I’ve been listening to the new CD 26 Scientists, Vol. 2 (Newton - Zeno) almost nonstop in the car for the past two weeks, and I love every song on it. Timothy […]
From the always-thought-provoking David Zetland
Last week, I checked out Plenty from the library. It’s the memoir of a year of eating very locally in Vancouver, BC and environs, written in alternating chapters by Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon. I had read some of their blog posts, but I was pleasantly surprised by the book itself. The whole enterprise […]
In Mark Bittman’s blog, Paula Crossfield, of civileats.com, has put together a nice list of sustainable food blogs.
And Food, Inc. opens today, to positive reviews. I didn’t realize quite how lucky I was to have been able to see it early.
The LA Times has come out with an editorial series on water, including a debate between California Department of Water Resources Director Lester Snow and Mindy McIntyre of the Planning and Conservation League. Check it out.