Submitted by jjmtacoma on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 1:50am
Lambert has suggested that Cheap Eats! might incorporate ideas about how to cook without the luxury of power or a roof over your head.
I need help. I have been very lucky and have no experience to draw on. I am afraid of being too trite and not fully appreciating the trauma of being without electricity or facing homelessness. The very thought terrifies me.
I can share a recipe and how to use a barbeque grill to smoke an inexpensive pork shoulder to make pulled pork... Read below the fold...
Or lunch. Or dinner. This past Monday, food writer and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman began a week-long fast in protest of H.R. 1, a heinous piece of legislation that actually starves poor people:
The budget proposes cuts in the WIC program (which supports women, infants and children), in international food and health aid (18 million people would be immediately cut off from a much-needed food stream, and 4 million would lose access to malaria medicine) and in programs that aid farmers in underdeveloped countries. Food stamps are also being attacked, in the twisted “Welfare Reform 2011” bill. (There are other egregious maneuvers in H.R. 1, but I’m sticking to those related to food.)
Not to be all scary and fear mongering, but by now we've got a pretty good idea of what will happen (or maybe I should say what won't happen) when the systems we take for granted break down. Life can change in an instant, so there's a lot to be said for preparing for the unexpected.
UNITY, Maine — Area gardeners and farmers know that it was a great growing season in Maine — but producing 15,088 pounds of produce on about an acre and donating it to area food pantries and to other hungry people?
That’s really something to celebrate, according to Sara Trunzo of Veggies for All, a 3-year-old project of the local nonprofit, the Unity Barn Raisers. ...
Wow -- you mean the explosion in intensely cheesy foods has been backed by the government? Along with the fancy that milk helps one lose weight?
When Michelle Obama implored restaurateurs in September to help fight obesity, she cited the proliferation of cheeseburgers and macaroni and cheese. “I want to challenge every restaurant to offer healthy menu options,” she told the National Restaurant Association’s annual meeting.
But in a series of confidential agreements approved by agriculture secretaries in both the Bush and Obama administrations, Dairy Management has worked with restaurants to expand their menus with cheese-laden products.
OK, I was out all day today at The Mall. And one thing I did was get -- gasp -- a Cuisinart, since I figure I'm going to have a lot of vegetables to chop up, especially tomatoes. Read below the fold...
I think a large part of the reasoning behind our city-by-city focus is [that] urban food systems are inextricably tied to a much wider system—so we can use the former as a way into the latter. In other words, we can talk about NAFTA in terms of the evolution of the Ontario Food Terminal [pdf] or corn subsidies in terms of bodega inventory. It can be really helpful to have that sort of grounded, place-specific way in to the larger discussion.
Lately there has been a spate of diaries at such web sites as FireDogLake and "Open" Left wherein lay members — typically under attack from site moderators, who act as Democratic Party hacks and gatekeepers — have sought ways to bring back the Progressive Party, or join the Greens, or build up some other institution, that will allow progressives to act together as a cohesive political unit. Read below the fold...
No one disputes that Jay Bybee's name is at the bottom of memos that were, and to some extent still are, treated as laws which legalized aggressive war at the pleasure of a president and a variety of acts of torture. For many months the House Judiciary Committee has had two excuses for not impeaching Judge Bybee, even while proceeding with the impeachments of a judge for groping and another judge for petty corruption. The private excuse has been that impeaching Bybee would be opposed by Fox News. The public excuse has been that the Justice Department has not yet released its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report on the crimes of Bybee and his former colleagues. Read below the fold...
During World War II twenty million people planted "Victory Gardens" at their homes. They grew 40% of America's produce supply. They did it then. We can do it again!
I saw this entry posted over at Docudharma and thought I'd share the link to it. I'll post as much as I can, but really, it's worth checking out the entire entry. It's by the user known as FreeSociety.
The total vacuum of any principled leadership from President Obama, has inevitably produced the most directionless, anti-consumer, Insurance Monopoly boondoggle fraud imaginable -- which is now masquerading before Congress as "reform".
Sorry I haven't had the time to gardenblog. I've been, well, in the garden too much, and too wiped out after canning and harvesting to do pics. But I have some. I missed a period for good pics but I'll show some results instead. First up: Fleurs. Hecate has some going still, and I do too: Mums did well, if a tad slow, this year. Nice and bright. Read below the fold...
So I guess I hit a nerve with my food fight post, or rather, several of them. I think it's worth breaking down some of the comments and sub-discussions into a longer series. One topic that seemed to bring out the very Correntian best in folks: how we define "obese." Read below the fold...
