Who amongst us is so gastronomically pure we do not keep a frozen pizza in the house for One Of Those Days? If you have kids is a virtual certainty. And this is not from some Ma & Pa Poodlinski outfit either: General Mills is blaming an "outside supplier" of pepperoni for this recall of Jeno and Totino frozen pizzas. So far 21 cases, with, gulp,

Eight of the cases were reported in Tennessee, with the other cases found in smaller numbers in Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin and South Dakota.

We can't get our governor invited to the Great Drought State Conclave, and now this. Tennessee is the Rodney Dangerfield of states. But I digress.

This is evidently one of the nastier varieties of e. coli, with that many that sick. But note the ducking, bobbing and weaving in the phrasing here: Read more…

Crunch day of work here but have to drop at least a road flare to encourage everybody to go read "What's In Your Burger?" Sorry it's the Atlanta paper so there may be registration but this is not to be missed.

Did you know there was a movie version of "Fast Food Nation" coming out? This week? This could/should be the "Fahrenheit 9/11" of this year. Looks like everything we've been harping about on Food Politics issues is gonna be here. Some snippets (this is in interview format):

So some good has happened since the book's publication. Still, in the paperback's afterward you note that the Bush administration has pushed some things in the meatpacking industry dangerously backward.

Eric Schlosser: The meatpacking industry owns and operates the United States Department of Agriculture. Read more…