Grist — A Beacon in the Smog

• Log In or Register (Why?)

• Why register?
  As a registered user, you can control whose comments you see, follow your favorite authors, and generally play god in your own little Grist kingdom. What’s not to love?

• Grist by Email
• Donate
• About
• Pressroom
• Contact

• Top Stories
• Politics
• Climate & Energy
• Food
• Business
• Living Green
• Placemaking

• 

  Ask Umbra on ditching dirty things 6 Posted 2 days, 6 hours ago

• Lomborg v. Monbiot: liveblogging the Munk debate on climate change 2 Posted 4 hours, 7 minutes ago

• Never-give-up fighting spirit: lessons from a grandchild 7 Posted 22 hours, 38 minutes ago

• Politics
• Climate & Energy
• Food
• Business
• Living Green
• Placemaking
• More

• Speak food to power

  The food movement needs to hone its political skills 1

  Posted 8 months ago

  Despite the giddiness that comes with hearing that "a prominent food industry lobbyist... said he was amazed at how many members of Congress were carrying copies of 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,'" some felt that the article, with its focus on Alice Waters -- who becomes more controversial by the day -- and Michael Pollan as food movement "leaders," was a hit piece. Personally, I think of it as a reality check.

• Did you know Alice Waters invented the slow food movement!? 0

  Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago

   

• For the first time in decades, a healthy school-lunch debate opens 10

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• First Lady promotes ‘fresh and local and delicious’ veggies at state dinner 8

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• Two visions of school lunch square off in the political playground 4

  Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

• Slow Down, Slow Food!

  Slow Food Nation was magnificent in many ways, but overshot its mandate 17

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

• Alice Waters: Dem candidate gets it on food issues 1

  Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

• What’s up with that gated ‘community’ in Montana? 6

  Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

• A good NYT piece on Alice Waters 4

  Posted 2 years, 2 months ago

• 15 Green Chefs 25

  Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

• So Long, San Pellegrino 0

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

• Feed Your Head

  Feed Your Head 0

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

• Foodie kisses all around 1

  Posted 2 years, 9 months ago

• Or, why the Vanity Fair treatment doesn’t do justice to food history. 5

  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

• The Nation comes out with its first food issue. 4

  Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

• Gobble It Up

  Three paths toward a green—and tasty—Thanksgiving 0

  Posted 4 years ago

• ‘Naked Chef’ dresses down U.S. school lunches, demands ‘real food, 4

  Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

• Beyond the Pale Green

  Activists and small-scale farmers are going “beyond organic” to push local foods 0

  Posted 6 years ago

• Food for Thought

  Food for Thought 0

  Posted 6 years, 3 months ago

• Sea, Sea, My Playmate 0

  Posted 7 years, 2 months ago

©2009. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.

Sections

• Politics
• Climate & Energy
• Food
• Business
• Living Green
• Placemaking

Columns

• Ask Umbra
• The Bottom Line
• Victual Reality
• Farmer's Daughter
• Checkout Line
• Green State

The Fine Print

• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Use
• Trademarks
• Contact Us
• Jobs at Grist
• Advertising