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 Stories About: food AND interview AND local food
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God of Small Things An interview with underground foodie hero Sandor Katz |
Tom Philpott |
17 May 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Sandor Katz. Like a well-made batch of kefir, the ancient cultured milk drink, Sandor Katz has an effervescent quality. Spend time with him or read his classic Wild Fermentation, and you'll see your food in a new light. Bread, cheese, cured meats, chocolate, beer, wine, vinegar -- all are products of fermentation, he points out: "Virtually all of the compelling, strong flavors that people a ... |
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| Topics: food, interview, local food (all these topics) |
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Cloves to Home Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chew the fat on their 100-mile diet |
Kate Sheppard |
24 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Two years ago, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon set out to see if it was still possible, in these hyper-globalized times, to live off food grown in your own 'hood. The pair made a pact to dine on dishes culled from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver, B.C., home for an entire year. Their personal experiment quickly evolved into a movement, and now Smith, a freelance journalist w ... |
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| Topics: books, food, green living, interview, local food, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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Eat the Press An interview with foodie author Michael Pollan |
David Roberts |
31 May 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Michael Pollan has built a reputation as a sleuthing agro-journalist. In his writing for The New York Times Magazine and a quartet of books, he's trailed a steer from birth to dinner plate, traced America's obesity epidemic to corn subsidies, and narrowly, fumblingly outwitted a small-town cop who came uncomfortably close to his marijuana patch. His writing -- an engaging mélange of travelogue, economic ana ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, interview, local food, organic food (all these topics) |
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