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Typical bicoastal blather An Iowa chef takes issue with Time's Joel Stein	Kurt Michael Friese	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Regarding the article Tom mentioned yesterday, Joel Stein's Time article, 'Extreme Eating': while Mr. Stein is of course free to eat whatever type of food he chooses, I must take exception to his contention that 'Dodd was basically telling the Iowans that every night they should decide whether to accompany their pork with creamed corn, corn on the cob, corn fritters or corn bread. For dessert, they could have any flavor they wanted of fake ice cream made from soy ...
Topics: agriculture, food, Iowa, local food (all these topics)

Edible Media: Anti-local yokel Joel Stein of Time takes a poke at the locavores	Tom Philpott	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The contrarian in me grinned when I read the concept. Time columnist Joel Stein pulls an anti-Pollan: He will cook dinner using only ingredients that traveled at least 3,000 miles from his home in L.A. And -- deliciously -- he will do his shopping at Whole Foods, which he declares 'the local-food movement's most treasured supermarket, the one that has huge locally grown signs next to the fruits and vegetables.' Ha, ha. It is a pretty funny joke -- especially on t ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, local food, magazines, shopping (all these topics)

The Big (Local) Apple NYC invests in local-food infrastructure	Tom Philpott	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
While the farm bill wallows about in Congress, awaiting reconciliation between House and Senate versions, some state and local governments are making their own smart food policies, investing public resources in the worthwhile goal of rebuilding local food systems. A piece in last week's New York Times food section reminded me of that happy fact. The article, by Kim Severson, details an effort to build a permanent, in-door, year-round farmers market facility for New Y ...
Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, local food, New York, New York City (all these topics)

The underground food movement gains force, plus lots of bad news Top green food stories of 2007	Tom Philpott	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'...to make whole what has been smashed...' -- Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History All over the country, communities are organizing to establish food sovereignty. From low-income neighborhoods in Milwaukee to Detroit and Brooklyn, to the very heart of industrial agriculture, people are getting their hands dirty and building up their own alternatives to industrial food. In a nation with billions of dollars invested in growing, processing, distributin ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, health, local food, politics, sustainable ag (all these topics)

What a Serve! House of Representatives' food service goes sustainable		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:23 AM on 17 Dec 2007 Cafeterias in the House of Representatives are getting a makeover today: out with the high-fructose corn syrup, in with the free-roaming hens. (Well, there won't actually be hens roaming in the cafeterias -- you get what we mean.) Under Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ambitious Greening the Capitol initiative, the privately owned House food service -- which provides more than 2.5 million meals a year - ...
Topics: food, local food, Nancy Pelosi, news, organic food, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

News flash: Don't drive your SUV to the farmers market And other revelations from the latest big-media expose of local food	Tom Philpott	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
About a year ago, The Economist ran a big article purporting to show that eating locally is actually worse for the environment than typical supermarket fare. I debunked the article here. About six months later, the NYT op-ed page ran a piece making similar arguments. And I responded again. In both of these pieces, the authors discovered that in a built environment rigged to grow food in mass quantities, process it in huge factories, and haul it over vast distance ...
Topics: farmers markets, local food, food, cars (all these topics)

How will we feed ourselves? What a fossil-fuel free agriculture might look like	Jon Rynn	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
At some point in the future, humanity will have to produce its food without the help of fossil fuels and without destroying the soil. In a well-researched and succinct new essay, 'What will we eat as the oil runs out?', Richard Heinberg analyzes the main problems with the global agricultural system, and proposes a solution: a global organic food system. Heinberg lays out four major dilemmas of the current system: The direct impacts on agriculture of higher oil pric ...
Topics: agriculture, energy, food, fossil fuels, local food, organic food (all these topics)

We Only Read Local Dictionaries Locavore is New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 16 Nov 2007 The word "locavore" has received the esteemed honor of being the New Oxford American Dictionary 2007 Word of the Year. For you non-locavores, the word is defined as "a person who endeavors to eat only locally produced food." It was coined about two years ago by four San Francisco women who popularized the idea of the 100-mile diet. The eco-friendly ter ...
Topics: food, green living, local food, news (all these topics)

And Meals to Go Before We Sleep As food series ends, the story is just beginning	Tom Philpott	19 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
During my trip to the Midwest this summer, I saw many unsettling sights: vast monocropped landscapes lashed regularly with chemicals, insidious low-slung buildings that imprison thousands of animals and concentrate their waste. Yet I returned oddly invigorated, buzzing about Iowa's promise as a sustainable-ag mecca. Amid the cornfields and the CAFOs, I saw thriving homestead farms whe ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

It Can Be Done Images of a sustainable-food revolution		10 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
Imagine a place where residents pull together to create a thriving store and restaurant serving fresh, local food. Imagine a place where the money appears, the dreams become real, the produce and pastured meat taste like home. Imagine a place where officials support these dreams with policies that fund organic farmers and encourage the purchase of local food. You can stop imagining. It's happening in Woodbury County, Iowa. It ...
Topics: agriculture, food, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

A Tale of Two Counties In the farm belt, a look at the extremes of agricultural production	Tom Philpott	10 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
When I arrived in Iowa on a reporting trip this summer, I expected to experience it with city eyes: frankly, as a rural backwater. I've lived on a farm in the Appalachians of North Carolina since 2004, but the ten years before that, I lived in Mexico City and New York City. I don't know from vast fields and wide horizons. Instead, barreling down the highway between appointme ...
Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, grassroots activism, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Time to find that special turkey Thanksgiving isn't just about the food; it is about relationships	Carl Flatow	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The Thanksgiving holiday serves to focus our attention on man's relationship with nature. In a celebration of the fall harvest, we express our appreciation for the bounty we have received. In American tradition, the Pilgrims' survival in the New World was enabled by the Native Americans, with whom they joined in a great feast of thanks. Every year Americans set aside a day to hold their own feast of Thanksgiving which features traditional foods that are native to the ...
Topics: food, holiday, local food (all these topics)

Is eating local the best choice? Strengthening community is an important benefit of eating locally	David Morris	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay originally posted at AlterNet by David Morris, vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Some 30 years ago NASA came up with another big idea: assemble vast solar electric arrays in space and beam the energy to earth. The environmental community did not dismiss NASA's vision out of hand. After all, the sun shines 24 hours a day in space. A solar cell on earth harnesses only about four hours equivalent of full sunshin ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food, placemaking (all these topics)

Edible media: Local yokel 'Extreme localism' in the New Yorker	Tom Philpott	03 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Edible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism. Whatever else it has accomplished, the local-food movement has certainly conquered the appetites of New York's influential food-media editors. Following the lead of Gourmet, glossy mags like Food & Wine and Bon Appetit now offer regular paeans to place-based eating. The New York Times Wednesday food section sometimes seems like the house organ of the city's burgeoning eat-l ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food (all these topics)

I scream against ice cream consolidation How to stick it to the ice-cream Man	Tom Philpott	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I've written a lot about the consolidation of U.S. food markets, and have become jaded to facts such as: just four firms slaughter 83.5 percent of cows, and so on. But I actually gagged on my ice cream when I read this bit in BusinessWeek: The days of mom-and-pop parlors and local brands are fading fast. Today, the $59 billion ice cream industry is dominated by two global giants: Switzerland's Nestl� (NESN.DE) and Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever (UN). Togeth ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, green living, industrial ag, local food, recipes (all these topics)

Your food mileage may vary A small grocery chain uses food mileage as an advertising tactic	JMG	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Roth's, a tiny (11 store) grocery chain in Oregon's mid-Willamette Valley, is promoting a 'Go Local' campaign that's interesting in many respects, including its 'Support our Northwest food system' slogan and ads: 'Go Local' products are grown, caught, or produced in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Northern California. Look for the 'Go Local' icon on products in your weekly Roth's ad. Buying these products will help build a regional food economy, ensuring farms in our community [ ...
Topics: consumerism, food, local food (all these topics)

Fork it over: Food miles to go The vexed question of exactly how far our food travels.	Tom Philpott	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Update [2007-8-24 9:4:33 by Tom Philpott]:Now this is really getting vexed. As Gristmill blogger JMG comments below, the Department of Energy did not exist in 1969. (Jimmy Carter started it in '77) Hmmm. Rich Pirog of the Leopold, mentioned below the fold, emailed me with his source on the 1969 study: a paper by John Hendrickson, naming the Department of Energy as the source. Rich is going to try to get to the bottom of this annoying mixup. Meanwhile, I'm going to try t ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food (all these topics)

Long-distance organic Is it really a savior for smallholder farmers in the global south?	Tom Philpott	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In the latest Victual Reality, I addressed the "eat-local backlash" -- the steady trickle of media reports seeking to debunk the supposed social and environmental benefits of eating from one's foodshed. Some of the charges are easy to refute. Hey, in Maine, it takes more energy to produce hothouse tomatoes in January than it does to ship them up from South America! Really? Try eating something besides fresh tomatoes in January in Maine. Hell, if you rea ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, Kenya, local food, organic food (all these topics)

The Eat-Local Backlash If buying locally isn't the answer, then what is?	Tom Philpott	16 Aug 2007	Victual Reality
Is long-distance better than local? Photo: Sheila Steele Attention farmers' market shoppers: Put that heirloom tomato down and rush to the nearest supermarket. By seeking local food, you're wantonly spewing carbon into the atmosphere. That's the message of a budding backlash against the eat-local movement. The Economist fired a shotgun-style opening salvo last December, peppering what it ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food, organic food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Hats off to Hannaford This store takes its green role seriously	Katharine Wroth	09 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Last month, we reported on a few regional grocery chains that are earning organic certification. I went to one of them, a Hannaford, the other night, and have been meaning to publicly praise them ever since. Not only do they have huge, clearly marked organic sections (none of this shy, tucked-away business), they also had a prominently displayed easel in the produce section listing the fruits and veggies that were locally grown. Old hat for Whole Foods, maybe, but t ...
Topics: food, green living, local food, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Reducing food miles is good for the environment? Think again	Jason D Scorse	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This article in today's NYT highlights new research that shows that locally produced food in some instances may actually be more energy intensive than food imported from hundreds or thousands of miles away. While this may surprise many environmentalists, it shouldn't. A lot of factors contribute to the total energy/carbon footprint of food, and the distance the food travels is only one dimension. But there are many other reasons to question the "local is alway ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food (all these topics)

Freight Fright Organic farmers in Africa fear for their livelihoods as U.K. frets over food miles		03 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Freight Fright Organic farmers in Africa fear for their livelihoods as U.K. frets over food miles Small-scale organic farmers in Kenya and other African countries are waiting anxiously to find out whether the U.K.'s main organic certifier, the Soil Association, will withdraw organic certification from food items that are flown in from far-flung regions. Concerned that the ai ...
Topics: Africa, agriculture, England, food, local food, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Forget the Farm Bill For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change	Tom Philpott	02 Aug 2007	Victual Reality
Over the past few years, grassroots support has swelled for new federal farm policies -- ones that promote healthy, sustainably grown food, not the interests of a few agribusiness firms. Udder madness. Photo: iStockphoto The target of much of this organizing has been the 2007 farm bill. If past farm bill debates have been the concern of a small cadre of lobbyists and activists, this one ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, farmers markets, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, organic food, politics, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Eating local, and well, in Sioux City, Iowa An oasis amid slaughterhouses and monoculture	Tom Philpott	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
When you make the three-hour drive from Des Moines to Sioux City (pop. 100,000), the heart of Woodbury County, nothing you see raises your hopes for a good dinner. All along the way, lush farmland lies smothered by what seems like one big blanket, alternately colored light and dark green: corn and soy. At a certain point, the monotony becomes dangerously hypnotic -- and nauseating, if you know all of that bounty is destined to feed confined animals and fuel factori ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food (all these topics)

Maverick Farms Grist's own Tom Philpott and his farm get written up	David Roberts	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Grist's own Tom Philpott is apparently too humble to draw attention to the media adulation with which he is being showered. It's a task I'm happy to take up. The Winston-Salem Journal has a fantastic long piece on Maverick Farms, the small organic farm Tom runs with his co-conspirators. As the piece describes in detail, it's not just a farm -- it's a grand experiment in creating a local food economy and culture. At Maverick they host local-food dinners, teach cookin ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food, organic food (all these topics)

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