Food

Eating Local–Or Local Enough

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If I earn ten pennies in heaven for being a local food supplier, do I get five for being regional?

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Slow Democracy

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The protestors stood on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, brandishing bowls of penne pasta. Above them rose the wide marble staircase of the Spanish Steps; nearby, turquoise water spilled from the square’s iconic marble fountain, just as it had…

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Play With Your Food

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The pleasures of a partial self-sufficiency.

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Scotch on the Bruce

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Owen Sound, ONT…
The Bruce Peninsula extends like a claw off Southern Ontario’s main land mass into the Great Lakes basin. Forming a long arc with Manitoulin Island, the Bruce separates Lake Huron from Georgian Bay, a body of water

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Why I Am Not a Foodie

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Guess what’s for dinner.

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Getting the Garden Going, One Baby-Step at a Time

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[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
This academic year Friends University found itself wondering what to do with a plot of land, directly beside and behind some student dormitories. Through a fortuitous combination of variables (the discovery of some left-over money…

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Among the Mad Farmers: Chicago Good Food Festival and Conference

Good Food Festival April 8, 2012

“If you’ve never worked a tradeshow booth,” a business pal once remarked to me, “you’re not a real American.” True dat. At the Good Food Festival and Conference in Chicago last week, the booths were full of real Americans, all…

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The Food Broker

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Big-city economic development from the pasture up.

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