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Every Monday brings another gloomy, doomy dispatch from the pessimistic prince of Sunday punditry, Paul Krugman. The Nobel-prize- winning Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist is on the record–and the front of last week’s Newsweek–expressing deep skepticism about the bank bailout and keeping grown-ups across America awake at night with a frightening fable, [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Kids today grow up amidst a welter of junk food ads and calorie crazy fast-food joints. The numbers are startling: nearly one-fifth of our nation’s 4-year olds are obese. 17.6% of children aged 12-19 are obese, triple the figure in 1980. And the percentages are even higher where fast food [...]

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Says WHO? Conflicting reports this week from the World Health Organization, which came out saying that in fact, it IS possible to contract swine flu from pork products from infected animals.  Then they backtracked.  Who can keep up?
Dear Oprah, can I have mine pasture-raised? The internet nearly exploded this week with the launch [...]

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Like all domestic goddesses born in the midst of the Green Revolution, my mom has a complex grocery shopping technique that has never been adequately summed up by her explanation, “whatever looks best.” It incorporates all five senses (much to the embarrassment of my twelve-year-old self, when she routinely sniffed the stem-ends of a [...]

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Last Saturday’s Brooklyn Food Conference, I’m happy to report, was well attended (3,000 people!), well-received and earned positive coverage by bloggers and traditional media alike.
I moderated a panel in the first session of workshops, so in the months leading up to the conference, I got a virtual view of the backstage and to be honest, [...]

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Originally posted at Alison’s Lunch.

Rhubarb, that harbinger of spring… or for those of us living in Alaska, of summer! We’re thrilled to see it poking up out of the ground! I know, these little crinkled leaves don’t look like much, but once they get going, the stalks really shoot up! Since not very many types [...]

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Originally posted on Sustainable Table’s Daily Table blog.
Today’s Tip: Drink tap water instead of unhealthy soft drinks and sports drinks.
The drink aisle at your local grocery store can be a very confusing place. The claim “Lite” on a soda makes the aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame-K based drinks seem healthy (those are the top three artificial [...]

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Originally published on the Huffington Post. The Larry Pope (CEO of Smithfield Foods) interview can also be found on CNBC.com.
As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initially reported, contain swine, human and avian [...]

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Making the grade. Civil Eats stamped the Obama’s collective actions on agriculture policy with a B- during the first 100 days. The grade took into account Michelle’s encouragement to grow your own, but indicated that Obama and Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack need to realize that the food system is intrinsically connected with [...]

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