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Menu du jour food policy : 39 Recipes


  • Recipe SNOBu Nobu Berkeley: no FOOD photo policy = FAIL
    SNOBu Nobu Berkeley: no FOOD photo policy = FAIL
    Last Saturday night was primed to be one of the highlights my culinary life. That is, aside from the inimitable Fat Duck , but that experience reigns supreme and blitzes any competition out of the stratosphere. Last Saturday night, we went[...]
  • Recipe Jill Richardson, A Food Policy Activist Sees Hope For Reform Under Obama
    Jill Richardson, A Food Policy Activist Sees Hope For Reform Under Obama
    The food movement is an un-structured and unorganized movement that has grown over the last several years through the convergence of separate independent, grass-roots, regional and national-level efforts to bring greater awareness and activism[...]
  • Recipe Food for Thought
    Food for Thought
    Not many people realize how little foreign assistance, comparatively, the U.S. government provides to poor farmers struggling to feed themselves and their families. This year President Obama asked Congress to provide about $1.2 billion for[...]
  • Recipe Death Penalty for Food Crimes
    Death Penalty for Food Crimes
    Can somebody tell me why we still import food from China? A few examples of recent food shipments from China that were flagged at our borders: Dried apples preserved with a known carcinogen. Plums tinted with chemical dyes that[...]
  • Recipe Food Labeling: The new snake oil.
    Food Labeling: The new snake oil.
    image via Rodale Hucksterism is alive and well. The cure-all magic elixirs have moved to the grocery aisles, where food manufacturers are the modern-day version of snake oil salesmen. We’re not looking to cure rickets but we are[...]
  • Recipe Food Safety: no such thing as TMI
    Food Safety: no such thing as TMI
    ?There are certain things only a government can do. And one of those things is ensuring that the foods we eat are safe and do not cause us harm.? - President Obama Food safety news has been generating a lot of buzz.[...]
  • Recipe The Food Pyramid is Illegal. And Racist.
    The Food Pyramid is Illegal. And Racist.
    . These are the claims made in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The [food] pyramid scheme Round 1 has been won by the Physicians Committee for[...]
  • Recipe Food or Candy: are you smarter than a legislator?
    Food or Candy: are you smarter than a legislator?
    Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files . document.getElementById("_prewig_4c057cb7d9bf2").innerHTML=""; . If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck? We[...]
  • Recipe Food Fraud: Is that olive oil really from Italy?
    Food Fraud: Is that olive oil really from Italy? (1 vote)
    Walk down a midtown Manhattan street and you’ll see a folding table piled high with knockoff Prada handbags, Rolex watches, and Louis Vuitton wallets for a fraction of their retail prices. Shoppers are well-acquainted with the fake[...]
  • Recipe How food shapes our cities: Carolyn Steel on TED.com
    How food shapes our cities: Carolyn Steel on TED.com
    Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes shaped the modern world.[...]