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Seven Questions for 2010 (and Beyond)
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyI intend to toast the end of this decade with gratitude and a kiss, but a gleam is in my eye for 2010 and beyond. Will we learn from our heroines, heroes, villains and failures? At the start of a new decade, and at the end of a tragic, chaotic and glorious one, life has repositioned us for change. Will we make the most of it?My "wishes" for the years to come are framed as questions laced with hope:1. Will we demand a solid education for every American child? I've talked to kids who attend private and public, suburban and urban schools and have been grieved by gaps in their training. The good ...
A Bum Steer: Big Beef Throws Its Weight Around at Cal Poly
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyBig Beef has a bone to pick with Michael Pollan. And who can blame it? After all, Pollan, a professor of journalism at University of California at Berkeley and a critic of industrial agriculture, almost got away with delivering a lecture last week to students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. How dare he?! Pollan had been invited by the university's Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium, a faculty-run group that works to make sure students are exposed to alternatives to conventional agricultural practices. Apparently Big Beef decided to get mad -- and get ...
Since When Is Cooking at Home 'Elitist'?
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailySpeaking of wise eating, Michelle, Sunday's New York Times magazine was full of advice on this issue, and the response in the blogosphere was not all friendly. In fact, it tended toward either extreme, kind of the way our American eating habits (binge/starve; fast food/slow food; cook everything/cook nothing) are portrayed. People seemed to either swoon over every single word that was printed, or to reject its preachy tone and continuous nudging toward home cooking as an answer to our bad eating habits and copious health ills. I didn't find the issue to be especially provocative, though ...
Cloudy With a Likelihood of Obesity
By Michelle Brafman - Politics DailySo we've established that obesity is a super-sized health problem for Americans. According to a study published in July, the obesity rates have increased in 23 states and declined in none. What kind of danger does this pose for both adults and children? And what can we to do about it? ...
Corn: A Story With More Than One Kernel of Truth
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyAfter my most recent rant -- I mean post -- on cheap food, I received a very nice response from Audrae Erickson, the president of the Corn Refiners Association, seeking to clear up any confusion about government subsidies and corn, and to allay any concerns about the sweet nature of corn sweetener. Ms. Erickson posted a short reply in the comments section of my original post, and then followed up with a more detailed reply in an e-mail. Her message reminded me that there are always (at least) two sides to a story. For instance, among the points she made is this one: "Manufacturers of corn ...
Debunking the Myth of 'Cheap' Fast Food
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyLinda, the scene you describe from the movie "Food Inc.," in which a family of four is unable to afford fresh pears and instead is compelled to choke down fast-food "dollar meals" sounds heartbreaking. I have yet to see the movie because -- most frustratingly -- it is not playing anywhere in the D.C. area, where I live (though I did read both '"The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "Fast Food Nation," on which the film is based). Like you, I am lucky. I go to my farmers' market every week; at the supermarket I can choose to spend my grocery money on organic eggs and milk and high-quality meat and ...
Fast Food Tarnation! A Rant (With a Recipe)
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyOkay fellow WUppers, at the risk of being branded a food Nazi (it wouldn't be the first time), I am going to jump in on this fast-food debate, because, as you might guess, it is a subject about which I have many opinions -- or perhaps just one big fat one. I despise it. I hesitate to even call it food. The problem is, the minute I say that, I feel bad, like I'm voicing my superiority over the rest of the population that continues to happily down Big Macs and McNuggets and whatever else those places are serving these days. "Don't make it about you," my husband warned when I told him I would ...
The Book That Keeps on Cooking
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyNow that I've aired my dirty little secret -- that I have never cooked a recipe from "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" -- let me go on record to say that I am ecstatic that Julia Child's seminal book is, for the first time ever, a New York Times No. 1 best seller. ...
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