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1 Summer Reading: The Omnivore's Dilemma
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2 Yum's January Must Haves
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3 Will Obama Change the Country's Food System?
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4 Food, Inc. Film Exposes Problems With US Food Consumption
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5 Yummy Links: From Gail Simmons to Michael Pollan
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6 Yummy Links: From Burritos to Rhubarb Bread Pudding
From full-blown meat eaters to even vegetarians, once you decide you want to adopt a vegan diet, there's a lot of learning that takes place. Being a vegan not only requires a shift in your food selections, but it also requires a lifestyle change. An extension of vegetarianism, a vegan refrains from consuming animal products and avoids products that contain any ingredients from animals. Whether Read more
Yummy Summer lunch where seasonal produce takes center stage — Eat, Live, Run For the love of eggs! Jason Mraz gives up veganism — FitCeleb Ways to make your morning meal a fat-blaster — Health Cool yourself down with avocado gazpacho — Tone It Up Flaxseeds: this tiny food packs quite a nutritional punch — That's Fit.ca Add some garbanzo beans to your cherry tomatoes for salad success Read more
Learn how to build a burrito bar. — Chow Everything you need to know about Grüner Veltliner. — Eat Me Daily Five superfoods to incorporate into your daily diets. — The Epi-Log Meet the 50 worst restaurants in the world. — Huffington Post Food One man claims he has not consumed any food or drink in over 70 years.— Good Bite David Chang and Michael Pollan are two of Time's most Read more
Gail Simmons's guide to packing. — Travel + Leisure An inside look at New York City's illegal beekeepers. — Chow Does it really matter if you forget an ingredient? — The Epi-Log Catch up with some of Top Chef 6's cheftestants. — Grub Street NY 10 new things to put in your drink. — Endless Simmer Taste test: vegan burgers. — Serious Eats Michael Pollan and Oprah discuss seal Read more
A great way to start off the new year is to pick up Michael Pollan's latest book, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual ($7). Food Rules contains 64 rules to live by when it comes to eating, like rule number 19: If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. Each rule goes back to Pollan's basic tenet, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," and is humorous, simple, and memorable. Read more
I've had a crush on Michael Pollan for a while now, and though the specifics of his food manifesto may be hard for everyone to adopt, I think his basic rules are ones to live by: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (And processed food is not food.) Whenever finishing a book or essay by Pollan, I always walk away with a new food rule myself. I was excited to see that in this year's annual New Read more
With the amount of food recalls seeming to grown annually, it is easy to feel that our food system in the US is broken, and after watching the 94 minute documentary Food, Inc., you learn that it truly is. From the opening shots of the supermarket, we begin to learn how corn and the fast food industry have changed the way Americans both grow and eat food. While the movie repeats many of the facts Read more
In addition to being captured in photos by National Geographic, the sustainable food crisis is also the focus of a new documentary. Magnolia Pictures' Food, Inc. is a call to action to change the way America eats. It discusses food consumption today, its heavy dependence on corn, its ties to national policy, and its inevitable impact on our nation's health. Based on the book Food, Inc. (and Read more
With President-Elect Barack Obama taking office in two months, changes to our country's economy, national security, and foreign policy are imminent. But will America's agricultural system change with Obama in the White House as well? In an interview last month with Time magazine's Joe Klein, Obama commented on a recent article in the New York Times written by Michael Pollan, the country's Read more
I have a new food bible. It is not written by a chef, a nutritionist or a dietitian, but a journalist. The irony of dispensing nutritional advice as a journalist is not lost on the author of In Defense of Food ($21), Michael Pollan. He actively wonders throughout this great little book on the circumstances that led food, the sustenance of life, to become so vulnerable that it needed to be Read more
