I was reading Michael Pollan’s article in the NYT Magazine today on “nutritionism,” the vaguely shady ideology that effectively medicalizes food, isolating individual nutrients from the food system and convincing people that these nutrients, not a complete diet, are the key to good health. This, as the article explain, is a clever way to tell [...]
Archive for January, 2007
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…right?
Posted in muckraking, nutrition, work on January 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Keeping it Classy and Cooking up a Storm
Posted in bio, cooking, miscellany, work on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m finding myself in the rather unusual situation of being a temp who loves her job. I’m trying not to get too attached to this, because well, it’s temporary, but this is hard for a few reasons: (1) I’ve been working there for the better part of three years, albeit in a different capacity than [...]
Seeds!
Posted in farmers' markets, garden, work on January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just got my seeds in the mail yesterday from Seed Savers. You have no idea how excited I am. I’m splitting some of them with my mom, who has a plot in a community garden on the other side of town. Since she has space and I do not, we’ll be starting transplants at [...]
Why I Love Farmers
Posted in farmers' markets, work on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From now until August (when I’ll probably have to quit since I’ll hopefully have a library job by then, school will be starting, and I’ll be pretty busy getting married) I’ll be working on a SARE grant project, performing case studies of Michigan farmers’ market vendors and thieir market strategies. The plan is to come [...]
House Dreams, Garden Plans
Posted in garden, miscellany on January 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been drooling over Pocket Farm for the past few days. Somehow it had escaped my notice all this time, but it’s so fantastic! It’s making me twelve kinds of jealous though. I wish very much that I had a 50 acre farm. Sadly, I have only a dinky one-bedroom apartment with no gardening possibilities [...]
Raw Milk
Posted in bio, food policy, organic on January 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Kate over at the Accidental Hedonist had a post last week discussing a Salon article about raw milk. It’s pretty basic and introductory, but seems to grasp the complexity of the issue quite well. In a nutshell: no, not all raw milk is safe, but unpasteurized milk from grass-fed cows processed in a sterile environment [...]
my introduction to food
Posted in bio, food systems on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Otherwise known as “my first post.”
I’m not exactly a foodie. In fact, I’m not at all, mostly because I think the term “foodie” is one of the most pretentious nouns I could possibly use to describe myself. But.
I love food, all kinds of food, and over the past several years I’ve become more and more [...]
