The Goods Are Odd

Our food in 2010 seems to be following a color pattern…

In Nourishing Traditions, there is one instance that Sally Fallon gives a thumbs up to the increased globalization (and industrialization) of food and that is to the availability of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables year round, which insures that people will eat enough [...]

Two products have recently fallen out of favor in our house due to their being less “real” that we had previously thought. By real I just mean whole and tested through long term human consumption (think centuries). There are clearly some product that don’t fit this description that I still occasionally buy or eat- like [...]

I recently posted this piece on the Pop!Tech blog to share some of the ways my thinking about the recent election had been shaped by reading Margaret Wheatley’s book Leadership and the New Science. Wheatley’s work calls for the application of new science’s understanding of the nature and operation of the universe to how humans [...]

As far as panel discussions go “Food for the Next Administration”, a panel put on by Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions, was a bit of a love-fest with leaders of food system reform. While this didn’t provide for a heated discussion they certainly covered intelligent ways of framing the principles of a healthy sustainable food system [...]

Oh how gratifying it is to write about something a few days before seeing it covered in the New York Times. This post on the TierneyLab NYT science blog addresses new research on the failure of the theory about the evil of saturated fat to be demonstrated positively in actual life, including generations of people [...]