Jun 29, 2010 0
The last tuna
It's entirely possible you've already seen this week's New York Times Magazine cover story on the rapidly disappearing bluefin tuna. It's hard to miss --… Continue reading
It's entirely possible you've already seen this week's New York Times Magazine cover story on the rapidly disappearing bluefin tuna. It's hard to miss --… Continue reading Jun 21, 2010 0
The Food Bubble
Remember the wheat crisis?
This is perhaps a bit far afield -- bushels of hard winter wheat don't generally turn up in your Fresh Picks box -- but there's a fascinating and, depending on your… Continue reading
Jun 14, 2010 0
Planning for food
Calling all public policy geeks:
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning has just released a draft of its "Go to 2040" plan, a comprehensive document intended to direct regional growth and development over the next… Continue reading
Jun 8, 2010 0
Weed reads and more
Here's another fascinating -- and superdepressing -- piece on the rise of pesticide-resistant superweeds, courtesy of Barry Estabrook, over at Mark Bittmans new blog. Estabrook's work for Gourmet was some of the most… Continue reading
May 24, 2010 0
Taking the pulse of the food movement
I plugged this over on our Facebook page, but after a closer read I want to urge you again to read this excellent essay-cum-book-review by Michael Pollan in the New York Review of
May 20, 2010 0
Locavore backlash?
It feels like every time I turn around lately I'm blogging, tweeting, or otherwise plugging Monica Eng. What can I say? Eng, a Chicago Tribune food writer, has a lock lately on my favorite beat… Continue reading
May 16, 2010 0
Irv and Shelly, in the news
Belatedly, I should also plug this nice Chicago Tribune piece from early May, which holds up our own little Fresh Picks as a model of socially conscious entrepreneurship -- with all the profit-margin problems… Continue reading
May 16, 2010 0
Rise of the superweeds
Well, it was bound to happen. Just as the development of increasingly powerful antibiotics has led to the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, so too goes the soil. To wit:
"Just as the heavy use of antibiotics… Continue reading
May 3, 2010 1
How does that tomato taste now?
The news that Barry Estabrook won a James Beard Award last night for his thorough, damning expose of the Florida tomato industry, prompts me to… Continue reading May 2, 2010 0
Local produce: Can it be supersized?
Last month the Atlantic published a thought-provoking piece on Walmart's move into not just organic and sustainably farmed food, but locally grown products as well. Is it possible, wondered writer Corby Kummer, that the… Continue reading