I am honored to be able to send you this press release about the new cookbook created by a friend and Slow Food companion, Bernadette Dryden, called “Cooking Wild in Missouri.” I’ve seen the book and it is a “must have” even if you don’t cook. It is a book put together with love and bursting
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t been blogging for a while, it’s because I went on a two week trip to Northern California. For ten days of that time I was in a silent yoga and meditation retreat in San Rafael. For ten days I was served delicious organic food for breakfast, lunch, and
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there are several states that have passed “Ag-gag” laws that would make it illegal to film what goes on inside slaughterhouses. This movement was in reaction to the undercover filming of calf abuse over a two-week period at E6 Cattle Company in Texas by an animal advocacy group
Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to a brilliant lecture by Professor Emeritus John Ikerd. His talk was being filmed by HBO for possible clips to include in the show they are developing about obesity. John made a compelling case for a theory that the economics of big corporate farming and food production has
On Monday, April 25, 2011, at 4:00 p.m.in the Jesse Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union South), John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri in Columbia will give a talk entitled “Healthy Soils, Healthy People: The Legacy of William Albrecht. Even if you don’t live in Columbia, I think it is worth your while
I recently had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, from the University of Missouri. He was so kind as to allow me to share his article with you entitled “The High Cost of Cheap Food.” It is a little longer than most blogs I send but it
Recently the nationwide report funded by Congress called “Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food — Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences” was released and people in Missouri don’t appear to be doing that well. In particular, it was reported that we have the eleventh lowest state ranking for eating the recommended amount of fruits
I’ve become aware of research recently which supported my belief that we ARE born intuitive eaters, but we go astray if we succumb to being conditioning by fast food and highly processed food. There may be exceptions to this premise, but I doubt that many of us were born with disordered eating problems. So what happened?
I recently had a conversation with someone who sparked my interest in the term “locavore.” The word “locavore” was the word of the year for 2007 in the Oxford American Dictionary and was the creation of Jessica Prentice of the San Francisco Bay Area. The locavore movement is a movement in the United States and
Someone recently sent me the link to the Happy Meal art project by New York artist, Sally Davies. I couldn’t resist sharing it with you—people I care about—in hopes that I can convince more of you not to eat at fast food restaurants. I had heard anecdotal reports about the fact that McDonald’s food doesn’t
