It was a busy month of August - so busy in fact that I need a few extra days in the month to get caught up. Most of my posting energy these days goes to Portland Farmers Market. Facebookers and Tweeters can follow what is in season, what is coming to market and food related news of one of the best Farmers Markets in the US. We are portlandfarmers at twitter.com and anyone can become a fan on Facebook.
Brand new post tomorrow, answering a brand new question but today…here are some of the things I have been reading to keep up my food knowledge current:
What Would Michael Pollan Do? The author of In Defense of Food tells New Majority he will still shop at Whole Foods. I wonder if defending Whole Foods on the webpage of a former Bushie, David Frum, will be enough to get Michael Pollan boycotted by the same people who are angry at Whole Foods.
It's a fat, tax: The manufactured food industry is gearing up to battle a so-called fat tax. Representatives of soda and snack food companies fear a tobacco-like tax being levied on their products on the grounds of health. Interesting article in the sense that neither the federalies nor any state government are close to enacting such a value added tax. Even if lobbying bodies are paranoid, forward looking or some combination of the two – be mindful as satisfying as sticking it to the man with a tax seems, food isn’t tobacco in the sense you can quit it and be healthier. Value-added taxes have a way of punishing low-income earners and if we as a society are truly interested in what people are eating – how to make low cost, healthy foods affordable and as convenient as drive-thru ought to be the goal, not punishing people who don't have as many options as the rest of us. This needs to get done long before a tax is enacted.
Earlier in the week Salon, Co-founder of Bitch Magazine, Lisa Jervis was interviewed about food, cooking and feminism. A quick and interesting read full of ideas on how to eat well, eat better and eat less expensively.
Yesterday, The New York Times was kind enough to explain the magic of Pinot Noirs from Oregon.
Although Dave Eggers needs little encouragement from the likes of me, his new non-fiction book, Zeitoun, the story of a family in post-Katrina New Orleans kept me up half the night reading a book I couldn’t put down and up the other half sorting through the emotions and thoughts the book roused.
Today, I’m going to party like it is August 34th.
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