So Long Ridiculously Cheap Frozen Pizza. I Hardly Knew You.
Not long ago, my local Fred Meyer stopped carrying Jeno’s frozen pizzas. Not long before that, I had discovered Jeno’s frozen pizzas. I’ve never found […]
Articles by Marc Brazeau
In Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s #SNAPChallenge #Fail – 3 Ways her critics went wrong
A few weeks back, Gwyneth Paltrow was challenged by Mario Batali to take the SNAP Challange and attempted to live on a food stamp budget […]
Daily Essentials | 7 May 2015
SAVEUR: Sopa Seca (Mexican Noodle Casserole) This recipe from cookbook author Diana Kennedy is a comforting casserole dense with thin fideo noodles bathed in chile […]
In Defense of Michael Pollan and avoiding polysyllabic ingredients
It depends. In my post yesterday on the Chipotle backlash I wrote a bit about Foodbabe and Michael Pollan’s legacy. In the case of Foodbabe, […]
5 Big Drivers Behind the Chipotle Backlash
The last few days at Chipotle HQ could not have been much fun for the people running the marketing and public relations operation. The response […]
Daily Essentials | 5 May 2015
USDA | AMBER WAVES: Fresh Fruit Makes Up a Growing Share of U.S. Fruit Availability Fresh fruit accounted for 52 percent of fruit availability in […]
Some Carcinogens Are More Equal Than Others (sigh)
Following up on the glyphosate as carcinogen story, I couldn’t help notice some coverage that shows how political orientation informs the way different people cover […]
Daily Essentials – 4 May 2015
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Working, but Needing Public Assistance Anyway Adriana Alvarez, a cashier at a McDonald’s in Chicago, is among the people pushing for […]
Notes From The Glyphosate Dust Up.
I don’t have much to add to the recent dustup over the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designating that glyphosate is a […]
SNAP Judgements
Earlier last month news hit that a Republican state legislator in Missouri had introduced a bill that would limit SNAP (food stamp) recipients from using […]
Chipotle To Give Their Customers What They Want: More Imazamox, Atrazine and Chlorpyrifos
Chipotle, in a move to meet consumer demand, will be removing (some) GMOs from their menu and switching from sustainable ingredients to “sustainable” ingredients. To […]
To Be or Not To Be? And other questions.
Two articles that crossed my desk this past week made for an interesting contrast. The first was an account and exploration of farmers in the […]
Focus on Pesticides is a Distraction from Major Eco Impacts
Whether pesticide use is still a major environmental concern in farming remains a central debate. Let’s look at the data.
Best of 2014 from FAFDL.org and REALFOOD.org
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Best of 2014: Writings on GMOs
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The Low Fruit Has Been Picked. High Impact Crop Breeding is Hard, Arduous Work.
Here’s a big snippet from what I think is the most interesting part of my column today about a Center for Food Safety article on […]
Do Food Hubs warrant a federal subsidy?
Andrea Fonesco CC 3.0 The New York Times reports that the USDA is getting under way with funding for a raft of programs relating to […]
Asymmetry of Misinformation
Karl Frankowski | Flickr | cc A recent Paul Krugman post describes how critics of Obamacare stay misinformed, not always through incorrect information, but rather […]
Chefs, Breeders, and Dogtown and Z-Boys.
Sarah Laskow has an article in the Atlantic about a chef-led plant breeding movement that setting its eyes on the next horizon: flavor. In the […]
Surprising News on Lobbying Spending by Industry in Labeling Fight
It’s not how much they are spending. It’s how little. Coca-Cola spent $4.8 million through the second quarter of this year; PepsiCo spent $2.34 million; […]