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Community Egg Co-op
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
This is a story about a community egg cooperative formed by a group of volunteers, bringing chickens to a working urban farm, and managing the production of eggs for themselves and a local CSA.
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Added: March 2, 2008
FOOD NEWS: Michael Pollan: In Defense Of Food
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food, provides the backdrop for his talk at the Bagdad Theater in Portland, Oregon, and this earlier interview with Deborah Kane of the environmental nonprofit organization, Ecotrust.
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Added: February 19, 2008
Kitchen Literacy-3
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Part 3, Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and the environmental and social consequences that result. By taking a more integrative approach to how we choose food, we can promote better environmental practices, healthier food consumption, and insure a locally produced supply of fresh, and nutritious foods.
Author: cookingupastory
Keywords: food sustainability agriculture history environment farmers entertainment news performing arts short film trailer tv vid
Added: February 14, 2008
How To Grow A Pear In A Bottle
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Spring is just around the corner, and for you pear growers, here’s a thorough step by step demonstration how to grow pears in a bottle. Ed adds a brandy after he collects his ‘pear in a bottle’ and hands them out at the holidays to just a handful of friends. Oh to be so lucky!
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Added: February 5, 2008
FOOD NEWS: Kitchen Literacy-2
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Continuing the conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy, she explains how over time we became gradually disassociated from how foods were produced, and where they originated. Most importantly, the advertising industry played a significant role in changing American values toward food, and easing the transformation to the industrial food production system of today. No easy feat to accomplish, it took 50 years to fully inculcate society to the new norms of food consumption.
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Keywords: food history industrial modern agriculture shopping advertising commercials entertainment news performing arts
Added: January 30, 2008
FOOD NEWS: Kitchen Literacy
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
A conversation with author, Ann Vileisis about Kitchen Literacy, what we know about our food, and how we came to know it. For Ann, her book Kitchen Literacy came about because she was struck by how much she didn’t know about the common foods she encountered in the supermarket. In the research for her book, she was surprised to learn how much people expected to know about their food in pre-industrial times. For example, meats, they would find out the sex and age of the animal, the farm it came from, and even the animal’s background. Certainly a far cry from our expectations today!
Author: cookingupastory
Keywords: food history kitchen literacy book authors sustainable stories locally grown advertising commercial
Added: January 24, 2008
Sheep Cheese: Ancient Heritage Dairy
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Sheep cheese tastes distinctive, characteristically strong, and very different from cow or goat cheese. On this family sheep farm, the making of cheese reflects a slower pace of life along with a direct connection to the land. Consuming this cheese requires a careful eating pace.
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Added: January 15, 2008
Organic Dairyman: Birdhouses
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
A long string of pink bird houses line the Bansen dairy farm. Not merely for decoration, these bird houses provide nesting grounds for the swallows that feed on flies, using nature to control insect pests naturally.
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Keywords: organic milk dairy farms sustainable agriculture cows jerseys advertising commercials entertainment news performing
Added: January 3, 2008
FOOD NEWS: Part3: Conversation with King Corn Filmmaker Curt
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Farming today is not what we may imagine it to be. It’s become largely an industrial process, and corn epitomizes this shift in production methods. In Part 3, ‘King Corn’ filmmaker Curt Ellis shares his experience growing an acre of corn in Iowa, and what it was like for him and his partner. Surprisingly, the growing of 10,000 pounds of corn in one season was the easiest part of the whole farming experience. The other parts were more mundane, and more disappointing.
Author: cookingupastory
Keywords: Food News food politics culture sustainable corn farming advertising commercials entertainment news performin
Added: December 16, 2007
Monastery Mustard
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
From a very old family recipe, that remains a closely guarded secret, this mustard is hand-made by the Benedictine Sisters at Queen of Angels Monastery. The proceeds help feed a small community of local homeless people, and migrant families.
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Keywords: monastery mustard local food spices condiments advertising commercials entertainment news catholic sisters church
Added: December 4, 2007
FOOD NEWS: A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Filmmaker: Part 2
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Continuing the conversation, Curt Ellis shares his story about the pervasiveness of corn in our daily foods. We learn that for the first time in human history, the problem of obesity is associated with poverty, not affluence. The processed foods that saturate the market with cheap food products is the chief culprit. Do you feel it’s time for a change?
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Keywords: food news corn king curt ellis documentary films high fructose syrup hfcs obesity farm bill advertisi
Added: November 29, 2007