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5 hrs ago | Creative Loafing Tampa

The USDA's "People's Garden"

Maybe Michelle and Barack Obama were strong-armed into having an organic garden on the White House lawn by tough punks like Alice Waters, but Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made his without any public opinion campaigns to twist his arm.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Home Listing, Agriculture, Science

Sun Nov 08, 2009

ChowHound

The CHOW 13

Food trends, be they as mundane as cupcakes or as significant as buying organic, can always be traced back to a person.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Fri Nov 06, 2009

National Post

The closer the harvest, the better the dish

Roasted fingerling potato salad with watercress and horseradish dressing from chef Jeff Crumpis' new book, Earth to Table Like so many of us, Canadian chef Jeff Crump had to leave home to find what made it special all along.

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Related Topix: Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables, Local Food, Recipes, Canada,

Thu Nov 05, 2009

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Our View: When school lunches finally go green

PROSELYTIZING about poor eating habits that cause the dangerous paunches of childhood obesity - and about rising unhealthy adult fatness as well - from the bully pulpit that is the White House has a checkered history.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition, Family, Kids, Vegetables, Home Gardening, Home, California

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Tablehopper

the bookworm: November 3, 2009

Don't forget: the books mentioned below are available at 20% off for tablehopper readers for two weeks following this mention at Green Apple Booksa 'simply use the code "tablehopper" at checkout for your discount.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining

Northwest Newspapers (Northwest Herald)

How the Internet Taught Me to Cook

I love food. I love to feed people, to talk about food, write about food, eat food.

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Related Topix: Dining, Life, Food, Meat, Chicken, Baked Goods, Bread, Recipes

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Ukiah Blog Live

Handpicked - The Apple Farm in Anderson Valley

Northern California breeds food pioneers: M. F. K. Fisher, Alice Waters , Alfred Peet, for starters.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Agriculture, Science, Yountville, CA, Philo, CA

CNN Money

Hungry Men: Books for the gourmand

'Eating' by Jason Epstein; 'Far Flung and Well Fed' by R.W. Apple; and 'Appetite City' by William Grimes How Chez Panisse began When Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, she wasn't trying to start a food revolution.

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Related Topix: Life, Recipes

Sun Nov 01, 2009

TheDailyBeast.com

The Whole Bird

Keller & Keller Photography / Stockfood Roast chicken is a tricky task, but master the art of cooking a piece of whole poultry inside and out and your everyone near your kitchen will thank you for the aroma.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Meat, Chicken, Internet, Science / Technology

Fri Oct 30, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

Bourdain: Alice Waters is 'Pol Pot in a Muumuu'

Anthony Bourdain and David Chang , chef of Momofuku. Bay Area be proud! We're the whipping boys of New York City chefs! First up, Alice Waters.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Life, Food, Food Festival, 60 Minutes, Entertainment, Television, San Francisco Metro

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Grub Street

David Chang: a People Need to Smoke More Marijuana in San Franciscoa

David Chang's appearance on Jimmy Fallon last night was disappointingly brief, but his latest interview doesn't disappoint.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Atlantic Monthly

Meatless Mondays Draw Industry Ire

Tony Geraci, food service director for Baltimore Unified School District, is an emerging champion of healthy school food, along with Alice Waters, Anne Cooper and Michelle Obama--and, as with them, the press has hungrily followed Geraci since he moved from New Hampshire to Baltimore last year to take over food service for the public school system ...

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Related Topix: Dining, Education Etc., Life, Food, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Family, Kids

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Las Vegas Review Journal

Family gardens may hold answer to world's well-being

"Food and Hunger: Eating in America" was the topic of a panel discussion presented by the Black Mountain Institute last week at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Related Topix: University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, Life, Food, Organic Food

Sat Oct 24, 2009

NBC Bay Area

Celebrity Chefs Reignite East Coast-West Coast Rivalry

What happens when you give two New York City celebrity chefs an audience? They insult the Bay Area.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Life, Food, Slow Food, San Francisco Metro, Berkeley, CA

Fri Oct 23, 2009

The Honolulu Advertiser

From soil to kitchen

When filmmaker Robert Bates sees his youngest daughter, 4 1/2, out in the garden, plucking off a strawberry or nibbling a string bean she helped grow, he experiences joy and a jolt of hope.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Life, Food, Local Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Science

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Village Voice

Christopher Kimball Opens Mouth, Sharpens Knives, Again

Christopher Kimball has been quite a font of opinion lately, between writing that the Internet and its broccoli casserole recipes killed Gourmet , challenging " target="_blank">challenging the online community to a cook-off, and proclaiming that there is a wrong way and a right way to cook.

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Related Topix: Recipes, The Grateful Dead, Pop/Rock

Wed Oct 21, 2009

SF Weekly

Doggy Bag: Chez Stoner

Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Go ask Alice: Eater spotted a from-across-the-pond profile of Alice Waters from Elfreda Pownall at Telegraph.co.uk . Of course, "Elfreda Pownall" is one of those Anglo-queeny drag tags, like Dame Edna Everage or Susan Boyle .

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Grub Street

got Canadian toques up in arms

A while back, we noted that New York chefs didn't get all that much play in Phaidon's forthcoming book, Coco: 10 World Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs , wherein, as the new subtitle states, the publishing house asked chefs like Ferran Adria, Mario Batali, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Alice Waters, and others to name their favorite ...

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Related Topix: Canada, New York Government, New York, Ferran Adria

ChowHound

San Francisco to David Chang: Go Momofuku Yourself

SF decides to sides with chefs with be-figged plates, not the Momofuku chef. San Francisco chefs are pissed.

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Related Topix: Blog News

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Do our wine lists ignore California?

A page from Restaurant Michael Mina's list. Go to Chez Panisse this week, and the figs will come from Cannard Farms in Sonoma while the black cod hails from Bolinas.

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, Life, Food, Dining, California, San Francisco, CA

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