Food
Web Roundup // August 2, 2009
In between working on the orchard/chicken-run fence and praying for quail eggs, I’ve come across quite a few notable items on the web. Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy!
Haute Coturnix
We recently added Coturnix (aka Japanese) Quail to our backyard flock of chickens and ducks, and I’m looking forward to some little spotted eggs as soon as they get settled from the move. They aren’t too fond of us just yet, but quail are relatively easy to take care of and very efficient egg (and meat) producers.
Beef Recall
Another massive beef recall because of e. coli–Please pass Kevin’s Law.
Go See Food Inc.
Last night I saw Food Inc., the new documentary on the industrial food system, and I think it’s a movie absolutely everyone should see. It stylishly weaves together the whole (often sad) story of our food into a more approachable format than say, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, so that a much wider audience will know the high cost of cheap food.
Food Films
There is a group of nice looking food films being released this summer. Someone should put together a film festival
Jamie’s School Dinners DVD
I just ordered the DVD set of Jaime’s School Dinners, a series about Jamie Oliver’s crusade to transform the British school lunch program,
Michael Pollan on the Colbert Report
Michael Pollan makes an appearance on the Colbert report and reveals dark secrets about his past:
Food Inc Preview
We finally get a taste of Food Inc in this preview.
White House Garden
Michelle Obama and a bunch of elementary students will soon break ground on a White House vegetable garden! I haven’t felt this good about government in a long time.
The Mother of Slow Food
Alice Waters on 60 Minutes talking Slow Food
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