02009-01-23 | Computer, Food, Phone
Top Kitchen Toy? The Cellphone – NYTimes.com
Mr. Cosentino said that he sees multifunction devices like the iPhone as the real technological revolution for chefs.
“You’re never going to get a chef to sit at a desk or a computer screen all day,” he said. “But I can take this to the farmers’ market, I can take it to Italy, use it as a camera, look up the history of dishes so I can brief my servers, and make voice notes while I’m cooking,” he said. “And then do I use it to play the Macarena in the kitchen and drive everyone crazy? Yes, I do.”
02009-01-17 | Food, News
A County in China Sees Its Fortunes in Tea Leaves Until a Bubble Bursts – NYTimes.com
MENGHAI, China — Saudi Arabia has its oil. South Africa has its diamonds. And here in China’s temperate southwest, prosperity has come from the scrubby green tea trees that blanket the mountains of fabled Menghai County.
02008-12-30 | Food
Received a food processor last week – cut everything by hand before. Also received some walnuts from another friend’s tree. Found arugula and parmeggiano in my fridge. Thus had to make pasta with pesto for lunch today… a arugula-walnut-pesto.
02008-10-26 | Environment, Food
If you eat fish, you eat plastic
Last summer, Markus and a colleague sailed a junk raft made from 15,000 plastic bottles from California to Honolulu in order to bring attention to the huge amount of plastic floating in a one-million square mile area known as the Pacific Gyre.
Suffice to say that the staff of Algalita have discovered that the surface of the ocean there contains six times more plastic by weight than biological matter like plankton. The plastic, it turns out, enters the ocean when it is is washed off the streets of coastal cities.
As of now, there is no technological way to clean the ocean up. The only answer is for us to stop using plastic products–especially those that are designed to be single-use, throw-away–so it doesn’t get worse.
Wondering how this affects you? Watch the very short video below. Suffice to say that, if you eat fish, you eat plastic.
Direct link to video
02008-09-02 | Food, Photos, Touring
Somewhere near the airport on our way home:
02008-08-31 | Food
SFN: A slow food preamble | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Poet, essayist, novelist and “local-ist” Wendell Berry kicked off the final panel of the Slow Food Nation “Food for Thought” series on Saturday by reading a short statement describing the current food crisis.
For too long, humans have been spared, mainly by the cheapness of the fossil fuels, from the universal necessity of local adaptation.
It is ultimately an inescapable biological imperative that human land use economies should correspond as closely as possible to the ecological mosaic. To this, we no longer have even the illusion of a second choice.
The increasing cost of energy and the vulnerability of long distance transportation in an age of violence show the importance of local food and forest communities and the reasonable extent of local economic self-sufficiency everywhere.
Local… is the first layer, everything has to start there. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
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