Articles from February 2011
Posted by Barry on February 25, 2011
Jose Hilario, a 48-year-old native of Guerrero, Mexico, came to the United States hoping to find work in the tomato fields that surround the town of Immokalee in southwestern Florida. He wanted to send money home for his sister’s children’s schooling. Instead, he found himself enslaved—literally. For two years he was forced to toil for [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 14, 2011
When Panda Express, a 1300-outlet Chinese fast food chain, announced plans to open a branch on the campus of the University of California Berkeley, a group of students protested, not surprisingly given that their city is the heart of all things local/seasonal/sustainable/organic in this country. What is surprising is that the students not only defeated [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 10, 2011
Should you ever want to see firsthand how completely dysfunctional our modern food system is, I urge you to hop a flight to Santa Barbara, Calif. That’s just what I did late last month to attend the annual Edible Institute, a conference organized by Edible Communities, the umbrella company above several dozen magazines that celebrate [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 7, 2011
Shrimp were my first luxury food. Once or twice a year, my father would take me to his country club for lunch, and I’d order a shrimp salad—a half-dozen, bright orange jumbos hooked over the rim of a glass bowl above a bed of crushed ice. Skip ahead more years than I care to count, [...]
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