Posted by Barry on March 22, 2011
To be Published in June Click here to place an advance order with Amazon Click here to place an advance order with Barnes & Noble Click here to place an advance order with Borders Click here to place an advance order with Indiebound Click here to place an advance order with Powell’s What the [...]
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Posted by Barry on March 9, 2010
I am flattered to announce that Treehugger.com, the font of cutting-edge reporting about all things sustainable, announced earlier this week that Politics of the Plate.com has been nominated for the 2010 Best of Green Award in the Best Food Website category. I’m left speechless. Okay, not quite. Treehugger says that the awards, “are our annual [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 15, 2010
Last Friday, Politics of the Plate received the following email from the legal department of Condé Nast Publications, the company that recently shut down Gourmet magazine, where I was an independent contractor for a number of years. The email concerns a half-dozen articles linked to at the bottom of the left-hand column of this site. [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 1, 2010
Atlantic albacore tuna have long paddled in the shadow of their bigger, more expensive, and more endangered cousins, Atlantic bluefin tuna. Now, “the forgotten tuna” is finally getting some respect, but for all the wrong reasons. Speaking at the Seafood Choices Alliance’s Seafood Summit in Paris last weekend, Phil Kline, Senior Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace said, [...]
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Posted by Barry on November 6, 2009
The daughter of a friend of mine died after eating hamburger contaminated with E. coli at a family cookout. Her death was horrendous. For two weeks, the once-bubbly two-year-old lay in hospital struggling to stay alive while toxins slowly ate away at her kidneys. Neither modern medicine nor her parents could do a thing, [...]
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Posted by Barry on November 4, 2009
Barry will start posting things at this site as soon as he can figure out how to set it up. A very special thank you to Frank Edwards, Tracy Read, and the talented Janice Mclean–who designed the logo. Share on Facebook
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