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Did you know that one measly kitchen garden can threaten the future of Big Ag? It can if it’s at the White House. From the letter writing campaign launched by CropLife, the website of the agrichemical industry [via Tom Philpott at grist.org]: “The garden is a great idea and the photo op of the First Lady … Continued

She’s no green

Anne Ford — who is, by the way, a great example of a writer-as-polymath and whose work I always enjoy for its thorough, open-minded take on whatever it is that has captured her attention — has a nice piece in this week’s Reader on my friend Nance Klehm.  This passage handily sums up why I … Continued

Go, Mike, go!

My former colleague and sometime dining companion Mike Sula is a finalist for a James Beard award, for the Whole Hog Project — a yearlong chronicle of the care, feeding, and, yes, eating of a mulefoot pig. The multimedia project was a collaborative effort, with culminating in a terrific two-part video by Sky Full of … Continued

White House garden is go

The Obamas are planting a vegetable garden. Standing by for press conference at which Alice Waters takes all credit. 🙂 UPDATE: The NYT has more. Of course this is shaping up to be Sam Kass‘s baby.

More tales from the vodka front

From the Business section of last Sunday’s NYT, on the recent boom in sales of cheap vodka: Reaching for the Bottom Shelf . (See also: this’n and those’n.) [snip] “Of course, some boutique vineyards and craft distilleries create exceptional beverages, even if the price is sometimes hard to justify. But much of the high-end liquor bubble was … Continued

Buckets to Barrels

Two home brewers and staffers at West Lakeview Liquors are off on my kind of sabbatical: a six-week internship at De Struise Brouwers,  brewers of fine Belgian beer. In Belgium. They’re documenting the whole thing on the new Buckets to Barrels blog. It may not be Jamaica, but I can think of a lot worse ways … Continued

Revolution Brewing

A few weeks ago I spent two hours wandering around an empty, unheated building with Handlebar owner Josh Deth. Luckily, he brought beer to stave off the chill. My article about his new venture, Revolution Brewing Company is in this week’s Reader.

Soup and Bread

Behold–herewith one of the “new initiatives” referred to in the previous post. Cross-posting here for the sake of market saturation; in the future all soup-related posts will remain quarantined on the shiny new Soup and Bread blog. Soup and Bread Wednesdays* through April 1 5-8 PM at the Hideout 1354 W. Wabansia Cold? Hungry? Sad and lonely? We … Continued