Food Politics and Book Reviews
September 29, 2007 — therealpotatoFood Politics
Posts on the politics of food…
Up, Up, and Away: Food Prices Soar Worldwide
If You Teach Someone to Fish: Creative Solutions to the Food Crisis
New Foods to Contain Appetite Suppressants. Really.
Rethinking Meat? Why We Need a Movement
Mad as Hell, and Sick of Being Poisoned
Playing It COOL: Country of Origin Labeling and Food Safety
Fishtown featured in the New York Times
About Real Potatoes: A Memo to the U.S. Potato Board
Harmful If Swallowed: Why You Should Fear Fake Food
The Local Food Bandwagon. (Hop on, it has tasty snacks!)
International Blog Against Racism Week
Roast Pork Buns (char siu bao)
Milk is $3.50 a gallon and rising– that’s way too expensive AND unrealistically cheap.
Five-Spice Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Cherry Tomatoes; Palestinian Olive Oil
Book Reviews
A brief rundown of the books I’ve reviewed so far. There are many more in the pipeline!
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back by Ann Vileisis
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
I’m Just Here for the Food by Alton Brown (mini-review)
The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
The Chinese Kitchen: Recipes, Techniques, Ingredients, History, and Memories from America’s Leading Authority on Chinese Cooking by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson
The Physiology of Taste, or Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
What to Eat by Marion Nestle
World Hunger: Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins and Peter Rosset
