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Political Eating

A Healthy Granola Recipe = A Virtual Hug

March 10, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about a very special person in my life that’s about three thousands miles away from a great big hug I desperately need to give her. Bleak hours are the time for embraces, warm cups of…

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Food Blog Ethics in Columbia Journalism Review

February 5, 2010

It’s been nine months since my writing partner, Leah Greenstein, and I created Food Ethics and our controversial Food Blog Code of Ethics. In those months, much has happened here in the world of online food writing and criticism. The…

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Growing Risk: Sebastopol Apple Farmers Face Hard Times

November 5, 2009

It’s 4:17 a.m. and fog drapes over the apple orchards of Devoto Gardens like misty gauze. While most of Sebastopol sleeps, apple grower Stan Devoto is in his kitchen boiling water. “It’s too early to brew coffee,” he says, grabbing…

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Coffee-Braised Bison Shortribs: A Low Fat Indulgence

December 6, 2008

Have you ever noticed that soon after learning a new word, or becoming interested in the latest subject matter, you begin to see signs of that new thing everywhere? You overhear people talking about it. Read a headline focusing on…

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What you think vs. What you do

May 12, 2008

To be twenty-something is to be an active dreamer. You think about bigger picture stuff (world politics, the state of the economy, the state of technology, the state of art and commerce, fame, fortune and all the organic bits in…

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