- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Chef and sustainable food advocate Alice Waters has organized a class to be offered at UC Berkeley this fall called "Edible Education 101," according to Mother Jones food and ag blogger Tom Philpott.
The class will be co-taught by Nikki Henderson, executive director of People's Grocery in Oakland, and UC Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollen, the author of several best-sellers about the U.S. food system.
Henderson told Philpott that the course is subtitled "The Rise and Future of the Food Movement" to acknowledge its outgrowth from advocacy by the white-table-cloth sustainable eating crowd and proponents of food justice for low...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Fast food is cheap, but an Associated Press story that moved on the wire yesterday offered help for eating "slower food" on a budget. AP reporter Michelle Locke Ho opened her story by making examples of two slow-food products: $20 handcrafted cheese and $100 free-range turkey. She talked to UC Davis food systems analyst Gail Feenstra about what appears to be a pricy trend.
"It's been sort of touted as being an upper-income thing, which is unfortunate because that is not the bottom line," Feenstra was quoted. "The slow food movement needs to be about everybody having access to good quality food."
The story was organized...