Archive for the 'Food' Category
Panorama: Poor America
February 14th, 2012Here’s a link to the whole show. Via: BBC: With one and a half million American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United […]
After Two Year Federal Undercover Investigation, Judge Stops Amish Farmer’s Sale of Raw Milk to Maryland
February 14th, 2012Via: Lancaster Online: A federal District Court judge has ordered a Kinzers farmer to stop selling raw milk to customers in Maryland. Judge Lawrence Stengel issued a permanent injunction Feb. 2 barring Amish dairyman Daniel Allgyer from sending the unpasteurized beverage across state lines to Grassfed on The Hill, a Washington, D.C.-area buying club. The […]
China: Cans of New Zealand Made Infant Formula Sell for NZ$92 in Shanghai
February 11th, 2012One guess as to the nationality of “offshore buyers” of the land mentioned below… Via: New Zealand Farmers Weekly: Canterbury dairy producer and processor Synlait is negotiating to sell up to 70% of its holding in Synlait Farms, with potential for the near 5000 hectares of prime irrigated Canterbury dairy farmland to be sold to […]
Lodge Logic Cast Iron Skillet
February 5th, 2012If you’re lucky enough to have a husband or wife who likes to cook for you, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to have them cook for you with a Lodge Logic Skillet. Becky, my wife, recently bought one of these skillets (with the lid) and she has been cooking all sorts of meals with it. […]
Who Killed Lard?
February 4th, 2012Via: NPR: At the Lard Exoneration Dinner, Bubby’s owner Ron Silver says its time to bring it back. Lard is showing up at high end restaurants, drizzled on potatoes and layered onto coal-fired pizzas. Silver says it’s intimidating after 100 years of bad press to put the word back on the menu, but he’s embracing […]
Italy: ‘Pitchfork Movement’
February 2nd, 2012Video from Iranian State Television, PressTV: Via: Bloomberg: The fourth day of strikes by truckers continue to disrupt transport across Italy, forcing Fiat SpA to stop production and Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. SA. to halt two plants, as protests mount against the government’s austerity measures. Truck drivers demonstrating against high fuel prices, with the backing […]
James Cameron Buys Farms, Plans to Move Family to New Zealand
February 1st, 2012Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to arrive and live later […]
Fast Food Companies Abandon Ammoniated ‘Pink Slime’ Beef
January 27th, 2012Via: Food Safety: Ammoniated beef has taken a real beating in the media over the past couple years, and now fast-food giants McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King are no longer using it. As veteran journalist Philip Brasher reported over the holidays, the Iowa-based company that manufactures the beef product — at one time used […]
North Mountain Pastures
January 27th, 2012Via: Kickstarter: If you love traditional European salume, charcuterie, cured meats, air-dried meats, or artisan meats by any other name, then you have come to the right place! North Mountain Pastures is me – Brooks, my wife Anna, and our two children, Kaj and Leila. We’ve been farming together on leased land for over 6 […]
Alaska: Man Accused of Illegally Trading Moose Meat for Firewood
January 23rd, 2012Via: News Miner: The Fairbanks man who is accused of illegally trading moose meat for firewood is taking his case to court. Chad Gerondale, 41, has hired well-known Fairbanks attorney Bill Satterberg to represent him in the “meat for heat” case, as it has been dubbed by online spectators. “I’ve got a lot to say […]
