After reading Nina Planck’s book: Real Food: What to Eat and Why, my consumption of milk, butter and meat changed. No, I didn’t go on a diet, count my fat calories and worry about the cholesterol floating around in my egg yolks, milk cream or rib-eye steak. Quite the contrary: I embraced these things with [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 26, 2009
Bordeaux: worth the hype?
Bordeaux: Perhaps one of the most famed wine regions of the world. But why? Last night we tasted 14 bottles from almost every appellation in Bordeaux. The map gives a good indication of what that includes (taken from http://www.stratsplace.com/mappics/f_bordelais.jpg).
We tasted some amazing wines. The most notable of which were the following: 1994 Leoville-Barton, 1970 Beychevelle, [...]
March 24, 2009
Home Roasted
Yesterday I wrote about bananas and not eating them because of their social, environmental impact and frequent lack of taste. That last word–taste–is a key component of my eating philosophy. While I try to minimize the negative impact I have on the world with the foods I eat, I still LOVE food. To put this [...]
March 24, 2009
Gone are the bananas in my fruit bowl…
I am no longer eating bananas. Even organic ones carry such a high carbon footprint and often have a heavy social burden. By that I mean, the laborers growing the fruit are paid VERY little for their time and efforts yet we sell them in US supermarkets for .49 to 1.49 per pound. Most of [...]
March 23, 2009
Taste
Once a month a group of friends and I get together to taste wine and eat an eclectic dinner. We select a region and each buy a bottle or two from that place and bring a dish. It is an awesome way to learn about wine. The next one is Bordeaux. I’ll update after the [...]
March 23, 2009
Once a month a group of friends and I get together to taste wine and eat an eclectic dinner. We select a region and each buy a bottle or two from that place and bring a dish. It is an awesome way to learn about wine. The next one is Bordeaux. I’ll update after the tasting.
March 22, 2009
Emerging Respect for Food Studies
A little over a year ago I applied to graduate programs to study the culture, politics, and policies of food in the United States. At the time, I met with countless academics in the Bay Area. While some, like Michael Pollan (UC Berkeley) and Carolyn de la Peña (UC Davis) did not question the validity [...]
