Food Econ 101

Paul Roberts, the author of The End of Food, dishes on the food system.

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Jam overdose poisons a national industry.

Won't Work for Food

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Michael Ruhlman's So Rational

He’s got a new book and a message to Americans: Get a cooking scale and some sharp knives.

Dispatch from Terra Madre

Our food editor reports from Slow Food’s global get-together.

Has the economy hurt"“ The Beach ”". It is one area of the US that does not offer an Entertainment Book . Resturants.com does offer some help to defer the cost of eating . Are there any up scale eateries that ,because...

AB: some of the organic milk (the “cream top”) in plastic jugs at Trader Joe’s is Straus. Your friend’s problem was that she wasn’t benefitting from economies of scale that would have spread her...

for mediocre food. (Usually, on the weekends, we “Dine Out” at uupscale restaurants. But., like many of us, we are scaling down. And, on that particular weekend, we just didn’t feel like doing the "gourment...

they needed the money more then we’ve needed the meal. However, this weekend we were at a wedding in New Orleans. We were on our own for two lunches and really enjoyed having amazing meals AND tipping generously. The...

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Obsessives: Jam, Packed

June Taylor makes blood orange marmalade.

I don’t know if this is the right board for this topic, but I don’t want to drive to Memphis or Brooklyn to buy a scale. Any places locally (except for Williams-Sonoma and places like that which add a large amounts to...

of the economy did them in. If they’re not a big chain, they’re struggling. I’m sure there are many others. My BF and I were at Grainbelt about a month ago and the owner, Michael Savoie had expressed his concern...

Slate, in dogged pursuit of the truth, muddies the issue of whether takeout food is an environmental sin.

Lee Gomes writes in today’s Wall Street that cookbook publishers think we are too stupid to purchase cookbooks that include ingredient weights as well as volume measures. At least that’s his conspiracy theory: "if you...

Salon asks: As foodservice giants jump on the eat-local bandwagon, will they dilute the movement’s potential benefits to the environment, family farmers, and food lovers?