100 Pounds of Leftovers

A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef.

The Year in Food 2006

From bad spinach to exploding lattes: The tastiest moments of 2006.

The GAO’s damning report on factory-farming waste.

From cave paintings to burgers, beef has long been a part of human history.

Why I Would Spend $200 on Dinner

Because I love local farmers and the produce they grow, I love the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and I love Bay Area chefs.

Pollan pens a nine-page letter to the next “farmer in chief.”

The USDA rules that organic milk cows have to spend 120 days a year on pasture.

Hounds are divided on the topic.

The magazine’s money columnist explores his yuppie guilt.

Grist Magazine asks if the real achievements of the organics movement are only psychological.

Like the nation’s obesity problem, food-producing conglomerates in the U.S. are big and getting bigger.

Foods have changed. Take, for instance, the humble Twinkie.

Slate goes in for the kill, taste-testing steaks to see if grass fed really does make for better eating.

Want to know where your steak’s coming from? Buy it at the source, says today’s San Francisco Chronicle in an article about the rising numbers of consumers going straight to the farm to get their meat.

Documentary King Corn opens today in NYC, giving anticorn activists something to chew on.