Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights. (By Kate Ramos)

Is it only for Californians? Michael Ruhlman responds to Kim Severson’s New York Times piece about the increasing demand for locally grown food. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

Moose may have become the butt of a million jokes, but in Alaska, the animal is less punch line than dinner. (By Miriam Wolf)

If your idea of space food is that funky dehydrated ice cream your parents bought you at the gift shop at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, you might be surprised interstellar cuisine has matured. (By Josh Friedland)

Should a locavore diet involve some sort of sacrifice? (By Miriam Wolf)

Royal fever hits the superorganic celebs, and Prince Charles gets a new American BFF. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)

Butter on the West Coast, sugar on the East, as two papers take on the backbones of holiday baking. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)

As the debate continues over New York City’s proposal to ban trans fats, one restaurateur gets downright patriotic in expressing his outrage. (By Josh Friedland)

A day after the news about the New York City Health Department’s proposal to ban trans fats was first reported, the Crisco is really hitting the fan. (By Miriam Wolf)

An amusing article in Wednesday’s New York Times mocks the new trend of greenwashing in food-package design. But do all hippy-dippy cereal boxes and rice-cake bags deserve equal scorn? (By Christy Harrison)

A Columbia Journalism Review article has a great overview of contemporary ethical food writing. (By Miriam Wolf)

What’s so Brooklyn about Domino’s new Brooklyn Style pie? A New York Times reporter does a slice smackdown at Totonno’s, one of Brooklyn’s most venerated old-school pizzerias. (By Stephanie Rosenbaum)