A Columbia Journalism Review article has a great overview of contemporary ethical food writing.

Three cheftestants vie for the crown of top Cheapavore in a New York Magazine contest.

Why do we eat—health, nutrition, taste? In the wake of Michael Pollan’s New York Times essay on diet, the Amateur Gourmet has his own ideas. Forget nutrition or flavor—we eat for beauty.

A preposterous clause in the Farm Bill penalizes a farmer for planting fruits and vegetables.

Small farmers screwed by the E. coli scare, sez Mike Pollan. He makes a case for buying local and against torturous federal regulations in The New York Times.

Chipotle starts sourcing locally.

An artsy academic type criticizes the romance of farming.

Corporations and small organic companies: an unholy alliance, or the free market’s gift to food-lovers?

Britain considers banning the import of organic food from far away. Do “air miles” cancel out the benefits of pesticide free?

Eat whatever you want and stay slim for life? Researchers at the University of Buckingham think they’ve unlocked the secret: hormone-laced baby foods.

Presidential candidate confusion got you down? Vote the oenophile way!

More vegheads are tucking into ethically raised meat, according to Food & Wine.

Salon sharpens its talons and goes after li’l ol’ Annie’s macaroni and cheese. Seems like it’s as nutritionally bereft as that other company’s mac dinner. Who’da thunk it?

Slow Food Nation’s Naomi Starkman on the growing controversy surrounding Tim Vilsack’s nomination as head of the USDA.

McDonald’s gets a bad rap, restaurant reviewers get special treatment, and we should pretty much eat whatever we want without stressing about it: That’s the nutshell summary that some reviewers are giving of The...