The Year in Food 2006

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

The Michael Pollan effect, as seen through restaurant eyes.

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

If you’re going to let a book dictate your dietary restrictions, you ought to read something more objective and balanced than Fast Food Nation. I highly recommend The Omnivore Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It is possible to...

omnivore, and I cook accordingly. I have friends on the stupid Atkins diet, and when they come for dinner, they know they’re going to veer off into at least a few carbs. I always ask newcomers if they have any allergies or...

A BBC video on foraging instills a hunter-gatherer longing, but learning about wild food is best done in person.

Inspired by The Omnivore’s Dilemma, a group of suburban book clubbers decide to raise their own meat.

Journalist Michael Pollan and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey are planning to meet mano a mano on February 27 in the face-off that has the San Francisco Bay Area food-politics community buzzing with excitement.

After nearly a year of trading public missives about the state of sustainable food, Michael Pollan and John Mackey met for a live debate this week. The thoughtful discussion wasn’t the smackdown that one blogger had...

Three recent cookbooks reviewed in the New Yorker reflect how we’ve re-adopted meat as our most treasured foodstuff.

Community Supported Agriculture: It isn’t just for veggies anymore.

The blogosphere is enraptured by Michael Pollan’s cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.

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.

Promoting biodiversity over massive corn-and-soy subsidies isn’t just good for the earth, says chef Dan Barber. It’s good for the palate, too.

BusinessWeek revisits “big organic” in a sprawling cover story that looks at the rising organic tide from the corporations’ point of view.