A couple nights ago I was in a rush to leave work, pick up some take out, eat dinner, then get back out of the house for the 45 minute drive into Buckhead to see DJ Shadow. Doors opened at 8, with the opener (Lateef, The Truth Speaker) hitting the stage about 8:15.
On my way home, I stopped by Figo Pasta to get some take out. In the parking lot, a guy comes up and asks if he can ask me some questions. Sure thing.
Turns out it was Patrik Jonsson from the Christian Science Monitor comparing eating out to eating at home. A pretty good write up, even if the quotes aren’t quite right.
Have a read.
For not that much more, Americans opting to eat out
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I’m really happy to see that Jamie Oliver picked up a Webby People’s Voice Award for the Feed Me Better site. I highly recommend watching the series “Jamie’s School Dinners” if you can track it down. You can get the DVD here.
We won the Webby!:
Really pleased to say that the Feed Me Better website has won the People’s Voice Award for best activism website at this year’s prestigious Webbys. A massive thank you to the fab guys at Poke who developed the site for…
From Jamie’s Diary
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The New Farm’s Dan Sullivan writes about the connection between small scale farming and customers. In “Broadcast your bliss” farmer’s blogs are closing the loop on really knowing where you food is coming from and creating an emotional connection with the farmers.
Kate Newkisk notes:
The motivation for starting the blog, Winslow says, “was to give our customers an idea of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of farming.”
“Being that it is part of the CSA ordering, at pick-up time there are usually many comments about how the week has gone from sympathy to hurrahs! I guess that means the blog allows them to get emotionally involved.”
Support your local farmers.
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A Local Eating Rhapsody:
Why not try a Hundred-Mile Meal? Third in a series.
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Next installment of “Living on the hundred mile diet”.
Wanted: A Perfectly Local Chicken:
For a truly sustainable breakfast, which comes first? The tofu or the egg?
[In the interest of preserving the environment, the authors are on a '100-Mile Diet'. They have vowed to eat nothing originating more than 100 miles from their home in Vancouver. This is the second in series.]
In case you missed the start “Living on the Hundred Mile Diet”
Via The Tyee - feed
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We beat the muppets!:
Hi guys I am very chuffed that my website has won the Webby award for best celebrity/fan site. The Webbys are a bit like the internet version of the Oscars and we beat off some stiff competition from the likes…
Via Jaime’s blog…
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It all started with a posting to Jamie Oliver’s Moblog which pulled up this image. That sent me to find out more about the School Lunch War. More on Feed Me Better. Finally, I’ve entered The Meatrix.
It’s good to know where your food is coming from and being conscious of that. It’s even better to know your farmer. You can find mine at The Morningside Farmer’s Market on Saturday’s.
In the background CI-2005-04-01-EXTRA03 from the podcast “Catholic Insider” by Father Roderick Vonhögen
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A couple months back Jamie had a pineapple curry dish on the show that looked great.
Did I miss the RSS feeds, or are they a new addition? Either way, excellent.
Take your pick.
In the background BTTB X-003 – 26.12.1996, OKH from “BTTB-X-Series” by Kruder & Dorfmeister
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On my drive into the Morningside Farmers Market, I normally listen in to Walter Reeves on WSB radio and he spent a few minutes talking about his frustrations of Internet Explorer. He then sang the praises of Firefox and Thunderbird.
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Morning Edition, January 4, 2005 · With some of the most productive farmland in the world, Iowa is an agricultural powerhouse known for its corn, soybeans, cattle and hogs.
But an Iowa research center says some farmers here and elsewhere should consider moving away from commodity crops to what’s being called “place-based” foods.
NPR’s Greg Allen reports that a good example can be found in Newton, Iowa, the home of Maytag cheese. The company was started by Fred Maytag, then president of the well-known appliance maker and owner of a small dairy farm in central Iowa.
While the appliance maker is now publicly owned, the dairy farm remains very much a Maytag family business, where many employees have worked for decades. They make a million pounds of blue cheese each year, and they do it the same way as when the plant opened: almost entirely by hand.
Give it a listen via NPR.
Read more…
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