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Foodie Friday: Janet Gilles on Changing Diets
Evolutionary Diets and the Value of Traditional Herbs and SpicesBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / June 19, 2009 As our food supply gets further and further away from traditional origins, new diseases crop up in the landscape. Peanuts, … Continue reading
Foodie Friday Dribbles Into Saturday: Great Reading About Food
This could have been another Foodie Friday post, but I felt it was interesting and important enough not to delay it for a week. These Internet food sites are fantastic, with much information about things that matter immensely now and … Continue reading
Foodie Sunday: Open Season on Alice Waters
Alice Waters. Photograph by Jamie Rose/The New York Times/Redux.The War on Alice WatersBy Laura Shapiro / May 6, 2009 She made sustainable agriculture a rallying cry, but now the activist chef is under attack from food lovers. “It…radically overstates Alice … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: Garlic Time
Garlic: This bud’s for you.By Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2009 The new young garlic is coming in now, and now is the time to discover its delicate yet tremendous support for your favorite recipes. Here … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: Huevos Ricardos
Poached eggs on corn bread with chipotle-hollandaise sauce from the Mercadito Cantina, in the East Village, NYC. The dish described below is similar, but different.Huevos Ricardos for TwoBy Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2009 These were … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: World’s Best Tortilla Soup
Healing BrothsBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2009 My old buddy David Hamilton, knowing of my recent foray into healing broths, gave me a large grocery sack of collard greens from his garden. Why it took … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: The Bacon Explosion
I know, I know – I’m two days late. So, I forgot, but this is so worth spreading around that I’m posting it anyway. Just think – 5,000 calories and 500 grams of fat in one little dish !! It’s … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: Buckwheat Pancakes
Staff of LifeBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / December 12, 2008 I have been cooking pancakes a lot lately. Really, you need them every meal if you are avoiding wheat flour bread from the Evil Empire. Last Sunday … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: Champandongo and Black-Eyed ‘Peans’
High time we resurrected the “Foodie Friday” tradition with the Rag Blog. I was doing this in the early days of the blog, but let it slip as political events overtook us. Now we bring it back in all its … Continue reading
Slow Food Nation : You Are What You Eat
The Slow Food Nation gathering promises to be a Woodstock for food lovers and enviros concerned with our food system.By Kerry Trueman / August 25 SAN FRANCISCO — A swarm of 40,000 to 50,000 locavores will descend on San Francisco … Continue reading
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