Editor Chris Nolan recently sent me a link to a contest being conducted by MarxFoods, a gourmet mail-order company specializing in fresh foods. They’re giving away 1/4 pound of fresh truffles – worth about $250. Nolan’s subject heading on the email was, “…while Rome burns?” As it happens, I was arranging a visit to a …
Author Archives: Kevin Weeks
Politics as Usual?
January 19, 2009 – 5:00 am
It appears that former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack will be our next Secretary of Agriculture. By all accounts, the choice is as carefully considered, intelligent, and unimaginative as President Barack Obama’s other cabinet appointments. When naming him Obama said, “As governor of one of our most abundant farm states, he led with vision promoting biotech …
The Ethics of Eating Meat
January 12, 2009 – 5:04 am
This is the season for predicting trends for the coming year. Often when these predictions come to pass, they’re more fads than trends but there is one a growing school of thought that you may be vaguely aware of but which I think is at about the point the organic food trend was six years …
Resolved: To Eat, Cook Enjoy With Care
January 5, 2009 – 5:00 am
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, for most of us they’re empty promises just waiting to be broken by the second or third week of January. That’s because resolutions are usually negative – especially the food-related resolutions: I will lose 20 pounds (eat less) I will cut down on diet Cokes (deny myself that pleasure) …
