We recently finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma in this house, and the part that deals with corn production got me a little depressed. Michael Pollan makes some great points about food becoming a commodity, and what that means, and how our treatment of corn has brought commodity-style thinking to our other food: this egg […]
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USDA Stifling Small Farms
05-Mar-08Tidbits
26-Feb-08Well, hello there. It’s been a while. I unexpectedly wound up taking some of January and most of February off from writing on this blog. But that’s really okay as far as I’m concerned; February is not exactly the best month to wax poetic about local produce.
Tidbit #1: Speaking of waxing […]
Maine Shrimp are Good Shrimp
09-Dec-07Saw a post over on Slashfood that Dec. 1 marks the official beginning of the Maine shrimp season.
An interesting factoid about Maine shrimp (Pandalus borealis): Apparently, although the species lives across the oceans of the world, the population in the Gulf of Maine does not migrate. Instead, just like the human Mainers, they […]