The Complicated Politics of Progressive Foodism

Kurt Michael Friese at Grist takes up KFC’s challenge to “create a family meal for less than $10″ (rather than, you know, buying their family-size bucket of chicken with biscuits and mashed potatoes). And he succeeds. Unfortunately, he concludes his tale with the sort of well-intentioned, accidental elitism that hinders the effectiveness of much environmentalism:
I [...]

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Trends I Have Mixed Feelings About

Soul food restuarants in Harlem are struggling.

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When Coffee in Your Cup Just isn’t Enough

Via Stephen Suh: Cooking with coffee! For some reason I find this idea remarkably exciting. This one sounds easy — and delicious — enough for someone like me to try.

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In Defense of My Bookshelves

In response to this, Clark Stooksbury at The American Conservative’s blog writes:
I am willing to accept Wendell Berry on behalf of paleoconservatives (whatever that might mean) but I find White’s ideological rigidity disturbing. Is it really so horrible for a young progressive to be confronted with the words of someone who supposedly doesn’t care about [...]

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Give Wendell Berry to the Paleocons

An excerpt from an interview Rod Dreher (Crunchy Cons) conducted with Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food) for that latte-sipping, arugula-chomping publication The American Conservative:

DREHER: What about human society as an organism? Many people think of Wendell Berry as a man of the Left because he criticizes humankind’s unnatural exploitative relationship [...]

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