From the monthly archives: December 2009
After the rocky economy and related bumps along the way in 2009, everyone is looking for a smoother New Year. Indulge your guests this evening with a toast with Homemade Irish Cream, a creamy indulgence that makes any worries melt away. At least, shall we say, for the moment.
I confess, for a celebratory [...]
Continue Reading →For all California residents with a hankering for trans-fats, today may be your last day to get them, at least as easily as you could before. A law signed in 2008 takes effect January 1, 2010 that bans retail food establishments, restaurants, and bakeries from using trans-fats in their products.
California is the first [...]
Continue Reading →In her recent TED Talk, Carolyn Steel takes a look at the history of food production and asks an important question: What would a modern city look like if it were centered around food?
Continue Reading →At least 19 people in 16 states have gotten sick from E. coli-contaminated beef, and the company that produced these steaks is issuing a recall.
Continue Reading →Following a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) investigation, Target Corporation quietly admitted last week that it wrongly advertised soy milk being sold in its stores as organic when in fact it was not. The error relates to newspaper advertisements that showed a picture of soy milk on sale at Target stores labeled as “Organic”, [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, I presented how to prepare St. Louis style pizza. This week I present to you, the best places I can think of in St. Louis to go out and taste the real thing.
1) Imo’s Pizza. Imo’s is probably the most well-known choice in St. Louis and rightfully so. Imo’s has [...]
Continue Reading →Confession: In college, I was a complete Diet Coke head. There was always at least one case of the stuff in my refrigerator, and I usually kept an assortment of other diet sodas. I had no idea at the time that aspertame and other artificial sweeteners were so terrible for my body, and it [...]
Continue Reading →Given all of the attention on alternative food right now – from backyard chickens to guerilla gardeners to illegal rooftop beekeeping – I decided to start a series of posts on research examining the sociology and ecology of this movement.
Nathan McClintock, a graduate student at [...]
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