For nearly a decade, Tierra Miguel Farm has been growing organic fruits and vegetables in Pauma Valley, one of the last pristine agricultural valleys in California. TMF’s many programs are designed to provide stewardship of this precious farmland as well as to create positive change to the human and environmental health of our immediate community. →

The Bloggomist: Why I Love DC
Food Opinion

Ben Ali, founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl, passed away a few weeks ago.  Lines have stretched out the door of the Ali family’s business as the DC community has gathered to honor Ben’s legacy. For many of us in DC, Ben’s Chili Bowl goes far beyond the half-smokes, shakes and chili served in Washington’s historical U Street corridor (the intersection of 14th and U Streets).  →

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Food Opinion

One spring afternoon about three years ago, I spent a good while driving up and down Hyperion Ave., scowling as much about my inability to locate my destination as I was at my empty, audibly indignant stomach. Both hungry and fed up with the crooked, U-turn unfriendliness of the street, I’d just about abandoned my search when, finally, I spotted Viet Soy Café. →

To style a fashion editorial or an advertisement, it takes an entire team to produce an effective and more importantly, engaging pictorial. There are many details that go into these projects and often enough, the consumer, reader or viewer is not aware of how industrious these ventures can be. From make-up and wardrobe to set design and product placement, a certain sensibility and work ethic is commanded.

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in England gets creative when it comes to getting their message across. They’ve come up with a series of short promos through a program, Family Supercooks, to promote and inform viewers of healthy eating. The videos include various kinds of foods talking with their unhealthy counterparts. For example, a dried apricot talks trash with a regular apricot, telling him, “You’ve got a face like a backside.” In another promo, a →

So the column name’s evidently cryptic enough to have attracted your attention.
Now.
How will I keep it?

Do you like books? If yes, continue.
Do you like food? Delicious. Please proceed.
Do you not-so-secretly loathe pretension and artificiality, especially when it comes to said books, said food? Then come right along – and don’t forget your reading/eating shoes ‘cause we’ve got places to
go – !

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Photo by Grass Roots Change, licensed under Creative Commons.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is starting their program in Topanga canyon at Topanga Elementary school (in the center of the little town) on Wednesday November 4th.  For those of you who don’t know about CSA, basically, for $25 you can pick up a bag of local, organic produce at any of our 6 locations and $2 goes to the location…most are elementary schools.  →

Half a century ago, vegetables and fruit may have looked less appetizing in size and color, but they contained a lot more nutrients than they do today. According to Mother Jones, watermelons pack 21% less iron and 42% less vitamin A than they did in the past. Broccoli, carrots and red tomatoes reflect similar reductions in nutritional value. The report suspects that hybrid crops bred for size and color are the likely reason for the decrease. →

As much as it tries, America will never be a thin country. Despite Americans’ appreciation for the Food Network and Travel Channel, I sometimes suspect that oftentimes the enjoyment of healthy, home-cooked foods ends after flipping the channel or turning off the T.V. I’m not going to lie. As a kid, I used to indulge in the Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger, a Carl’s Jr. (or Hardee’s for those of you to the East) monster of a burger with two beef patties, onion rings, cheese, bacon slices and BBQ sauce. Considering those ingredients, they don’t seem all that bad when you compare them with what the mad scientists at KFC have come up with next. →

Considering the limited resources of energy in today’s society and rising prices of practically everything and anything, it’s no wonder why researchers are looking for more creative ways to extract energy from alternative resources. The newest proposal for an energy source is from the least expected natural resource out there, watermelons. Yes, that juicy, delicious fruit that we all love to enjoy on a hot, summer day. Let’s consider why watermelons would be a qualified candidate. →