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March 18, 2009
The Food Bubble: Pop!
Pop!The Times has an interesting article today comparing the restaurant industry to the real estate and financial sectors--there was a bubble, and yes, it burst. The article cites New York Department of Labor stats that show the restaurant industry gained 50,000 jobs in the last seven years, only to ... More >>
Columns
May 6, 2008
Free Will Astrology: May 7 through 13
Pop!The Times has an interesting article today comparing the restaurant industry to the real estate and financial sectors--there was a bubble, and yes, it burst. The article cites New York Department of Labor stats that show the restaurant industry gained 50,000 jobs in the last seven years, only to ... More >>
Art
September 3, 2008
Flora! Flora! Flora! It's Plants as Muse in a Big Group Show at a Manhattan Bank
Pop!The Times has an interesting article today comparing the restaurant industry to the real estate and financial sectors--there was a bubble, and yes, it burst. The article cites New York Department of Labor stats that show the restaurant industry gained 50,000 jobs in the last seven years, only to ... More >>
News
June 3, 2003
They Shoot Journos, Don't They?
CPJ Calls Hotel Palestine Deaths Avoidable
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September 21, 1999
Exit Stage Right
Press Winks As Starr Tries To Dodge Accountability
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October 5, 1999
Chasing the Dragon
Time Warner Goes to China and Gets Shanghaied by Its Hosts
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February 1, 2000
'The New Yorker' Sells Out
Writer John Seabrook Lives to Tell the Tale
Books
January 15, 2002
Books
Writer John Seabrook Lives to Tell the Tale
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March 19, 2002
Feeding Frenzy
From Celebrity Chefs to Gourmet Guerrillas, Americans Confront the Hazards of the Food World
Books
July 30, 2002
Toxic to the Tongue
How Big Business Feeds You Hazardous Food
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March 30, 2009
Grocery Auctions & Dinner Deals
More people are cooking at home instead of eating out, but they aren't exactly thrilled about it, according to a recent study. More of us doubted the safety of supermarket food last year compared to how we felt about it four years previous, back in the blissfully innocent days before poisonous pean ... More >>
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March 31, 2009
Another Food Scare: Now it's Pistachios
More fodder for those who believe the FDA needs a total overhaul--another food recall! This time, it's pistachios. The recall involves one million pounds of the nuts, possibly contaminated with salmonella, produced by Setton Pistachios in California. The FDA recommends avoiding all pistachios and pi ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
Earth Day Prompts Green Talk; Big Ag No Fan of White House Garden
A new study shows that the more choice we have, the more likely we are to opt for unhealthy foods. Fries or salad? Er, what do you think? [CBC] Michelle Obama has incurred the wrath of Big Agriculture by aligning herself with the locavore movement. The Mid-America CropLife Association (MACA) wrote ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Michael Pollan on the Colbert Report
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cMichael Pollancolbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorGay Marriage The Colbert Report was food-centric last night, including Colbert dining and dashing on the ridiculous $1000 sundae at Serendipity, and this interview with Michael Po ... More >>
Film
June 10, 2009
Dying to Eat in Food Inc.
Doc to America's food industry: You're killing us!
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July 30, 2009
Michael Pollan on Julia Child and Our Culinary End of Days
The imminent release of Julie & Julia has so far launched about five thousand articles, and this weekend, Michael Pollan will bring us one more. The film has inspired Pollan to pen over 8,000 words in the New York Times Magazine about, among other thing, the rise of cooking as a spectator sport, ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
New Food Safety Laws Passed; Philippe Sends Spies to Mr. Chow's
The Cove, a tense new Sundance award-winning documentary about a town in Japan where thousands of wild dolphins are captured for marine amusement parks or slaughtered for food, opens in select theaters today. [Reuters] The House of Representatives passed new food safety legislation yesterday ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Island Snacks Recall; Industry Bigwigs Bid Cafe des Artistes Adieu
The latest food safety scare involves a snack mix made by Snack King Foods in Rochester called Island Snacks Natures Mix. The product, sold at Kmart, is being recalled due to the detection of undeclared sulfites during routine tests. [Forbes] BlackBook rounds up the best comfort food spots ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Michael Pollan on American Obesity and the Healthcare Debate; Tavern on the Green Files for Bankruptcy
Following last night's speech by President Obama on healthcare reform, Michael Pollan pens an op-ed pointing to the "elephant in the room" of the health-care debate: the way Americans eat. [NY Times] Tavern on the Green has officially filed Chapter 11, listing assets and liabilities of as mu ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
'Bacon Is Good for Me': The Remix
Remember that episode of Wife Swap where the chubby, angry Southern kid goes apeshit when his new health-nut mom tries to take away his bacon? Behold: the remix. The kid's "bacon is good for me" catchphrase provides the refrain, spliced with shots of bacon pie, a Bacon Explosion, and Kevin Bacon. ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
Michael Pollan's New Food Rules
The New York Times Magazine's food issue is coming out this weekend, but some of the content is online now, like the cover story on Jamie Oliver's project to make fat Americans slim down. Then Michael Pollan weighs in, as he is wont to do, with some new rules on how to eat. But these aren't actuall ... More >>
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November 9, 2009
The Pollan/Safran Foer Effect: Even 'Bones' Gets Food Political
Books like Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and the Michael Pollan oeuvre aren't just turning vegetarian starlets into hardcore vegans. Their message of the evils of factory farming may also be reaching mainstream television audiences across the country via such innocuous shows as FOX's foren ... More >>
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January 11, 2010
There's Poo In Your Coke; Smoky Foods May Be Toxic
Curtis Allina, the candy company executive responsible for the modern Pez dispenser, has died at age 87. The former vice-president of what is now Pez Candy helped develop the first character dispensers, which became highly collectible. [NY Times] A recent study reveals that nearly half of al ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
Moby Chews on Some Gristle
Being New York's most recognizable bald vegan just wasn't enough for Moby, who's now added "anthology editor" to his list of accomplishments. The musician and Teany co-founder has just edited (with Miyun Park) Gristle, a collection of essays about meat.
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March 15, 2010
Hardcore Homemakers Make Locavorism a Feminist Cause
Femivorism: homemaking for the hardcore.Has Michael Pollan given women a way to be feminists and stay-at-home moms at the same time? A movement described as "femivorism" involves women who stay at home -- not only to care for their families, but also to grow their own produce, can their prese ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Fast Company Names Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food
parttake/photobucketSome thumbs are greener than others.Feeling green, perhaps, Fast Company has listed its 10 "Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food," including farmers, chefs, and urban planners. (Unsurprisingly, a certain organic supermarket chain CEO is noticeably absent from the list ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
Chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern on Health Care, Salt, and the One Food He Won't Eat
Ellen Silverman PhotographyYesterday, we talked to Michael Anthony, executive chef at Gramercy Tavern, about the James Beards, his most embarrassing kitchen moment, and the advent of ramps. Today, in the second half of the interview, find out how Anthony feels about health care, the mayor's ... More >>
Film
April 6, 2010
Fresh Calls Food Activists to Arms, Again
Ellen Silverman PhotographyYesterday, we talked to Michael Anthony, executive chef at Gramercy Tavern, about the James Beards, his most embarrassing kitchen moment, and the advent of ramps. Today, in the second half of the interview, find out how Anthony feels about health care, the mayor's ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
Chang, Pollan, Grandin Make the 2010 Time 100 List
Jason Koski/Cornell UniversityTemple GrandinTime has spit out its annual Time 100 list, and managed to make room on it for a few people concerned with what we put in our pie holes.
Blogs
June 3, 2010
Padma and Friends Declare Food Television Safe for Consumption
Keith WagstaffCulinary types discuss culinary television programming.Michael Pollan's New York Times article "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch" hung heavily over the "Food on the Tube: How TV Shapes the Way We Think About Food" talk Tuesday night at the 92nd Street Y. In attendance: Padma L ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Chatting With Veggie Burgers Every Which Way's Lukas Volger About Reinventing the Bête Noire of Vegetarian Dining
Veggie Burger MadnessLukas Volger displays one of his creations.Even though it's generally accepted that vegetarian food has evolved by leaps and bounds over the past several years, veggie burgers by and large remain stuck in the herbivore ghetto. There's the Morningstar-Boca Burger contingen ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Chatting With Veggie Burgers Every Which Way's Lukas Volger About Bodega Vegans and Why So Many Veggie Burgers Suck
Veggie Burger MadnessLukas Volger shows us a veggie burger.Yesterday, we spoke with Lukas Volger about his new book, Veggie Burgers Every Which Way, in which he gives a long-needed make-over to the bête noire of vegetarian dining. Today in Part 2 of our interview, the author talks about ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Michael Pollan Endorses the $8 Dozen of Eggs
Michael Pollan gets egg-cited.In a Wall Street Journal interview, Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and, more recently, Food Rules, defends the $8 dozen of eggs:
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October 15, 2010
Is Paula Deen Scary Enough to Be Your Halloween Costume? Um, That Would Be a Yes.
Scary: Guy Fieri.Stumped for a great Halloween costume this year? Check out CHOW's excellent gallery of food-celebrity costumes. Some are scary, like the Paula Deen, complete with lightning-white teeth. Others are just, well, awesome, like the purple-draped Alice Waters or slightly slutty Mic ... More >>
News
January 5, 2011
Students Breathe Easier as CUNY's Proficiency Exam Bites the Dust
Scary: Guy Fieri.Stumped for a great Halloween costume this year? Check out CHOW's excellent gallery of food-celebrity costumes. Some are scary, like the Paula Deen, complete with lightning-white teeth. Others are just, well, awesome, like the purple-draped Alice Waters or slightly slutty Mic ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Yes, Foodies Are Ridiculous. But Then So Is B.R. Myers!
B.R. MyersIn the March issue of The Atlantic, vegan, curmudgeon, North Korea expert, and animal-rights activist B.R. Myers goes after foodies in an article entitled "The Moral Crusade Against Foodies." I've got to admit, we've given him a very broad target. He begins by extracting damning q ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Hard-Nosed Chefs Say The Customer Can Be Wrong; David Chang Heads to Canada
The customer is not always right at restaurants like Zucco: Le French Diner, Spotted Pig, and Momofuku, where the house insists its food is served a certain way, no substitutions or alterations allowed. [NY Times] A new bill in California would ban the sale and possession of shark fins, incl ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Food Day 2011 Will Attempt to Get America to 'Eat Real'
Since 1981, World Food Day has come around every October to increase awareness and understanding of hunger, and promote actions to alleviate it. But its scope is just so planetary, so mindful of countries that don't suffer from an overabundance of junk food, subsidized corn, and diabetic thir ... More >>
Film
June 8, 2011
Bad News From the Bees in Queen of the Sun
Since 1981, World Food Day has come around every October to increase awareness and understanding of hunger, and promote actions to alleviate it. But its scope is just so planetary, so mindful of countries that don't suffer from an overabundance of junk food, subsidized corn, and diabetic thir ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Now That The Food Pyramid's Gone, Maybe the Food Label Will Follow
Renee WalkerEarlier this summer, the USDA retired its food pyramid, which was getting a little long in the tooth, in favor of a food plate. And while it's been praised for its relative clarity and lack of crudely drawn livestock, the food nutrition label has continued to confuse people. But n ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
A Fork in the Road Guide to Greenmarket Etiquette
Robert Sietsema Farmers markets are a bit like inebriation: they have a way of amplifying the best and worst parts of one's personality, of shaving away pleasantries to reveal a certain hard nut of truth about human nature. And they're also like an open-air subway car, particularly on Saturd ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
New Polls Reveal Americans Aren't Happy With Food System
KB35, Flickr, CCIs Michael Pollan's message sinking in? Are Americans finally tired of wolfing down government-subsidized Doritos (R.I.P. Arch West) and Big Macs? According to a new poll, the answer is an encouraging, although by no means overwhelming, yes. Recently, Mark Bittman pointed to t ... More >>

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