pollanesque

Admin: open posts

sheafrotherdon wrote in pollanesque Mar 19, 2011 12:28

A reminder (and perhaps new information for some of our new members!) - please make sure that your posts to this community are unlocked. If you have your own journal set to friends-lock by default, this will carry over to your community posts. We'd like all the information here to be open to anyone who stops by, so please take a couple of moments ( Read more... )

admin

(Untitled)

sirdentofdoom wrote in pollanesque Mar 17, 2011 20:03

Hey ( Read more... )

Foodie Intentions

e_phemera wrote in pollanesque Mar 17, 2011 11:45

I'm tired of feeling like crap about the food I'm eating. Too many restaurant meals out; too much junk food; too much overly processed food ( Read more... )

Links: all about food

sheafrotherdon wrote in pollanesque Mar 06, 2011 11:22

There's some great food writing in the New York Times this weekend:

In New Food Culture, A Young Generation of Farmers Emerges.

Now, Mr. Jones, 30, and his wife, Alicia, 27, are among an emerging group of people in their 20s and 30s who have chosen farming as a career. Many shun industrial, mechanized farming and list punk rock, Karl Marx and the ( Read more... )

links, recipes: soups, region: usa, things to read

Oatmeal: comfort & convenience

e_phemera wrote in pollanesque Feb 23, 2011 14:54

Oatmeal is one of my very favorite comfort foods, cooked with milk, served nice thick and warm. Perhaps further garnished with a TB or so of granola, or sliced fruit. And, if I want to change it up, couscous also makes a nice breakfast cereal ( Read more... )

USDA Process Verified.

eqfe wrote in pollanesque Feb 23, 2011 13:37

Did my food shopping today, and purchased a rather large Perdue Oven Stuffer Roaster, which advertised that it was raised cage free, vegetable fed, hormone and steroid free. The label read "USDA Processed Verified." I'm not familiar with this program. Can anyone shed some light on it>

cross posted to naturalfamily

A documentary of interest

lovebri wrote in pollanesque Feb 22, 2011 11:51

With all the bad news in the world, I always appreciate documentaries, books, or anything that brings a little hope and inspiration to the picture. Today, it was this one ( Read more... )

Trade offs

eqfe wrote in pollanesque Feb 19, 2011 18:45

"Eat food, not too much, mainly plants ( Read more... )

To Read: Why Aren't GMO Foods Labeled?

lacylu42 wrote in pollanesque Feb 17, 2011 10:04

Excellent blog from Mark Bittman about GMOs and the recent GM crops that have been approved by the FDA:

It’s unlikely that these products’ potential benefits could possibly outweigh their potential for harm. But even more unbelievable is that the F.D.A.and the U.S.D.A. will not require any of these products, or foods containing them, to be ( Read more... )

things to read

Talking Turkey: Kingsolver, Foer, Colbert, Rowe & me

e_phemera wrote in pollanesque Feb 17, 2011 10:47

I'm currently reading several books of on topic interest to this community. Besides the titles on mindful eating that I recently posted about, I also have Barbara Kingsolver's ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: A Year of Food Life in hand. It's a wonderful book, well written and chocked full of recipes, entertaining anecdotes, and information about her ( Read more... )