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POPSFood needs 'fundamental rethink' "Essentially, what we are dealing with at the moment is a food system that was laid down in the 1940s," he told BBC News. It followed on from the dust bowl in the US, the collapse of food production in Europe and starvation in Asia.
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POPSFreeganism Freegans - The ultimate frugalists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources". The website freegan.info states that freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed." The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters that have passed their display date but haven't passed their edible date. They salvage the food not because they are poor or homeless, but as a political statement. The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan". Freeganism started in the mid 1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. Groups such as Food Not Bombs served free vegetarian and vegan food that wa
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POPSEating seasonally I wonder if there are any sources of local information for Canada -- Ottawa, Ontario, specifically???
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POPSHidden Kitchens (NCPR radio show) One of the benefits of being an early riser is that I get to hear some fantastic and totally different radio programming on CBC World Service overnight radio. This is an absolutely fascinating radio show about food. Some unique, unusual, really interesting food/eating stories from around the world by "The Kitchen Sisters".
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POPS[MORE...] Food not Lawns: The website Lawns can be replaced with perpetually self-sustaining, thriving human habitats. Diverse environments with greenery, flowers, animals, birds. Sounds like a very palatable, enjoyable replacement for lawns -- those life sucking systems on permanent life support! Hey, maybe we could even turn grass clippings into fuel for automobiles??
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POPSFood Not Lawns These statistics are absolutely mind boggling. What are we humans thinking... dedicating so much of the planets resources to grow a totally useless crop -- grass!
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POPS2008: International Year of the Potato (IYP) Official launch of IYP ================ The International Year of the Potato 2008 was officially launched on 18 October 2007 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. More calendar trivia from Eric "Calendarwallah" Snyder =======================
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POPSEthnic Food Yesterday, I got this hair-brained idea that a "calendaring" habit could improve the eating experience of hospital patients / institutional residents. What do you folks think? Do I need more sleep? Or is this something that just possibly might work?
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POPSEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants I heard an interview with author, Michael Pollan, on CBC radio in the car last night. Either I was very receptive, or what he was saying made absolute simple sense which seemed to cut through all the BS about nutrition, health, etc. that we are bombarded with 24/7.
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POPSAll About Bananas I've been eating 1/2 banana per day in my daily breakfast smoothie. Looks like that's a good thing!
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POPSDiversity sells... Supermarket News has an "Ethnic/specialty" section. And SN is sponsoring "Healthy Food International" exposition and conference in June/08.
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POPSArax Restaurant This restaurant was located on Eglinton Avenue in the 80's. The restaurant, the food and owner, Raffy Asperian, are one of my most memorable restaurants ever.
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