This originally appeared as a guest post at Fed Up with Lunch on June 8.
Can you name a federal program that provides vital services to 10 percent of the U.S. population every day, yet has not a single reporter from the mainstream media assigned to cover it on a sustained basis?
That would be the federal school [...]
Entries Tagged as 'food news'
Reporting on School Food: I’m the Maytag Repairman
June 13th, 2010 · No Comments · kids, school food
Tags: Food Blogs·food news
Lobbying Against Junk Food
June 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Wellness, kids, politics
My mother didn’t raise me to be a lobbyist. But there I was on Wednesday, jawboning congressmen and aides to the U.S. Senate on the virtues of legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to prohibit junk food in the nation’s schools.
Say bye, bye to vending machines spewing chips, candy bars, sugary sodas.
If [...]
Tags: Congress·food news·school lunches·USDA
It’s Not the Burger, It’s the Bun: A Defense of Meat
April 22nd, 2009 · 9 Comments · Blog
Does red meat cause cancer? How about heart disease? Or could we solve global warming if we just stopped eating beef?
Every day the headlines declare another reason not to eat meat. But I’m thinking of three million reasons why red meat has been very, very good to the human race. That would be about the [...]
Tags: carbohydrates·fats·food fads·food news·Food Politics·meat·nutrition·pickles
Bittman Takes a Bite Out of Snapper
April 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blog
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman last week published a recipe for red snapper (listed as “avoid” by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program) and was quite rightly called out by avenging Grist author Tom Philpott.
Philpott was, I would contend, overly generous toward Bittman, who described the posting of a red snapper recipe as [...]
The Garden Spread in People
April 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blog
We’re in the People magazine issue dated April 20, the one with John Travolta on the cover that is appearing on news stands today. Beginning on page 123 there are several “before” and “after” photos of Americans turning their lawns into food gardens. Look for us in the Dr. Greenthumb box on page 127. That’s [...]
Tags: food news
Welcome, People Readers
April 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
If you’ve arrived at this site from People magazine, you probably have an interest in starting a food garden or learning more about how to grow your own food. You may also be wondering what’s behind the name “Slow Cook.”
I guess you could say I am part of a growing movement in this country [...]
Tags: food news·Gardening Blogs·press
Pardon the Interruption….
April 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
The Slow Cook is expecting to be featured in an article about vegetable gardening in People magazine scheduled to hit news stands tomorrow, April 10. We’ve been told to brace for a flood of visitors to this blog.
Hence, beginning tomorrow, and perhaps for several days, we will be displaying prominently a post on resources [...]
Tags: food news
News Bites
April 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Fresh Fruits & Vegetables on the Decline…
The Produce for Better Health Foundation reports that families as a result of poor economic conditions are buying fewer fresh fruits and vegetables. A survey of mothers finds that fruit consumption has dropped 12 percent in the last year while vegetable purchases are down 6 percent.
The drop is [...]
Tags: food news
Watch Slow Cook on Television
March 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This must be the week when the news media wake up to spring and want to interview The Slow Cook in his garden.
We’ve been interviewed about chickens by WAMU radio, appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi show to talk about food gardening and yesterday we entertained a film crew from FOX News to talk about [...]
Tags: food news·Gardening Blogs
Hear Slow Cook on the Radio
March 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
The Slow Cook is scheduled to talk about urban food gardening on the Kojo Nnamdi show at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 (tomorrow).
Kojo, a popular host on WAMU radio here in the District of Columbia,is located at 88.5 FM locally. You can also listen to him live on the internet here. The program is usually [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
