tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60277642011-04-21T10:43:11.095-07:00Slow Food BlogA view from inside the Slow Food MovementKurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08787767605963335531noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027764.post-1114018545711783932005-04-20T10:35:00.000-07:002005-04-20T10:35:45.713-07:00May 2005Of Suicide Genes and Speaking Truth to PowerYour rights were reduced a little more last month.The Iowa Legislature voted to support House File 642, which prohibits local communities from banning genetically modified seed, and sent it off to the Biotech industry’s hip pocket where Governor Vilsack signed it into law. Here’s what happened and how.In far-flung places like Vermont and Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08787767605963335531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027764.post-1113675125462612402005-04-16T11:11:00.000-07:002005-04-16T11:12:05.470-07:00New York in BlueA Brief Stint in the Big Apple (and environs) Kim and I had occasion to visit the center of the known universe last weekend, and despite the fact that, being a Chicago boy, I tend to haze & disrespect New York mercilessly, we did have a marvelous time. I've lots of wonderful food to discuss and plenty of recommendations. Dig in. Just up the river from NYC, in Westchester county Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08787767605963335531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027764.post-1111193279038527322005-03-18T19:00:00.000-08:002005-03-18T17:07:46.546-08:00Renewing America’s Food TraditionsThe Chinese philosopher and academic Lin Yutang once said, “What is patriotism but love of the food we ate as children?”Dr. Lin’s transcendent idea cuts across cultural boundaries and demonstrates that food, as the clearest material example of a parents love, forms our earliest understanding of home. The location of your family when you were born, to a large Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08787767605963335531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027764.post-1111192820399237102005-03-18T16:37:00.000-08:002005-03-18T16:57:22.866-08:00Planting a Seed - The Philosophy of Stewardship“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” –Genesis 1:24-26Springtime brings us that special sensation of rebirth, the belief that we can Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08787767605963335531noreply@blogger.com