Who owns our food? Documentary film

The Future of Food Free Documentary from Deborah Koons Garcia on Vimeo.

Summer and fall 2010 workshop registrations now open


Workshop schedules for Summer and Fall 2010 are now up. As a result of suggestions from participants in prior workshops, I’ve added more practical stuff in the kitchen – how to make quick and tasty meals, how to increase�

Watch out kids! Marketing ahead!

Are they serious? Just came across the NabiscoWorld website and this is the (in tiny print) message at the bottom of the page:

“Hi kids, when you see “Ad Break” it means you are viewing a commercial message

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The Good Life?

In a recent blog post Dr Yoni Freedhoff, family doctor and bariatric specialist talks about what he calls the “Good-Life Syndrome” of many of his clients; the desire to “enjoy the good life” and the associated heavy meals, alcohol�

This is supposed to be food for kids?

This fun little news item has made the secondary headlines around the world: In order to find out just how effective the preservatives used in large segments of the U.S. food system actually are Joann Bruso, a Denver area grandmother�

Peanut Butter and Millet Soup

All over West Africa, groundnuts are used commonly in everyday cooking. In this recipe I’ve used peanut butter to substitute for groundnuts but I’ve maintained a lot of the typical West African spices. The Aleppo pepper, the chilies and the�

Fast Food vs. Home Cooking

This past february 4th Sierra Filucci, reporter for the Sacramento News and Review brings us the story of her young modern family trapped between the desire to feed themselves ethically, responsibly and sustainably and the pressures of modern�

Making good fish choices?

Several recent mainstream media articles have highlighted different aspects of the industry that provides us with fish to eat. As large numbers in the developing world strive match our North American lifestyle – their increased consumption of animal and fish�

Experiment of the week


Daniel Vaudrin, one of the participants in this winter’s session of the Radical Eating workshops just posted this result for his experiment of the week….
Dan cooked two chickens in his slow cooker. He standardised the ingredients, the�

Fertilizer Is Acidifying Chinese Land

In this eye-opening article from Science Now, Mara Hvistendahl reports on how the huge increase in fertiliser use by Chinese farmers is rapidly rendering the land infertile and potentially toxic. abuse of chemical fertilizers is becoming a hazard for�