Posts Tagged ‘organic food’
Daily Food Blog Roundup: Daily Newspaper Edition
Wednesday, as dedicated newspaper readers know (all six of you who don’t rely on blogs for news), is the day that papers around the country publish their Food sections. Today’s edition of Food Blog Roundup plucks both blog and print items for your gastronomic amusement.
- Bitten knows that every seed is sacred.
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Serious Eat’s Levine: Food Issues Not a High Priority for Obama
Thank God for Ed Levine over at Serious Eats. He’s not afraid to speak his mind about food, the problems of his ongoing diet, or the issues that Barack Obama (aka, Mr. Hope and Change) can actually address during his coming administration. Sustainability, organics, and other food issues won’t be among them, he believes. Writes Levine:
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Laura Bennett Attacks Food Nazi Mom
Laura Bennett, the architect cum fashion designer cum writer, published a withering column this weekend attacking an anonymous mother who wanted to revoke her ex-husband’s custody rights because of some unpardonable sin he committed against their kids. Writes Bennett:
She told me that he had crossed a line with her kids on a recent visitation, and she was going to have her lawyer work on getting his joint custody rights revoked. She felt her case was ironclad, he had “obviously acted wrongly” and “anyone would agree with her.”
“What did he do?” I had to ask, bracing myself for some juicy gossip. Surely this would involve sex and drugs, his babe girlfriend naked, or strippers at the very least.
And then she told me her ex’s transgressions. He had packed a non-organic lunch for her sons. Seriously. She went on to describe the brown bags loaded with Cheetos, Go-gurt, and a sandwich that was made with white bread.
Once Bennett recovered from her slack-jawed shock, she let the off-the-beaten trail mix mom have it with both barrels—from the safety of her computer screen where she typed up this rant for The Daily Beast. Bennett has a point, several in fact, even if she didn’t have nads, so to speak, to confront the crunchy, lunatic mom in person. Here is Bennett’s main gripe:
