Food&Drink:
Sometimes obvious solutions to seemingly overwhelming problems are overlooked. What could be more American, more humble, than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? And yet one activist suggests a PB and J a day could help slow global warming. (...
Posted on August 6, 2007 11:37 AM • 1 Comments •
Without a water source, developers building luxury resorts, orchards and wineries off the water grid aren't taking any chances. Some are hiring witchers as well as geologists, pitting them against each other in the water hunt. Meanwhile, some well drillers...
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Posted on August 3, 2007 11:21 AM • 2 Comments •
Some folklorists have cited the five-second rule as an invention of Genghis Khan (who supposedly called it the 20-hour rule), but there's no proof. Medieval etiquette books make no prohibition against eating off the floor; in fact, it was standard...
Posted on July 29, 2007 11:48 AM • 0 Comments •
As the benefits of locally grown produce become readily apparent, a growing number of consumers are abandning grocery aisles in favor of shaking the dirt from lettuce leaves themselves. As more people seem to be satisfying a need to connect...
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Posted on July 26, 2007 11:02 AM • 0 Comments •
In Israel and the occupied territories hummus brings people together, more than just an appetizer the savory dish is as much a part of the cultural landscape as slice pizza is to New Yorkers. It's a culinary icon that's a...
Posted on July 25, 2007 6:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Animal rights actvists have learned that with less stridency comes more respect and influence in food politics. So they no longer concentrate their energy on burning effigies of Colonel Sanders and stealing chickens. They don't demonize meat -- with the...
Posted on July 25, 2007 1:23 PM • 2 Comments •
One-quarter of adult New Yorkers, roughly 1.4 million people, have elevated levels of mercury in their blood, mainly from eating certain fish, according to survey results released yesterday by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The elevated mercury...
Posted on July 24, 2007 12:40 PM • 3 Comments •
The Chinese government has no qualms jailing would-be whistle blowers and and enterprising journalists exposing corruption in order to squash dissent among its citizens. Are the benefits of low cost imports really worth the price of freedom and the health...
Posted on July 19, 2007 11:15 AM • 4 Comments •
When the UN imposed sanctions on diamond exports from Liberia in 2001 the president Charles Taylor - who is now standing trial for crimes against humanity in The Hague - plundered his country's forests to bankroll his brutal, cross-border wars....
Posted on July 17, 2007 11:17 AM • 0 Comments •
It's called kopi luwak, from the Indonesian words for coffee and civet, and by the time it reaches the shelves of swish foreign food emporiums, devotees fork out as much as $600 for a pound -- if they can even...
Posted on July 16, 2007 9:10 AM • 1 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
