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One thought on food and community

Within thirty minutes yesterday, I found two completely different stories about food and community. I listened to the first while washing the dishes, a podcast of the Kitchen Sisters’ “Breadbasket...

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Sausalito

The skies were grey, the temperature was cool, and a fine mist was drizzling down the day (several years ago now) I took a ferry from San Francisco’s Pier 39 to Sausalito for a couple hours of...

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The water in meat. Plus, a recipe

Here’s a great recipe I threw together last night for dinner. It’s completely meatless, using only the weekend’s leftovers and normal pantry items: I heated a tablespoon of sesame chili oil in the wok...

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HFCS, a gloppy monster

I have to say that I was thrilled to see this headline in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle: “High fructose corn syrup cut from Hunt’s recipe.” I’m not against sweet things. Sugar cane,...

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Got water?

Definitely go and watch the excellent documentary Tapped. As soon as you can, before the next episode of Jon Stewart or Married to Rock, or whatever your viewing pleasure may be. Then go out and...

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Drinking my vegetables

“Tiny pellets of poison” what a friend calls peas. Personally, I don’t have any problem with peas as long as they’re not mushy and are mixed in a creamy white sauce, tossed with penne, and topped with...

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Second Harvest fundraiser needs donations

This is a call for help! This Saturday, December 15, our friend Nick Alaga is doing a mile-long swim around the Santa Cruz Wharf with his group Will Swim For Food. Their goal is to raise $40,000 for...

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More than half a plate of vegetables

You know about MyPlate, right? It’s the UDSA’s replacement food pyramid that illustrates how, for optimum nutrition, fully half of our plates should consist of fruits and vegetables. What do you...

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Tom Colicchio’s movie about hunger: A Place at the Table

James Beard award-winning celebrity chef, cookbook author, Top Chef executive producer and judge, the brains and talent behind the Craft and ‘wichcraft restaurant empire, bald salad ruiner, and...

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