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Check out Edibkle Nation, the official blogspot of the Edible Communities publications. Just getting rolling, but very well done by the fellah who did the ubiquitous Saute Wednesday Blog
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I heard on NPR yesterday that one of his nicknames at the paper was Jonny "3 Lunches" Apple !!!
A life well lived. Hope I earn a nickname that good someday.
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What aspects of his food writing will folks remember? I always felt that his writing had a sort of "roll up your sleeves, get your elbows on the table, and dig in" quality.
Definitely. He was all about good grub, and did not suffer snobs lightly.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- R.W. Apple Jr., the longtime New York Times correspondent who charted the fall of Richard Nixon and covered wars from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf while having a parallel career as a food and travel writer, died Wednesday. He was 71.
Apple died in Washington early Wednesday after a long bout with thoracic cancer, the newspaper said.
Sadly I remember him best for some disparraging comments about the Heartland and its food, but he was a great writer and a true professional. He will be sorely missed.
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Good call on the Golden Ridge - unbelievable. I assume you also have Simone in there. Did a pizza dinner at her place this summer that was well nigh close to perfect.
Glad you got to go to Simone's, it's a real treat, like dining in a Grant Wood painting. She was one of our original Slow Food members here (we started with 4 and now have 62, as well as 4 more convivia statewide - not bad
)Simone is also one of the famers in our CSA, Local Harvest, which is hte best run one in the area IMHO.
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Maytag's good, Ronnie, but have you tried Schwarz und Weiss or Harmony Blue from Golden Ridge Cheese in Cresco? Blows Maytag out of the water
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La Quercia artisan cured meats:
Another good call. Herb & Kathy Eckhouse debuted their prosciutto di Americano at Slow Food Iowa's Field to Family festival last year.
It's great stuff, and anyone who hasn't tried it should go out of there way to find it.
What else is out there gang?
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I am an avid reader of
Slice
A Hamburger Today
http://www.ahamburgertoday.com
and for news, I check
http://www.accidentalhedonist.com
and
I agree that sautewednesday is great, and everyone should note that the same great minds behind it are now hard at work on EdibleNation.com, the blogging arm of the wildly successful Edible Communities Magazines
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There is Lincoln Cafe in Mt. Vernon run by a good friend, Matt Steigerwald. He definitely is on the local/sustainable team, and his food is fantastic; like it says so here.
Thanks for that, yep we've got him, in fact he was kind enough to buy an ad with Edible, so we like him even more.
Matt was one of the first we turned to. While he was building his gem on the prairie in Mt. Vernon, he spent several months working for us at Devotay. A great guy with real talent - Lincoln Cafe is doing very well.
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I'm looking to all you Heartland Gulleteers to help me out.
I am launching a new magazine, "Edible Iowa River Valley," and while I know the area fairly well, I don't know it all. So please post your recs for the best food, best farmers, best artisans in the region that runs from the Des Moines/Ames metro east to the Mississippi, and I'll try to get some recognition for the folks who are doing the local/sustainable thing really well.
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I'm also coming to Terrra Madre in October, from Vancouver, and was thinking of doing a stage while I'm there.
Can anyone reccomend someone in the area I should contact about a stage?
Cheers
Why not check with the University of Gastronomic Sciences? They're a Slow food enterprise, and do lots of stages for their students - perhaps they know of others?
I will also be going up; to slow food. don't know if I will also get to Terre Madre.. do you have to be involved..a chef or producer?Most of it is for delegates only, but there will be some sessions open to the public.
The details areHERE
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I've just purchased Edible San Francisco, which means I'm now the publisher, editor, ad sales rep, design and layout specialist, distributor, photographer, etc. It also means I'm currently buried, drowning, slammed (pick one) under a deadline.
The best explanation in regards to how the Edible Publications work can be found at the EC website. Here's a link to the FAQ:
hello Bruce,
I have a couple of your issues here. I especially liked the Andy Griffin article "Tears in the Milk" in this past spring's issue.
I'm running Edible here in the Iowa River Valley. Our first issue hits stands in October, and Tracey and Carole will be here next week. We're scrambling for ads and finishing up our editing from the 12 writers we've recruited. it's exhausting but invigorating!
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I've picked up one issue of Edible Sacramento but haven't seen another one since. It had some interesting articles in it.
When was that? it's a quarterly, so the next one may not be out yet.
What did you see in it that you liked or didn't like? Would you (if your business is appropriate) consider advertising in it? Why or why not?
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I'm proud to announce that on October 8th, the first issue of Edible Iowa River Valley will hit the stands here in eastern Iowa, joining 18 other members of Edible Communities, a family of locally produced magazines throughout the country covering the very best of the local food scene.
Has anyone here on eGullet heard of these? Do you read them in your community? If you don't have one in your area, do you think it would work there?
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What is a bit scary to me is that there seems to be a growing movement of people who are setting themselves up as arbiters of what we should be eating (or not eating).
First we get the overheated arguments that we have a crises.
Then comes the demonization--the evil empire--the enemy (in this case a fast food chain).
Next when the warnings don't seem to be working-- the rationale is established--"they can't help themselves!--they are addicted!"
and we have the calls for bans for regulations--we can't save ourselves we are helpless so we need to be saved!
again--this is not just about MacDonald's or fast food chains-- it is about hamburgers it is about beef--it is about choice.
"I have seen the enemy, and he is us" - Pogo (Walt Kelly, 1958)
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While there are those out there who are overheated about just about any argument one would care to make, I would not say that Mr. Schlosser is one of them. His argument is from the point of view of an investigative journalist who looked into an issue and reported what he found. He does not say that you should or shouldn't do anything, just that these are the facts he has uncovered.
While Morgan Spurlock might be accused of saying some folks are addicted, I don't think you'd get that fromSchlosser's book. As for the movie, I really don't know what to expect from it.
I also would suggest that Schlosser offers no regulatory or goveernmental solutions whatsoever, and acknowledges that it is indeed a choice. He argues only that it should be an informed choice.
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Thanks and thanks. Yes I did see those debates, and to me they came off like this:
Schlosser: Your food is bad for people, the environment, animals and our health system
McD's: Yeah, but we're getting better
Schlosser: Perhaps, but not better enough
McD's: Well can't you just give us credit for trying
Schlosser: I have, but the changes in the UK are miniscule compared what needs to be done in the US and worldwide
McD's: Nuh-uh
Schlosser: Ya-huh
I'd love to see a formal, Harvard style debate on the subject. Meanwhile, the movie looks like fun.
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Well, I can't get the extra credit, because I have neither read nor seen A Scanner Darkly, however, here's what I had to say about Fast Food Nation when the book was released, from a review I published online and in the local paper.
Fast Food NationBy Eric Schlosser,
Published in 2001
by Houghton-Mifflin, New York.
Reviewed By: Chef Kurt Michael Friese
Copyright © Kurt Michael Friese, 2001, All Rights Reserved, Reproduced with Permission from myself.
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
In a world where he could, given enough time and publicity, have an impact similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Atlantic Monthly's correspondent Eric Schlosser has written a well-researched exposé of an American business marvel - fast food.
Schlosser finds the roots of this post-war phenomenon in such unusual coincidences as the fact that McDonald's founder Ray Kroc served in the same WWI ambulance corps as Walt Disney. From there he traces the impact fast food has had on the world, its economy, its people and its cultures. Fast food has led to what he calls the "malling of America." It is an industry that, while founded by big business outsiders, has led to a standardization of taste that is reaching around the globe.
It even led to this bizarre and ironic spectacle: after noting that the ancient Romans once paraded the kings of conquered nations through the streets of Rome to the Circus, Schlosser takes us to a fast food franchiser's convention in Las Vegas in 1999. The keynote speaker? "Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, winner of the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, and the Nobel Peace Prize) was at the Grand Ballroom of the Mirage, giving the keynote speech before a fast food convention."
The book shows how the McDonald's corporation came to control the beef industry (by being it's largest customer) while this fast food giant makes more of its money from being the world's largest holder of commercial real estate than it does from selling food. One statement from McDonald's got testing equipment for the deadly food-borne pathogen e coli 0157-h7 into almost every major meatpacking house in America. Yet since McDonald's has shown comparatively little regard for the workers in those plants, meatpacking remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. 1 in 3 workers is injured to a point beyond mere first aid every year. We learn the story of Kenny Dobbins, of Keokuk, Iowa, who was worked very nearly to death by the meatpacking industry. There are stories of actual deaths, too, of drowning in chemical vats and being shot during late-night hold-ups at burger joints.
Though he never mentions it by name, Schlosser has written a 270 page rock-solid argument for the need for the Slow Food Movement. Fast Food Nation may just startle and anger enough people to make a real difference in the world.
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The trailer for Fast Food Nation is now upon YouTube.com.
I believe that given enough exposure, the book and (hopefully) the movie can have the same sort of positive effects as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle had 90 years ago. With the caveat that, as Sinclair himself said, "It is difficult to convince some of something when when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it."
What do you think?
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YES! Glad you agree Ron. I too think Paul's place may be the best in Chicago, and can't wait to get back to try Avec, I love the concept and the menu is right up my alley.
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Yes, I have a large cookbook collection and a modest collection of antique kitchen tools, but what I hope to leave with my children is an understanding that cooking is not a chore. It is not like doing the windows or the laundry.
Cooking is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is what makes us who we are, and therefore should be approached with both reverence and passion. I believe they already undertand that when cook for them it is how I show them my love, like my parents and grandparents did for me. I hope they carry on that tradition.
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Those who are interested in this topic should take a look at this summationof the Times article
New York Times: High-fructose corn syrup gets "a bad rap"Above all, do not read the headline of this New York Times article about high-fructose corn syrup. Do not read the sub-headings. Do not read the opening anecdote or the closing foolishness.
These book-ends reflect the worst of "flavor-of-the-day" health and science journalism. In this brand of journalism, what you thought was unhealthy yesterday is always healthy today. And, for excitement and novelty, it will always be unhealthy again tomorrow.
The spin of the headline and opening grabber paragraphs ruins an otherwise competent article.
In the sensible body of the article, you will find that leading experts such as Barry Popkin and Walter Willett are very concerned about rapid increases in consumption of soda and other sweetened beverages in recent decades. These beverages rank with the switch from home cooking to fast-food diets and the adoption of sedentary lifestyles as leading causes of the obesity epidemic.
Much of the sugar in these beverages, and scattered throughout the rest of the food supply in places you would never expect, comes from high-fructose corn syrup.
In the sensible body of the article, you will find that this corn syrup should never be considered "natural." It comes from an industrial chemical process that cannot be reproduced in your kitchen.
But, the book-ends. Arrghh!
And also check out a similar thread to this one located HERE
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The clause on my menu that addresses this issue says it about as well as I can put it:
"We change the menu according to the seasons, the market, or Chef Kurt's whim."
This way we keep it interesting, fresh, and local.
Nearly everything rotates on and off my menu. The 2 items I can remove are the Paella (we're a tapas restaurant, after all) and the ensalata de pollo (chicken salad). If I removed the chicken salad I am convinced that the City Council would call a special session to address the situation.
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And this just in from the Folks at Tadre's Poiint Creamery in Zionsville, Indiana:
Slow food International has accepted the nominations of seven farmers from the Traders Point Green Market to represent Central Indiana at Terre Madre 2006. Terre Madre is a world gathering of small sustainable farmers that takes place in Turin Italy every two years. It is truly a gathering of small farmers from around the world and such places as Ecuador, Mongolia, Niger, and the Caribbean. Two years ago our local convivium, Slow Food Indy, sent three farmers to the Terre Madre and I was lucky enough to be one of them. The diversity of cultures, networking opportunities, information exchange, and education that took place over the five-day conference was an eye opener for all of us Hoosier farmers. We came back inspired and set to work to advocate and orchestrate action to support small local farms and the creation of a more vibrant local food economy. The seven nominated to go to Terre Madre this year, are all Green Market vendors, and include Alan and Mary Yegerlehner (the Swiss Connection), Roger and Beverly Sharritt (Sharritt Market Gardens), Debbie and Braden Apple (Apple Family Farm) and Jeff Evard (One Sky Farm).The housing, food, and conference costs for the five-day event is paid for by Slow Food International and the Italian government. This leaves only the round trip airfare to be covered by the participant farmer. Slow Food Indy is raising money to help provide for the travel expenses of sending Indiana’s seven representatives to Terre Madre. For our first event we will hold a benefit dinner at the Huddleston Farmhouse Inn Museum, just east of Richmond Indiana, on Sunday, July 16, at 5PM.
keep up the good work, SFIndy!
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Since Terra Madre 2004, Slow Food has continued to work with food communities all over the world.
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity funds Presidia to protect and promote traditional community products threatened with extinction.
TRAINING EXCHANGES have been organized to enable food communities to share experiences, gather information and develop appropriate production methods and strategies of promotion and control. About 100 producers from 15 countries were involved in exchanges in 2004 and 2005.
Slow Food is working to support and restore FARMERS’ MARKETS. It was initiated with a project in Mali, promoted by former Minister of Culture Aminata Traoré and supported by the country’s food communities to restructure the old fruit and vegetable market in the national capital, Bamako.
Slow Food USA has created the TERRA MADRE KATRINA RELIEF FUND, with proceeds from private donations and convivium events throughout the US, to support Gulf of Mexico food communities hit by hurricane Katrina in summer 2005. The beneficiaries — 12 fishermen, farmers and restaurateurs (Leah Chase among them)— will be at Terra Madre 2006 to share their experiences with producers from other continents. To date more than $30K has been raised.
Ethnic Markets in the Heartland
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Iowa City has a great bodega with the best chicken taco on the planet and excellent tamales. It's called La Reyna, and they're about to open a small, simple cafe next door.
It's on Keokuk across from Kmart.