JOSH FRIEDLAND | | 2012: The Year in Food Words | foie·kage fee (noun): When California's ban on foie gras took effect this summer ("foiemageddon"), some restaurants protested by using a loophole in the law to charge a fee (akin to a corkage fee for wine) to prepare liver purcahsed in another state. See also: "duckeasies," a spin on prohibition-era speakeasies. Continue reading... | | PETE DOROGOFF | | TV Dinners: Kiss My Grits! | The Food Network can go kiss my grits. I find myself watching the channel all the time, tuning into the numerous cooking shows and their celebrity chefs with catchy monikers. I sit transfixed with feelings of inadequacy. Continue reading... | |
MAISIE GREENAWALT | | My Holiday Wish: Let's Change the Lives of America's Farmworkers | The physical conditions in the tomato fields were extreme. No shade, oppressively hot, with workers running with many pounds of tomatoes on their shoulders. I stood there fully aware that these workers are routinely exploited and sometimes physically enslaved. I had seen the overcrowded worker housing. Continue reading... | | |
KAREN KARP | | Rebuilding Sandy-Afflicted Neighborhoods... With Healthy Food Options | As efforts progress to rebuild New York City neighborhoods significantly broken by Hurricane Sandy, we would be wise to address a lingering problem afflicting these and other communities: access to healthy food. Continue reading... | | HALLE EAVELYN | | Baking 6 Dozen Cookies on the Nile Can be Done | On our current tour of Egypt, some members of our group asked for home-baked cookies. We were sailing up the Nile aboard our private cruise ship, the Afandina, so I asked our chef to take care of it. Continue reading... | |
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