Nieuwe Media, Biologisch winkelen bij MarQt: “Vandaag opent MarQt zijn deuren aan de Amsterdamse Overtoom. Dit ‘vernieuwende winkelconcept’ (een hippe biologische supermarkt, zeg maar) pakt het viraal aan, met een mailtje van oprichter Quirijn Bolle aan zijn netwerk, inclusief een link naar een winkelreportage op YouTube.”
Entries Tagged as 'food'
Big Foot
February 20th, 2008
Michael Specter in The New Yorker, Big Foot. In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science: “Possessing an excessive carbon footprint is rapidly becoming the modern equivalent of wearing a scarlet letter. Because neither the goals nor acceptable emissions limits are clear, however, morality is often mistaken for science. A recent article [...]
Tags: carbon emissions · co2 · environment · food
I Love You, but You Love Meat
February 13th, 2008
NY Times, I Love You, but You Love Meat: ““I went out with one guy who said I seemed really great but he liked bread too much to date me,” said Ms. James, 41, a writer in Seattle who cannot eat gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. Sharing meals has always been [...]
Tags: food
Tegenlicht Interview Michael Pollan
January 28th, 2008
VPRO’s Tegenlicht: de integrale versie van het interview met Michael Pollan. Tegenlicht uitzending: De toekomst van ons voedsel: landbouw of laboratorium? (maandag 28 januari 2008, 21:00 Ned 2)
Tags: food · health · michael pollan · tv
Michael Pollans ‘In Defence of Food’ – 2 extracts
January 8th, 2008
Michael Pollan, In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating (eerder) Extract 1/2: Consuming passion: “That eating should be first and foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and destructive idea – destructive not just of the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our [...]
Tags: food · health · michael pollan · wining and dining
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food. An Eater’s Manifesto.
January 3rd, 2008
In Defense of Food. An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan. Morning Edition, ‘In Defense of Food’ Author Offers Advice for Health (interview): “”Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” (…) The implication of Pollan’s advice, however, is that what we’re eating now isn’t food.” Slate, The Holy Church of Food: “There’s always been a streak of [...]
Tags: food · health · michael pollan · wining and dining
De Keuken van Tante Til
December 14th, 2007
nl20: “Bilal omschrijft zijn keuken als een wereldkeuken. Naast Hollandse gehaktballen kun je hier terecht voor een groenteschotel met lamsvlees of een pasta . Knoflook en uien zijn de basis voor een goed gerecht. “Dat is gezond. En ik gebruik veel Turkse kruiden”, vertelt Bilal. Typisch Tante Til is bijvoorbeeld een Italiaanse lasagne met totaal [...]
Tags: amsterdam · food · keuken van tante til · wining and dining
Red, White, and Bleu.
November 28th, 2007
Photo: jamon, borough market, by owenbooth The New Yorker, Red, White, and Bleu. What do we eat when we eat meat?: “Is it possible that meat is now openly enjoying a renaissance—that it’s finally cool to be a carnivore? If so, it has been a long time coming. Meat-eaters, having already ceded the moral ground [...]
Tags: food · meat · vegetarianism · wining and dining