Food. Celebrity chefs and food movement leaders tell Congress: ‘This farm bill stinks’ Wendell Berry, Dan Barber, Rick Bayless, and Mario Batali are among 70 food movement leaders who signed a letter asking Congress to invest in healthy food. Mario Batali, Dan Barber, Rick Bayless, and Alice Waters have had it with our food system. These well-known chefs — along with a group of 70 food movement celebrities, including Michael Pollan, Will Allen, Laurie David, Robert Kenner, and Wendell Berry — have set down their sauté pans for just long enough to sign onto a letter asking Congress to invest in healthy food. It’s a timely statement by this star-powered group, as the Senate Agriculture Committee’s draft of the 2012 Farm Bill — a package of federal farm and food legislation representing nearly a trillion dollars – finally hit the Senate floor this week. And they have a point. As we’ve reported in the past, the Senate draft probably won’t improve the big picture of the food landscape as-is.
Signed, sealed, delivered Indeed, these are important suggestions. Behind the Kitchen Door Book Trailer. What We're Reading: Monday, June 4. Food Haiku: The Spence | Atlanta Food & Drink Blog | Omnivore. Creative Loafing Atlanta Browse Food and Drink Browse Music Browse News Browse A and E Browse Movies and TV Browse Sex & Vice Browse Blogs Browse Promotions Browse Classifieds Browse Best of Atlanta Omnivore Archives | RSS « Introducing: the self-stirring pot | Japanese man serves own genitalia a… » More Sharing ServicesShare Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Restaurants Food Haiku: The Spence Posted by Brad Kaplan @BradKaplanATL on Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:51 AM The Spence Everyone knows how uncouth it is to review a place that just opened. I visit The SpenceOne week old, packed with peopleHaiku shows the light #1Chef is in the houseFans come for oysters and pearlsWill he look my way? #2Quail eggs ooze on topIs that hamachi tartare? #3Intrigue comes oftenSmoke and glass surrounding itOctopus and pig #4So much worth drinkingLeap of faith fizz calls to meVin santo seals deal Tags: the spence, richard blais Comments (3) Showing 1-3 of 3 Add a comment report 6 likes, 4 dislikes like dislike God, what a hater, Yan!!!
By Email With RSS. Japanese man serves own genitalia at dinner party | Atlanta Food & Drink Blog | Omnivore. Creative Loafing Atlanta Browse Food and Drink Browse Music Browse News Browse A and E Browse Movies and TV Browse Sex & Vice Browse Blogs Browse Promotions Browse Classifieds Browse Best of Atlanta Omnivore Archives | RSS « Food Haiku: The Spence | Bargain-basement goat at Kroger » More Sharing ServicesShare Tuesday, June 5, 2012 News / Inedibles Japanese man serves own genitalia at dinner party UPDATE Posted by Andrea Duke on Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM A 22-year-old Japanese man, Mao Sugiyama, served five guests a special treat at a Tokyo dinner party - his genitals.
One guest tweeted before the event, "It's a once in a lifetime chance, so I decided on the spur of the moment to do it.' The dish was prepared by Mao who was supervised by a chef. Mao wrote on Twitter: "The organs were surgically removed at age 22. Guests admitted the hormone-free genitalia were very rubbery and had little taste. UPDATE: Calorielab.com has photos. Tags: Cooked genitals, Japan, Tokyo, Mao Sugiyama Comments (11) Add a comment um. USDA plans to let chicken plants run faster with fewer inspectors. WASHINGTON — As part of President Obama's push to streamline regulations on businesses, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture plans to let chicken slaughterhouses run production lines faster and with fewer federal inspectors, angering food safety advocates and poultry plant workers. Under the proposal, production lines would be allowed to move 25% faster, while the government would cut by as much as 75% the number of line inspectors eyeing chicken bodies for defects before they are packaged for consumption. For The Record Los Angeles Times Saturday, June 09, 2012 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 3 inches; 106 words Type of Material: Correction Poultry inspections: An article in the June 6 Business section about new rules for inspecting poultry said that the U.S. The quicker conveyor belts also raise the pros- pects that plant workers who hang carcasses, clean, trim and cut chickens at rapid speeds will be prone to more injuries as the pace is ratcheted up, labor groups said. We Only Think We Know the Truth About Salt.
Restaurant Openings and Closing for the Week of June 6. Is it Fair for Chefs to Cook Other Cultures’ Foods? Meet the Eater Young Guns Final 50 - #EYG12. EXCLUSIVE - Disney to stop some junk-food ads on kids' TV, websites: sources. By Lisa Richwine and Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES Tue Jun 5, 2012 8:00am IST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), owner of the ABC broadcast network and a suite of cable channels, will stop accepting some junk-food ads on TV programs, radio shows and websites aimed at children, according to sources with knowledge of the plan. Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger and first lady Michelle Obama plan to make an announcement on Tuesday in Washington, the sources said.
The United States faces an obesity epidemic. Nearly one-third of U.S. children are overweight or obese, and a 2006 Institute of Medicine report said junk food marketing contributed to childhood obesity. The Disney move follows New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last week of a plan to ban sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (about half a liter) in most restaurants, theaters, delis and vending carts throughout the city. A Disney spokeswoman declined to comment on Tuesday's announcement.