Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Urban Farming in Oakland’s “Ghost Town”

November 4th, 2009 by Fredo Martin | No Comments | Filed in Agriculture, Economy, Food, Food System, ProFood

My Friend Liz (@hyperlocavore), posted this very cool video on facebook earlier today. Well worth the time, it is also entertaining and, most likely, eye opening for many city dwellers. Enjoy! More details at http://cookingupastory.com/novella-carpenter-e-interviewContinue reading

A shared new direction

August 12th, 2009 by Fredo Martin | No Comments | Filed in Agriculture, Economy, Food, Food System, ProFood

This is in response to a recently published article “Who Owns Good Food” by Zachary Adam Cohen on the Huffington Post. Being too lengthy, this comment exceeded the 250 word limitation of the blog, hence this post.

Nothing can be accomplished in the effort to reshape our food system from a broken, misdirected trajectory to a sustainable triple bottom line system, without shedding old… Continue reading

Ephron’s signature dish: Julie and Julia

August 10th, 2009 by Fredo Martin | No Comments | Filed in Cooking, Food, Movie Review, ProFood, op-ed

Movie Review by Flo Martin

The title says it all: the couple in the film is composed of Julie, a New Yorker who turns thirty, and lives with her husband Eric in Queens over a pizzeria, and Julia, sixty years her senior, who experienced post World War II Paris and its delights (however, we never see the grunginess of the Paris of the time that is so vivid in… Continue reading