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Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2014
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Bad chicken illness leads to "good food" movie

How a Chicago couple came to make the new healthy-food documentary Food Patriots.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Jeff Spitz, Jennifer Spitz, Food Patriots, Michael Pollan, antibiotic-resistant infections, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2010
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Fresh

Members of Evanston's Talking Farm hold a Q&A after the Saturday screening of ana Sofia joanes's sustainable agriculture documentary "Fresh" at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Food & Drink, Environment, Eco, Fresh, ana Sofia joanes, documentary, agriculture, farming, sustainable, industrial, obesity, Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, Gene Siskel, Film Center, Talking Farm, Evanston, Skokie, Milwaukee, Virginia, Will Allen, Growing Power, Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms, Video

News & Politics, Feature Nov 26, 2009
The Charcuterie Underground

In the view of a burgeoning number of outlaw bacon curers and sausage grinders, some rules are made to be broken.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Feature, North Pond, Frontera Grill, E & P Meats, Big Green Egg, Helge Pedersen, Laurence Mate, This Little Piggy, charcuterie, bacon, pulled pork, Calabrian salami, nduja, Chicago Department of Public Health, Upton Sinclair, Tim Hadac, Michael Pollan, Susan Mahnke Peery, Charles G. Reavis, Home Sausage Making, Kendall College, petit sale, Meat Week, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points

Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending October 25

what's been hot in local bookstores
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, Help, Kathryn Stockett, Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger, Hardball, Sara Paretsky, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, Gail Collins, Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne, Chicago Best Sellers, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffe, Annie Barrows, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Sarah's Key, Tatiana De Rosnay, Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell, American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood, Howard Blum, Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan, Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking, Julia Child

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for week ending October 18
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, Hardball, Sara Paretsky, Help, Kathryn Stockett, Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, Chicago Humanities Festival, Children's Book, A.S. Byatt, True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy, Manood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon, Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne, Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat's Jewel Box, Madeleine Albright, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Say You're One of Them, Uwem Akpan, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Indignation, Philip Roth, Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell, This Is Not a Book, Keri Smith, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan, Freakonomics, Steve D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, My Life in France, Julia Child

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for the Week Ending September 20

List courtesy of Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins, as gathered from Anderson's Bookshop, the Book Cellar, the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, the Book Table, 57th Street Books, Lake Forest Books, Read Between the Lynes, and Women & Children First.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow, The Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, The White Queen, Philippa Gregory, The Help, Katherine Stockett, True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy, Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Bad Mother, Ayelet Waldman, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Dragon House, John Shors, My Life in France, Julia Child, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan, Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris, Chicago: A Biography, Dominic A. Pacyga

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for the Week Ending September 6
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Media, Lit & Lectures, News, Books, Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, South of Broad, Pat Conroy, The Women, T.C. Boyle, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Grand Illusion, Theresa Amato, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall, Cahokia, Timothy R. Pauketat, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Shack, William Paul Young, My Life in France, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan, Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, Cults Conspiracies and Secret Socieities, Arthur Goldwag, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2009
More food thought
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Food Chain, Film, Food & Drink, Environment, Eco, Fresh, Food Inc., ana Sofia joanes, Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma, Joel Salatin, Will Allen, agribusiness, sustainable food, documentary, EP Theater

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2009
This week's food and drink events

A book signing by Michael Pollan, a lambic beer festival, a kimchi feast, and more.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Hyde Park Art Center, Michael Pollan, Delilah'S, Chicago Foodways Roundtable, Metropolitan Brewing, Chris Pandel, Mindy Segal, Rob Levitt, Oriental Institute, The Haute Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia, John Manion, George Rasmussen, Urban Worm Girls, Harvest Moon Farms, Lambic Beer Festival, Kimchi Feast, City Provisions Farm Dinner, Dietzler Farms, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Allison Levitt, Swan Creek Farm

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2008
Waste not, guilt-trip not, destroy not, starve not

"If I can't eat my share, is a CSA still an environmentally sound choice?"
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Michael Pollan, Videnovich Farms, Community-supported agriculture, Green Lantern, food waste, Jonathan Bloom, CSA

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2008
A scientific approach to veganism

Attention meat eaters: U. of C. geophysicist Pamela Martin's study on the effects of diet on global warming.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, University Of Chicago, Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Pamela Martin, Gidon Eshel, In Defense of Food

Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2007
Pollan v. Mackey, round . . .

Got two hours? Michael Pollan and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey discuss the future of food at Berkeley.
- By Martha Bayne
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Michael Pollan, Whole Foods, John Mackey, The Omnivore's Dilemma

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2007
Pollan's process

The Neiman Foundation provides a look inside the mind of Michael Pollan.
- By Martha Bayne
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Michael Pollan, Nieman Foundation for Narrative Journalism

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2007
Food for thought

Michael Pollan on food and nutrition in the NY Times Mag.
- By Mike Lenehan
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Michael Pollan, New York Times Magazine, nutrition

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2006
The Dismal Science of Dinner

Harold Henderson looks at The Omnivore's Dilemma.
- By Martha Bayne
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Michael Pollan, Omnivore'S Dilemma, Harold Henderson, Omnivore'S Dillema

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2006
Sometimes petroleum makes for good eating

How do you decide if Chilean grapes are bad for environment?
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Economics, Environmentalism, Tyler Cowen, Michael Pollan, Omnivore'S Dilemma, Grapes, Petroleum, Frederick Kirschenmann

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How a Chicago couple came to make the new healthy-food documentary Food Patriots.

Members of Evanston's Talking Farm hold a Q&A after the Saturday screening of ana Sofia joanes's sustainable agriculture documentary "Fresh" at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

In the view of a burgeoning number of outlaw bacon curers and sausage grinders, some rules are made to be broken.

what's been hot in local bookstores

List courtesy of Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins, as gathered from Anderson's Bookshop, the Book Cellar, the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, the Book Table, 57th Street Books, Lake Forest Books, Read Between the Lynes, and Women & Children First.

A book signing by Michael Pollan, a lambic beer festival, a kimchi feast, and more.

"If I can't eat my share, is a CSA still an environmentally sound choice?"

Attention meat eaters: U. of C. geophysicist Pamela Martin's study on the effects of diet on global warming.

Got two hours? Michael Pollan and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey discuss the future of food at Berkeley.

The Neiman Foundation provides a look inside the mind of Michael Pollan.

Michael Pollan on food and nutrition in the NY Times Mag.

Harold Henderson looks at The Omnivore's Dilemma.

How do you decide if Chilean grapes are bad for environment?

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