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Texas takes on new USDA school food standards. Sigh. 27 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
Thanks to Bettina Siegel of The Lunch Tray for alerting me to Texas’s latest declaration of independence from Washington, DC. The governor signed a bill this summer that was supposed to allow Texas h...
FDA study: Do added nutrients sell products? (Of course they do) 26 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
The FDA has announced that it will be studying the effects of nutrient-content claims on consumers attitudes about food products. FDA does not encourage the addition of nutrients to certain food prod...
Annals of food and culture: The potato museum, Munich 23 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
Thanks to reader Doire for alerting me to Munich’s Kartoffelmuseum. The tiny museum is based on the private, obsessive collection of Otto Eckart, the CEO of the Pfanni company. I was not familiar wi...
Soda advertising: Bavaria 22 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
In the Munich subway, Marienplatz station, Coca-Cola ads feature bottles with common German (?) names on the labels, in this case Kevin, Tobias, and Sandra. At the entrance to the tour of the salt mi...
More Bavarian food politics 22 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
The central farmers’ market in Munich, the Viktualienmarkt, has some organic (“bio”) producers. This one displays a sign that it has been organic for 20 years (20 Jahre Bio).
Food Politics: Munich style 20 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
I am in Munich this week to give a talk at a meeting of environmental historians and will be posting tourist photos. Here’s today’s from the main tourist area in front of city hall: My (rather loose...
Books about food industry work: first-hand 19 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Seth Holmes. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. . University of California Press, 2013. This book came highly recommended and for good reason. It is a riveting a...
What’s that cartoon? 16 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
Oops. Amazon left off the last question in Kerry Trueman’s interview. KT: And what a bonus to get to the end of the book and find that wonderful cartoon of yourself by Clay Bennett! How did that com...
Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics: Q and A 15 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
Amazon.com has just posted an interview that I did with Kerry Trueman about my forthcoming (September 3!) book, Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics. Kerry Trueman, an environmenta...
General Mills wants the FDA to define “whole grain” 14 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
Ah the ironies of food marketing. General Mills is asking the FDA to come up with a decent (translation: favorable to General Mills) definition of “whole grain.” You might think that the meaning of ...
