SlowFood

I still chortle to myself when I think how I got in on the "ground floor" of Monique Dupre's sustainability-on-a-budget workshop series. I took her two-hour introductory session for only $25, in my friend's packed living room! Ahh, those were the days. Now her workshops, which cover strategies for...

I've been reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a book extolling the virtues of eating locally (and the horrors of eating feedlot meats and processed, packaged corn- and soy-based foods of all kinds). The book is an apologetic sermon; apologetic largely because eating locally is...