Read all about my anti-foodie manifesto on Gadling: Dropping the F-bomb: why “foodie” needs to go away.
Archive for October, 2011
Can’t we all just be “food lovers?”
Posted in Cheese, Cooking, Drink, Food, Humane livestock management, Seasonal eating, Street food, Sustainable agriculture, The Sustainable Kitchen ®, Travel, tagged food lovers, food snobs, foodie, foodies, foodistas, gourmets, locavores on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A horse is a horse…
Posted in Cooking, Food, Fuzzy (and not so) critters, Humane livestock management, Meaty treats, Misc., Sustainable agriculture, The Sustainable Kitchen ®, Travel, Western U.S. lifestyle, tagged abbatoirs, dog meat, horse abbatoirs, horse adoption, horse meat, horse rescue, horse sanctuaries, horse slaughter, horse slaughterhouses, horses, humane animal slaughter, humane livestock management, mobile abbatoirs, mustang rescue, mustangs, slaughterhouses, wild burros, wild horses on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My mom and I were reminiscing the other day when I mentioned Cocoa, a Shetland pony we briefly had when I was four. “You remember Cocoa?” she asked. “Sure. We sold her to the Olafssen’s.” This was my best friend Ingrid’s family down the street. Her dad Leif was a jolly, strapping fellow and Swedish immigrant; they had about a million kids. Mom: Yes, well, we [...]
