A fungal disease has been ravaging tomato and potato crops in 2009. “You go out to look at your tomato plants and two days later your plant’s dead, black crisp dead.”
Archive for August, 2009
Panera Bread’s cinnamon rolls
Large restaurant chains tend to rely on artificial ingredients to help preserve their product and create a universal taste. Panera Bread, which portrays itself as an upstanding bakery and purveyor of high-quality foods, is no different.
Recipe: Homemade Applesauce
Homemade applesauce is relatively super easy to make. As a bonus, it tastes 50 million times better than store-bought applesauce.
Is this lemonade?
Lemonade has a simple recipe—water, sugar, and lemon juice—but food processors have found a cheap way to make it very complex.
Becoming a locavore
Locavores are conosseiurs of regional cuisine—they try their hardest to dine on grub within an acceptable radius of their home.
Chipotle: Food with integrity
A recent e-mail exchange with Joe Stupp helped me see how Chipotle is changing America’s food supply, one burrito at a time.