Folklife Festival and Food

So, after the weekly trip to the Farmer’s Market, I came back and scanned the New York Times online edition and found an article on the ongoing Smithsonian Folklife Festival. And suddenly, I am regretting that I no longer live close to Washington. This year, for the first time in its 39-year history, the Folklife […]

The Empire Strikes Back

I find it to be so interesting that local control and individual freedom are upheld as patriotic, core American values by talking heads in our country until issues like gay marriage, the USA PATIOT act and local control of the food supply come into focus. Then, suddenly, we have Constitutional amendments, pleas to keep the […]

Breast is Best

Okay, I just read something that got me het up enough to get political in my food blog again. It is about the conflicting messages that nursing mothers are given when it comes to feeding their babies. I got up this morning early to send a fax to my mother, and so, while the fax […]

Knives are Dangerous

This morning, I got up early, not because I intended to, but because I have been getting up early for the past four mornings. I have been impersonating a morning-person so that I could let the contractors into the house in order that they could finally finish their work; now my brain is trained to […]

Dissing the Dim Sum

So, two days ago, I wrote about food and politics in the US. Today, I will write a bit about food and politics in China. Currently in China, there are to big fracases going on that have the populace irritable. One is Japan’s ascention to the UN Security Council, which, because of Japan’s official minimization […]

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