Know Your Foodie: Locavores vs. Fetishists
A mini-guide to the emerging debate on the meaning of being a foodie
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With the help of my Atlantic Wire colleagues, I have compiled 12 contenders for the best summer food, along with the reasons we would consume these items all year round if we had our druthers. Who is the top of the summer food pile? Help us choose.
A mini-guide to the emerging debate on the meaning of being a foodie
The Minimalist becomes a pundit, taking on food regulations
They're getting good at producing strips--but should we be excited about this?
The USDA's not-so-new dietary advice
A comment on the meat situation
Critics are already hurling insults over the food industry's new labeling idea
Starbucks turns coffee drinking into a stress test
Is it big government gone awry or just a public health initiative?
Why doesn't the U.S. have a British-style pub scene?
Diet program tweaked to encourage more apples, fewer Oreos
The FDA gets recall power, small farmers and foodies get a pass, and baby bottles stay possibly poisoned
Humorist Fran Lebowitz is baffled
Smirks and candlelight vigils as the FDA brings the hammer down
Felix Ortiz did it for the kids
To the relief of concerned citizens, now it's just another candy-flavored booze in a can
A USDA study finds that hunger is rising in the U.S.
Will it work?
Explains her novel use of minibottles of alcohol to Stephen Colbert
And brings treats to elementary school to teach kids about "laissez-faire" government.
Man loses 27 lbs on eating only junk; Rush Limbaugh gloats, "I told you so"
San Francisco bans the "happy" part of the equation
The mystery meat sandwich returns nationwide Tuesday
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