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Hottest Trend in Dining: Gardens

Kevin Spak — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:26:30 CDT

Chefs have responded to the local food movement by going as local as it gets: their own gardens. In a survey of 2,000 chefs by the National Restaurant Association, a third identified gardening as the top restaurant trend of 2010, the AP reports. Growing produce, they’ve discovered, is often...

Locavores No Better Than Racists

Will McCahill — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:12:00 CST

Proud of yourself for going totally local for your Christmas dinner this year? Did you put on your white hood and go burn a cross afterward? Because the locavore movement is really just a thinly veiled cousin of tribalism and racism,” Ethan Epstein writes of the “profoundly misguided” eat-local cult....

Quietly, Moonshine Makes a Comeback

Jason Farago — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:51:44 CDT

Whether it's a result of the recession or an outgrowth of the local food movement, more and more Americans are getting in on the craze for do-it-yourself food and drink. But there's a small problem with homemade spirits—unlike smoking salmon or pickling cukes, distilling your own whiskey or grappa...

The New Gourmet Greens: Weeds

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:30:01 CDT

One man’s weeds are another man’s delicacy. The bane of American gardeners has a new home on gourmet dinner plates, the Wall Street Journal reports. “These are as good a yuppie green as you can get,” said one buyer who paid $9 a pound for dandelion greens, a very common...

Salty Ramsay Marinates in Hypocrisy

Will McCahill — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:58:51 CDT

Borrowing some of Gordon Ramsay's favorite vulgarities, Rob Lyons lashes out at the famous chef's push for British restaurants to use seasonal, local foodstuffs. "There have been plenty of people lining up to point out the hypocrisy of Ramsay’s position," Lyons writes in spiked, pointing to observations that his restaurants...

Markets May Lose Farmers

Sarah Seltzer — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:38:23 CDT

Farmers' markets have gotten so trendy the they're beginning to annoy their founders: the farmers. Now some of the locally-grown-produce movement's most high-profile members, turned off by the time commitment and the carnival-like atmosphere at many markets, are dropping out of the circuit.