An article in today’s Jacksonville Business Journal reports on the growing popularity of farmers markets. Many residents of Jacksonville, Florida, like people elsewhere, are showing greater interest in locally grown food and in reducing their driving.
As they flock to the area’s farmers markets in search of fresh local produce, however, a new problem is [...]

Today’s New York Times examines the continuing draw of food festivals in California, where many of the favorite local foods being celebrated are increasingly threatened. Patterson, longtime home of an apricot festival and self-proclaimed “apricot capital of the world,” is growing fewer apricots these days due to low-cost imports of dried apricots from Turkey. Gilroy, [...]

Earlier this week, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas told what he called a “blogger inside baseball” story. While the story may be inside baseball, a passing remark in that story hints at an aspect of community that is sometimes overlooked.
If you believe that a community should serve a specific purpose, then you might think that [...]

In his extraordinary book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan observes that the detachment of Americans from culinary traditions has contributed to a “national eating disorder”: for many, choosing among foods is a stressful ordeal that seems fraught with risks. While America’s diversity contributes to the lack of a cohesive culinary heritage, Pollan writes that marketers [...]