Archive for the ‘Food Politics’ Category

the Big Picture

is never simple…
This TED talk by Ellen Gustafson on Obesity and Hunger is a great presentation.  She mixes humour in with a very bleak subject, and is passionate about what she believes in.  She has publicly stated her opinion, which I feel is of concern to the 80’s kids generation, of which I can relate.  [...]

I am hungry, hear me roar

Hello faithful reader
I apologize for my lack of May posts.  May has been a really hard month.  It’s been tough since spring break because I’ve been feeling really burnt out, and I hold it all in, because I don’t like being the debbie downer, holding bad news all the time about what not to eat [...]

Candy Me Sweet

this one’s for my B. :)
No one else I know has such a sweet tooth as he, other than myself as a teenager when I lived off of sugar, fat, and processed microwavable junk too. Ironically, he’s a dentist, and his ultimate indulgence is sugar.  MmmHmmm, just like my sinful doctor friends who smoke like [...]

Happy Earth Day!

This one’s going to be quick! Because I’m working on how to change the world! No just kidding, but I am working on doing what I can to lower my impact of my own garbage and huge carbon footprint while expanding my powerful and more useful thought bubbles instead.
This pretty much sums up what I’ve [...]

Let’s Start a Food Fight!!

Frankly, it’s been a dream of mind to start a massive food fight and see it through since I was a little kid! So good for them!! — “Parents Object to Food Fight Punishment: Boring Food”
Can you imagine!?
Sure it’s wasteful, but how much more food goes to waste everyday in the restaurant industry, and on [...]

“What do you want to eat?”

Is the Question of the Century.
We all make difficult decisions and sometimes unconscious decisions everyday about what to eat.  I know I wake up wondering about lunch and dinner, and when people ask me to pick a place to eat or to recommend them a good or fun restaurant, I know I [...]

Is Nutritious Food Good Food?

So summing up a discussion we had in class the other day,
I love that when our instructor asked “is nutritious food good food?” I’m pretty sure she silenced the crowd – birds chirped, and tumble weeds rolled right into the classroom.
I almost died laughing after that.  Have we all gotten so jaded that we over-think [...]

Let’s Play Tradesies

In the past two months, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around economics.  HaHa, yes.  Let’s take a moment here to giggle.  Those who know me might laugh at the fact that I’ve avoided taking any sort of economics class since high school, and that I make a goofy “math face” whenever I compute [...]

welcome to TVLand

A Good READ on Salon:
How Food Television is Changing America

Here’s the convo my dear friend has been keeping, on a very worthy note ;)

Simon Y: Is that a prof of yours? You know, I actually am surprised another TV network is starting up. I supposed it may not have occurred to me just how popular [...]

Snack Time! or Brunner?

NYT article of interest
Fo Serious. I felt like all I did yesterday was SNACK. Which in my mind is like a tease, a way of food shopping where I can never really find what I’m looking for unless I make it myself.
Munch munch munch.  I woke up feeling yucky :(  I really don’t like snacking, [...]