Blog posts in Issues

Church Acreage Once Provided People Actual Food

Posted April 25, 2013

Trinity Church, in lower Manhattan, first established in 1697, now calls its 1846 building home. According to a story in the NYTimes, "The Episcopal parish, known as Trinity Wall Street, traces its holdings to a gift of 215 acres of prime Manhattan farmland donated in 1705 by Queen Anne of England. …

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Pressure Cooker Terror

Posted April 17, 2013

My parents used an archaic version of the pressure cooker back in the day, primarily to cook spuds for mashed potatoes. As kids, we were wary of the thing--steam shooting from the hole in the top, making a wild whistle, an adult wrestling the beast open with difficulty.

But mashies were the payof…

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Pizza Soothes Travelers on the Tarmac

Posted March 24, 2013

After three hours on the runway, Delta had Pizza Hut deliver pizzas to its less-than-delighted Knoxville passengers....More here.

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And Hold the Gluten!

Posted March 11, 2013

Even Americans who do NOT suffer from celiac issues are saying no to gluten, or at least trying it out.

According to an NPR report report, "Right now 29 percent of the adult population says, 'I'd like to cut back or avoid gluten completely.' "

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Know Your Fish

Posted February 21, 2013

These fish clearly are trout, courtesy The Fish Times

"...As much as one-third of seafood sold in restaurants and groceries is fraudulently labeled, according to a report the advocacy group Oceana released Thursday. The group sampled 674 retail outlets in the District and 20 states between 2010 a…

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Mayor Bloomberg, Food Issue Hero

Posted February 19, 2013

His honor will not only seek to ban styrofoam food containers in the city of New York, but will also take steps to limit food waste across the five boroughs.

"...we'll also tackle New York City's final recycling frontier:food waste. We bury 1.2 million tons of food waste in landfills every year a…

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Food for 8 Billion: Year-Long Marketplace Report

Posted January 24, 2012

Too many people, continuing imports of rice to meet growing need, lack of family planning gear available to the poor, heavy influence of the Church, a search for solutions in the Philippines. View/listen to part of the series here.

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