Food in Your Face on the road/sea in Victoria!
Mike Jess and I shop for dinner at the fish market off the main warf.
Our 'catch' for dinner
One of the inhabitants on the warf where we 'fished' for dinner. She looks well fed.
Some boats at the warf.
4.24.2007
Food in Your Face cooks dinner in Victoria
Food in Your Face on the road/sea in Victoria!
Mike Jess and I shop for dinner at the fish market off the main warf.
Our 'catch' for dinner
One of the inhabitants on the warf where we 'fished' for dinner. She looks well fed.
Some boats at the warf.
4.17.2007
Spring's Springing!
Today on the show a look at the Guelph Farmer's Market's new website, highlights from the Ontario Farmland Trust Conference, fun food news, and some spring cleaning tips.
One cleaning tip is to go through your kitchen and make a list of un-used/un-needed kitchen tools and appliances. Send those lists to the GFS X-Change program and maybe those unwanted items will find a good home.
Next week I hope to have Elbert Van Donkersgoed on the show. He is the executive director of the GTA Agriculture Action Committee. He's an inspiring speaker with some amazing ideas about local food.
3.19.2007
100 Mile Diet Interview
Just thought I'd pass on the excitement. . .the ground is being laid for an interview with this dynamic duo from Vancouver and their adventures in. . .not eating sugar, olive oil and beer. Keep checking in here to see when this will air.
Here are some other details about the book that launches across Canada on April 3rd.
The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.
When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that produced what they ate. For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born.
The couple’s discoveries sometimes shook their resolve. It would be a year without sugar, Cheerios, olive oil, rice, Pizza Pops, beer, and much, much more. Yet local eating has turned out to be a life lesson in pleasures that are always close at hand. They met the revolutionary farmers and modern-day hunter-gatherers who are changing the way we think about food. They got personal with issues ranging from global economics to biodiversity. They called on the wisdom of grandmothers, and immersed themselves in the seasons. They discovered a host of new flavours, from gooseberry wine to sunchokes to turnip sandwiches, foods that they never would have guessed were on their doorstep.
The 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted, attracting media and grassroots interest that spanned the globe. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating tells the full story, from the insights to the kitchen disasters, as the authors transform from megamart shoppers to self-sufficient urban pioneers. The 100-Mile Diet is a pathway home for anybody, anywhere.
Call me naive, but I never knew that flour would be struck from our 100-Mile Diet. Wheat products are just so ubiquitous, “the staff of life,” that I had hazily imagined the stuff must be grown everywhere. But of course: I had never seen a field of wheat anywhere close to Vancouver, and my mental images of late-afternoon light falling on golden fields of grain were all from my childhood on the Canadian prairies. What I was able to find was Anita’s Organic Grain & Flour Mill, about 60 miles up the Fraser River valley. I called, and learned that Anita’s nearest grain suppliers were at least 800 miles away by road. She sounded sorry for me. Would it be a year until I tasted a pie?
—From The 100-Mile Diet
Here are some other details about the book that launches across Canada on April 3rd.
The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that produced what they ate. For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born.
The couple’s discoveries sometimes shook their resolve. It would be a year without sugar, Cheerios, olive oil, rice, Pizza Pops, beer, and much, much more. Yet local eating has turned out to be a life lesson in pleasures that are always close at hand. They met the revolutionary farmers and modern-day hunter-gatherers who are changing the way we think about food. They got personal with issues ranging from global economics to biodiversity. They called on the wisdom of grandmothers, and immersed themselves in the seasons. They discovered a host of new flavours, from gooseberry wine to sunchokes to turnip sandwiches, foods that they never would have guessed were on their doorstep.
The 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted, attracting media and grassroots interest that spanned the globe. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating tells the full story, from the insights to the kitchen disasters, as the authors transform from megamart shoppers to self-sufficient urban pioneers. The 100-Mile Diet is a pathway home for anybody, anywhere.
Call me naive, but I never knew that flour would be struck from our 100-Mile Diet. Wheat products are just so ubiquitous, “the staff of life,” that I had hazily imagined the stuff must be grown everywhere. But of course: I had never seen a field of wheat anywhere close to Vancouver, and my mental images of late-afternoon light falling on golden fields of grain were all from my childhood on the Canadian prairies. What I was able to find was Anita’s Organic Grain & Flour Mill, about 60 miles up the Fraser River valley. I called, and learned that Anita’s nearest grain suppliers were at least 800 miles away by road. She sounded sorry for me. Would it be a year until I tasted a pie?
—From The 100-Mile Diet
2.20.2007
2.13.2007
Oh, Amabel, you make my heart throbe. . .
Its our aquifer, and its a topic needing constant attention as its finite and only partially recharged. What are the basic facts about our watersource and what sort of pull do we as consumers all have on it. From conservation, to cryptosporidium, to the work of a sneaky trans-national corporation to draw some BIG water in this town, that's where the show's headed.
Hope you can join me!
1.15.2007
The pull, its strong!
9 months! That's how long its been since I've been on the air.
Women give birth in that time, students complete a year's worth of school in that time, Monsanto can prosecute hundreds of farmers for illegally growing "their" seed in that time. Tomorrow at 12 noon I will birth a bastion of hot air, deliver a lecture's worth of blabber, and hypothetically flip the finger at grossly enlarged, hothead corporations that hope to own the food we all eat - Food in your Face is going back on the air and I'm pleased as Johnny Apple, Pea Shoot, Honey-spiked punch about it.
Women give birth in that time, students complete a year's worth of school in that time, Monsanto can prosecute hundreds of farmers for illegally growing "their" seed in that time. Tomorrow at 12 noon I will birth a bastion of hot air, deliver a lecture's worth of blabber, and hypothetically flip the finger at grossly enlarged, hothead corporations that hope to own the food we all eat - Food in your Face is going back on the air and I'm pleased as Johnny Apple, Pea Shoot, Honey-spiked punch about it. People, get ready!
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
Paul Cezanne
food in your face radio, tuesdays, 12 noon. after democracy now.
"join me for lunch, stay for dinner!"
"start your pm with the P.M. of Parma-ment, the Prime Minister of Canoli, the M.P. of internal food culture!"
12.19.2006
1864
nificantly reduced and their growth slowed by heating wine to 55C for only a few minutes. This discovery will lead to a range of new developments including large-scale wine making, beer brewing, and pasteurizing. Pasteur's germ theory will also be instrumental in understanding the development of diseases such as rabies, cholera, and anthrax, and will lead directly to the development of the first vaccines.Feeding the Future, Anansi Press. 2004
This is my weighing in on the pasteurizing of milk debate that farmer Michael Schmidt is embroiled within. He is now ending his 30 some day hunger strike so that he can be healthy for the legal f
ight ahead.Aside from the elitist take on why this debate is important, for example the high end chefs in Toronto fighting for their right to have unpasteurized milk because it tastes better, I think this debate works more importantly to respond to some of the huge concerns I, and many others, have around the massive disconnect between food and the consumer. We have a relationship here between a farmer and a consumer and that is what should be fought for in my opinion. If we are weighing in on this debate solely as consumers who are looking for the best product and one's right to access it, I think the real point will be lost. If as a consumer one enters into an arrangement about food and how it is produced, then that is what should be respected and fought for.
I wish farmer Schmidt luck, but worry that he is going to get severely punished for choosing to take on the federal law in the way that he has. We need to support our farmers, they feed our cities. I just hope that this farmer, knowingly disobeying federal law, doesn't make it harder for future farmers (and consumers) to fight for the integrity of alternative practices that challenge large agribusiness models.
more on Schmidt case
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