LIFE DEALT Lynette and Kristen Cederquist some lemons, but instead of making lemonade, the mother-and-daughter duo made Meyer lemon marmalade as well as a whole line of jams and jellies. More
THE SEPT. 21 issue of The Nation is all about food. It’s a good read with several thoughtful essays, but the piece that really stood out for me was Brent Cunningham’s book review. Cunningham, editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, reviewed two books: Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, and Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda. More
FOR Santa Cruz Mountain winegrowers, the Lockheed fire that burned more than 7,000 acres of wild lands above Bonny Doon recently came at exactly the wrong time. More
I HAVE RAILED against the federal school-lunch program before, so I won’t cover the same ground again except to say that the food we serve our kids in a disgrace. Given the sky-rocketing rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children, you’d think the Tater Tots, high-fat processed foods and various cruel gruels would have been 86’d from lunchroom menus long ago. More
Sometimes a business’s local connections aren’t always easy to see. Like when they show up before everyone’s awake to deliver produce. “We have local farmers that come in their own trucks and deliver to the store,” says Sal Arciniega, marketing team leader for Whole Foods Campbell. More