Posts Under ‘food’ Category

The Food Babe Takes on Her Critics

The Vani Hari success story is remarkable. Here’s a synopsis from a recently syndicated article published in the Chicago Tribune: Less than four years ago, Hari didn’t even have a Twitter or Facebook account. She was afraid of social media, worried a slip of the thumb could jeopardize her consulting contracts implementing technology and strategy at Bank…Continue Reading…

How to Kick Your Oreo Addiction

As I was plowing through my secret stash of Oreos today, I remembered this news from earlier in the month: Connecticut College students and a professor of psychology have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. And just like most humans, rats go for the middle…Continue Reading…

Is There Room at the Table For an Organic Food Eating Skeptic?

Being a city boy (for all my adult life), my exposure to agriculture is woefully limited. I’ve parachuted onto actual farms in the Midwest during reporting trips for stories and every year around Halloween my wife and I take our kids to a farm in the outskirts to pick pumpkins, get lost in a corn…Continue Reading…

The Killer Diet

It’s hell on the planet, sadistic to our fellow creatures, and bad for your health. Nothing in this WaPost essay is new, but the main point is worth pondering: What I eat influences you. What you eat influences me. Our diets are deeply, intimately and necessarily political.