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Letter From a Lunch Lady
Photo by: Katherine Raz AKA back_garage
In last week’s newsletter (click here to sign up, if you haven’t already) I wrote about school lunch programs, and how they cut costs by serving pre-made food in boxes rather than cooking. I got this letter in response.
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I am a lunch lady at my local public school. What you [...]
Nutritionism for Dummies
Photo by: Camille
Do you like being called stupid? I don’t. So an ad campaign that depends on convincing me that eating healthy is too “confusing” and that I need it simplified is … well, “not very effective” is probably a too-polite way to say it.
Review: Food, Inc.
Documentary filmmakers have lots of options in how to approach a subject.
You can turn yourself into an example of the subject and capture your own reaction, like Morgan Spurlock in Super Size Me.
You can interview lots of different people and show the story in their words, like Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis in King Corn.
You [...]
Fresh: The Movie
Last week I saw a screening of a Fresh, new documentary by Ana Sofia Joanes. If you follow Michael Pollan the way I do, you already know most of the issues covered, but it’s nice to hear about it from the people actually involved.
The subject is the way food is produced in the U.S., from [...]
Free Range Chicken: Promise or Inside Joke?