NewsRack: 'Local Food Systems' news in 'Food-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Family-run Denver butcher shop celebrates 90 years in business	25.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
On Memorial Day weekend in 1923, many Americans motored off in their Ford Model Ts to picnics and barbecues, but Edward Oliver was hard at work — he had just opened Oliver's Meat Market at East Sixth Avenue and Pearl Street and set the foundation for a retail legacy defined by quality and friendly customer service.
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The Great Charcoal Debate: Briquettes Vs. Lumps?	25.5.2013	NPR News
Does the kind of charcoal you use really make a difference when it comes time to grilling up a tasty steak or other meat on the grill? Yes — but it depends on what you're after. Both briquettes and lump charcoal — a.ka. "natural" hardwood charcoal — have their advantages and disadvantages.
We Can Grow: building urban gardens, helping gardeners thrive	24.5.2013	MinnPost
Photo by Bill Kelley Mike Smieja created We Can Grow. When Mike Smieja sold his marketing firm in 2006 and decided to attend business school, he had one solid goal: start a new company that would make millions of dollars. But a zucchini and a jar of blueberry jam changed everything. While attending school, Smieja kept a small home garden, and occasionally helped his father do a little farming in Grand Marais. During a bumper crop of zucchini, he gave an older woman in his neighborhood one of the nicest ones. Around the same time, he spoke to another elderly neighbor, who mentioned a love of blueberry jam. Smieja brought him some after a blueberry picking session at his father's, and during the delivery, the other neighbor came over with zucchini bread. "They started talking to each other, and it turns out they lived on the same block for 10 years, and had never even met," recalls Smieja. "That moment changed my direction. I began to see the connection between community and food, and I ...
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Homeowners Take the Foreclosure Fight to the DOJ	24.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Greg Kaufmann Protesters mobilize at Freedom Plaza. (Credit: Greg Kaufmann)Gisele Mata of Whittier, California, never considered herself a political activist. Other than making some calls on behalf of President Obama during the 2012 campaign, her focus was on her work, family, church and volunteering as a Girl Scout troop leader. read more
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Oprah Winfrey's Latest Venture Is Farming In Hawaii	24.5.2013	NPR News
After Oprah Winfrey's friend and health adviser learned that 90 percent of the food on Maui is flown or shipped in from outside, he convinced her to turn a portion of her estate on the island into a farm. Winfrey is giving away the food she's now growing on 16 acres of land, but it may soon be for sale.
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Cindy Gershen's dreams to educate others about healthy eating are coming true	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
What started as a 'what if' conversation around Gershen's kitchen table has grown into a health and wellness movement in Central Contra Costa County, which Cindy Gershen and her community partners hope will blossom into a nationwide advocacy campaign to change the way Americans eat. After founding the Wellness City Challenge in Walnut Creek, Gershen turned her attention to schools, where she teaches teens how to eat right and helps them develop skills that boost their pride.
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Summer festivals 2013: Your guide to Bay Area fairs and outdoor fun	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Peninsula
From Art + Soul to Walnut Creek Art & Wine to San Mateo County Fair, summer fun abounds.
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Scraps and the City	23.5.2013	Greenlight \| OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC
By Elizabeth Royte Sometimes I bike and sometimes I walk, but either way I’m a tree-hugging, 350.org-supporting, vegetarian Brooklyn cliché -- hauling a week’s worth of kale stems, shallot skins, and daikon peels to my local greenmarket for compost collection . I feel sheepish about fulfilling a stereotype, but at least I’m joined on my weekly march by tens of thousands of others around New York City who share my feelings about the earth: we know that these scraps converted to compost will nurture the soil that grows our food and other plants. (The wonkier among us understand that compost also increases soil’s carbon-storage capacity, helps to retain soil moisture, reduces the use of artificial fertilizers, and improves soil structure and texture.) And so we don’t mind terribly that our bags of waste take up valuable space in our freezers (the best place to store them until market day), or resent hiking this stuff a half mile, or more, to a collection site no matter what the weather ...
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Jonathan Gold's best 101 restaurants in L.A.	23.5.2013	L.A. Times - Food & Dining
Queue up at a taco truck. Sip cocktails where Charlie Chaplin and George Clooney quenched their thirst. It's all part of why we love L.A. Queue up at a taco truck. Sip cocktails where Charlie Chaplin and George Clooney quenched their thirst. It's all part of why we love L.A.
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Hormel Foods 2Q Profit Falls, Misses Expectations	23.5.2013	WCCO: Local News
Hormel Foods' fiscal second-quarter net income fell 2 percent as it dealt with one-time costs related to its acquisition of the Skippy peanut butter brand, higher grain costs and weaker turkey prices. Its quarterly performance missed Wall Street's expectations.
Ore. officer arrested at Wash. home in assault	23.5.2013	Seattle Times: Local
A suburban Portland police officer already accused of food stamp fraud has been arrested by SWAT officers at his Vancouver, Wash., home in connection with the sexual assault of a 5-year-old child.
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Ore. officer arrested at Wash. home in assault	23.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
A suburban Portland police officer already accused of food stamp fraud has been arrested by SWAT officers at his Vancouver, Wash., home in connection with the sexual assault of a 5-year-old child.
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‘A hot meal can make people cry’: BBQ volunteers comfort Oklahoma victims	23.5.2013	MSNBC
‘A hot meal can make people cry’: BBQ volunteers comfort Oklahoma victims
Mexico cartel dominates, torches western state	23.5.2013	World
LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. ...
Risky jobs and domestic violence - new report reveals ‘hidden’ social costs of today’s high food prices	22.5.2013	Press releases
A new era of high and volatile food prices is causing life-changing shifts in society, according to Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in a joint report published today. A new era of high and volatile food prices is causing life-changing shifts in society, according to Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in a joint report published today.&n "The implications of high and volatile food prices go way beyond the dinner table and are driving social change that must be better understood and addressed if communities are going to survive intact.” Richard King Oxfam’s researcher Notes to Editors 'Squeezed' is the first research report of a four-year research study: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility. The research involves tracking food security indicators around the world, yearly return visits to 23 urban and rural communities, and analysis of national survey data, to give a bigger picture of how people ...
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A River Runs Through It	22.5.2013	American Prospect
Dennis Chamberlin T o get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the Gulf of Mexico. If the air is still and hot, an event may occur that Gulf Coast residents call a “jubilee.” The bottom-dwelling flounder will be among its first victims, growing agitated as each successive gulp of water brings less and less oxygen across their gills. In a panic, the fish will head shoreward toward the only breathable water they can find—the tiny oxygenated riffle the sea makes as it bumps lazily against the beach. At the shoreline, they will find humans waiting for them armed with “gigs,” crude sticks with nails protruding. With an easy stab, each gigger will impale a suffocating fish, sometimes two at a time. Wading out farther, the fishermen will find sluggish pods of blue crab and brown shrimp. As the ...
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Dairy Economist To Speak At South Dakota State	22.5.2013	WCCO: National
A University of Minnesota dairy economist will speak at South Dakota University on Wednesday about current federal dairy legislation. Marin Bozic will talk at the Alfred Dairy Science Hall from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The session is sponsored by the South Dakota Dairy Producers.
House, Senate Consider Cuts In Food Stamp Program	22.5.2013	NPR: Morning Edition
Both the House and Senate are considering farm bills that would cut spending on food stamps, one of the most expensive government programs. But people disagree on how much the changes would affect recipients.
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Frugal Traveler Blog: Going Vegetarian in Tapas-Happy Barcelona	22.5.2013	NY Times: Most Emailed
It takes some digging, but beyond Iberian pork and octopus croquettes lies a vegetarian-friendly version of the Barcelona tapas crawl.
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Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips	22.5.2013	Seattle Times: Local
California-based chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy - known allergens - which are not listed on the labels of its packages, federal agriculture officials said.
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