See more of Rob’s food photography work in his exhibit here on The Rambling Epicure and on his site Real Food Photography.
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From GOOD: Procter & Gamble’s Aim is to Send Zero Manufacturing Waste to Landfills
Good Things in P&G Corporate Efforts towards Sustainability
GOOD reports that the corporate giant Procter & Gamble’s aim is to send zero manufacturing waste to landfills. Already in 2007, Procter & Gamble launched a team in charge of turning manufacturing waste into worth.
Click here to read the GOOD article.
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Slow Food needs Slow Money to Grow, says Woody Tasch
A New York Times article by Kathryn Shattuck says a key ingredient in keeping the Slow Food movement going is investment capital.
An attempt at this is just what is happening in the Boulder Theater this week, where some 650 business people and potential investors are meeting to exchange views. “As venture capitalists increasingly bet on food start-ups, Slow Money, a nonprofit that catalyzes the flow of capital to small and local food enterprises, supports what Mr. Tasch called the heroic grunts: the food producers and their fiduciary counterparts, or “food-ish-iaries,” committed to healing and investing in a broken system, either through manpower or money.”
Click here to read rest of this article.
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Food Art: Food Solos, a food photography exhibition by Nitin Kapoor
Nitin Kapoor‘s is a chef turned food photographer. We are happy to introduce you to his photography here in this exhibition, “Food Solos.”
Click on each individual photo to enlarge it and read the description.
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Simple Sustenance: For Breakfast or Dessert — Yogurt with Sweet Spices and Rose Petals
by Renu Chhabra
Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become greater than the sum of their ingredients. — Anthony Beal
Sweet spices like cardamom and fennel, rose petals and rose water, pistachios and golden raisins
I am loving it already.
Flavors and scents I can taste and sense just by the mention of their names! They are very close to my heart. I grew up around them, or I can say I was often surrounded by them.
Cardamom and fennel used in sweet and savory dishes perfumed our kitchen with their intoxicating aroma. Rice pudding, pilaf, spiced tea, rich sauces, and several sweets are just a few to name. Rose petals and rose water to greet guests on special occasions, or simply to flavor sweets and drinks, made every experience memorable. Nuts and dried fruits in creamy sauces or in decadent desserts stamped food tastes forever in my mind.
Do I need say that I cherish these scents and flavors? We all have experiences from childhood, interwoven with lots of love and memories close to our hearts.
1 cup plain yogurt (Greek or regular)
1 green cardamom
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What we’re reading at The Rambling Epicure
Broccoli Spray, by Ilian Iliev ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (C)
Click here to catch up on your food-related reading for this week:
- food art exhibit in Valencia, Spain
- 3 books more filling than food
- is French cuisine a victim of its own success?
- Monsanto doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating
- can eating healthy actually save you money
and much more.
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America is the only country to provide food aid in the form of food, says The New York Times
by Jonell Galloway
Common sense might well tell you that it is more likely that the food really gets to the country in need of aid if you send it in the form of food and not dollars. According to more than 30 studies, the custom of “shipping food overseas in American-flagged vessels is inefficient, costly” and even harmful to the very communities the U.S. is trying to help. This information is supported by experts, who say this manner of distribution drives down the price of local produce by as much as fifty percent. The U.S. is the only country to give food aid in this manner, and Obama is proposing change that could matter.
Click here to read The New York Times editorial.
Official photographic portrait of U.S. President Barack
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New on The Rambling Epicure: List Your Real Food or Photo Blog
by Jonell Galloway
We’ve just created a widget in the right-hand sidebar that allows all real food sites, blogs and readers to enter their URL on our list of visitors, whether it be a recipe, photo, news, farming, or other real-food related site. All you need to do is enter your RSS feed URL. Sign up soon so we can form a community of like-minded people!
From artsy
Photo courtesy of Ilian
to philosophical and literary
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Photo credit: elycefeliz)
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Kentuckian Bill Sanders’ Extra Virgin Olive Oil Named “One of the Best Olive Oils in the World”
by Jonell Galloway
Native Kentuckian from Maysville, Bill Sanders has spent a lifetime training his taste buds and nose. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Sanders went on to study law at Salmon P. Chase College of Law in Cincinnati, Ohio, embellishing his résumé with other studies of quite a different nature: sensory evaluation of olive oil and professional wine studies at Culinary Institute of America.
Sanders started Crush and Press in January 2009, financing it through a Kickstarter campaign to which I gladly donated. The olive oil quickly took off, and has already received mention as “one of the best olive oils in the world.” This olive oil, Sanders Fresh Press, received the mention.
Congratulations, fellow Kentuckian!
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The Rambling Epicure Made Loads of New Friends at the Wendell Berry Conference 2013
by Jonell Galloway
“A Rambling Epicure”: a short article about my work
One great thing about spending 3 days with a group of like-minded people, who have come from all over the country (and Switzerland) to pay homage to their “spiritual guide”, Wendell Berry, is that the audience is already filtered, and you can be sure to meet people you can relate to and that you will stay in contact with.
Wendell Berry speaking in Frankfort, Indiana
Such is the case with Elias Crim, a native Texan who spent “several good years studying classics and medieval Italian at U.C. Berkeley before wasting several more years in financial journalism around Chicago.” Crim has also written for The American Scholar, The American Conservative, the Washington Times and The Chicago Observer.
This is the only photo ID I could muster up and I think it rather amusing.
He also runs a website, Solidarity Hall, which he describes as “as a hospitable old hostelry, a mental oasis in the deserted landscapes that surround us. We no longer have the coffeehouses of eighteenth-century London, where Samuel Johnson and his friends said more of substance in an hour than our blogs today could manage in a week. Nor do we have a local culture of pubs such as Chesterton’s Old Cheshire Cheese, where friendship could flourish easily, even amidst clashing opinions.” I thoroughly recommend that you take a look and start a conversation of your own.
Elias was so kind to publish this article, “A Rambling Epicure,” about my work after the Wendell Berry conference. I invite you to take a look.
Start here and then continue on Solidarity Hall:
Jonell Galloway is surely the only person from Hardinsburg, Kentucky, to ever study Sanskrit. But that’s secondary. More important is the way this spiritual daughter of Wendell Berry has developed the Rambling Epicure, an encyclopedic and literate website which describes itself thusly: “A gastronome’s guide to mindful eating. A serious approach to real-food shopping, cooking, and dining.”
Click here to continue.
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