Books and Print
Blog: "Free for All" tells us how, if we could put ourselves in the little shoes of people smaller than us, we would do everything we could to make school meals better
By Mark Winne
Civil Eats 2010-02-12
In "Nothing to Envy," a story of ordinary North Koreans - vagabond children stealing fruit and hunting frogs, family patriarchs wasting away as food ran out
By John Delury
Slate 2010-02-10
Review: Michael Pollan's 64 "Food Rules" are intelligent, sensible, simple - and will benefit all of us and planet
By Jane Brody
The New York Times 2010-02-02
Film
Review: Flaming tap water, fracking and other dirty water, air tales from natural-gas drilling in "GasLand," a new documentary
By Robert Koehler
Variety 2010-01-25
Blog: Oscars nominees include documentaries "Food, Inc." and "The Cove"
By Jennifer Merin
About.com 2010-02-02
Films: Bluefin tuna, extinction and "The End of the Line'
By Nathan Lee
The New York Times 2009-06-19
"Food-integrity and humane-handling whistleblowers should not have to rely on an undercover video investigation in order for USDA supervisors to take their disclosures seriously."
Internet
50 free online lectures for the food-focused
Daily Candy 2009-12-30
Review: Ratio app uses weight to take guesswork out of recipes
By Russ Parsons
Los Angeles Times 2009-12-21
Food industry takes lead in romancing the blogosphere
As food companies, battered by recession, woo parents-turned-bloggers with free food, wine, snacks, kitchen appliances, vacations and groceries, nutrition activists worry that it's sly food industry ad campaign. Growing trend fuels legal, social debate over how bloggers disclose freebies. 42 million women in U.S. use social media services each week. But industry efforts can backfire - Nestle party for bloggers erupted into online battle over whether event it distraction from ongoing boycott of Nestle for marketing baby milk formula as substitute for breast feeding in developing countries. And: New FTC guidelines are for advertisers and marketers, not bloggers, says agency representative (click 'See also').
By P.J. Huffstutter and Jerry Hirsch
Los Angeles Times 2009-11-15
Radio
Dairy supports
Senate's version of farm/food bill would protect dairy farmers from price dips, Vermont agriculture leaders say; organic production move would also be supported.
By Ross Sneyd
Vermont Public Radio 2007-10-25
Spooky cakes
Tracing the evolution of Halloween leads a radio reporter to a recipe for iced pumpkin juice and currant-studded Soul Cakes, which once were distributed to beggars and to costumed mummers, from which trick-or-treater tradition might have sprung.
By T. Susan Chang
National Public Radio 2007-10-24
Television
TV: "Food Tech" is nice, nontaxing show that sanitizes food production, making it appetizing
By Neil Genzlinger
The New York Times 2010-01-20
TV viewers, networks feast on cooking shows featuring celebrity chefs, competition
By Gary Levin
USA Today 2009-12-24
Satire mows down cliches of eco-movement militancy
ABC
In early animation by Steve Judge, we're lectured by health-food-obsessed eco-goodnik - a direct tie-dyed forebear to his father figure in new ABC satire 'The Goode Family.' Inspiration stemmed from 1990 Whole Foods ad that said 'Surely you're thinking about what you eat, but what are you feeding your children?' And: Show works best when cultural potshots give way to more basic human needs, says reviewer (click 'See also').
By Michael Cavna
The Washington Post 2009-05-27