Weekly Digest

Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks.
Food News
- Frank Bruni—moving out of the New York Times and into…the New York Times Magazine (via Diner’s Journal)
- Is there really more food-borne illness than when we were kids, or do we just hear more about it now? (via New York Times)
- Can a new “class” of soda really reeducate the American palate? And improve our families’ health? (article via Slash Food)
- Go Ghent! Belgian city goes meatless once a week (via Yum Sugar)
- You don’t say?! El Bulli chef studies up on pizza to open a (straightforward!) pizzeria in Barcelona (via LA Times)
- Lays (as in potato chips) goes local (via Yum Sugar)
- And they aren’t the only ones…When ‘Local’ Makes it Big (via New York Times)
- Chicago and Minnesota ban BPA (via Civil Eats)
Things We Crave
- The ChowPapa and I dream about spending some time in Cophenhagen—and, for me, their bike culture is half the reason why. Here’s a new stroller-bike version perfect for greenmarket-shopping with your kid (by Taga) (via Treehugger)—and another, with the boot in the back, that I’d love to own (MADSEN Cargo Bikes)
- Keep your lunch confidential with these Anthony Bourdain lunch bags by Sam Morrison (available at his Etsy shop) (via Eat Me Daily)
- Love these S&P shakers from Jonathan Adler (via decor8)
Resources
- Book review: Righteous Porkchop by Nicolette Hahn Niman (via Eat Me Daily)
- Video: Michael Pollan on ‘The Colbert Report’ (via Serious Eats)
Green Your Eats
- Creating a Waste-less Lunch (via The K5)
- The Oregonian’s Guide to Composting for Down-to-Earth Cooks (via Apartment Therapy)
Tips, Tools & Techniques
- 13 Strategies for Shopping a Farmer’s Market (via Chicago Tribune)













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