Photo: Wee Go Glass Bottles (via Inhabitots)

Food News, Things I Crave, Green Your Eats, Tips, Tools & Techniques, and the Weekly Roundtable (a roundup of our most recent posts).

Food News

• Big meat has tantrum over 10/15 Michael Pollan talk at CalyPoly (via The Ethicurean)
• Sad news from Conde Nast this week: they are closing down beloved food mag, Gourmet. Check out the Eat Me Daily roundup of opinions (from the likes of Hesser, Kimball & others) on the closure.
• Grant Achatz writes about losing his sense of taste (via The Atlantic)
• E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection (via NY Times)
• And related to the piece on beef above… Food Safety Action: What a Difference Investigative Reporting Makes (via Civil Eats)
• Super interesting! Architect Carolyn Steel on how food shapes our cities (via TED)

Things I Crave

• Wee Go Glass Baby Bottles—toxin free and super cute and colorful (via Inhabitots)

Green Your Eats

• We’re at the end of gardening season, but you can still pay tribute to the veggies that sustained you all summer… just in time for some ghastly Halloween decor (via Makes and Takes)
• Did you read parts 1 & 2 of Meet Your Greens last week? Well, here’s part 3 (via The Ethicurean)
• Good news for the organic farmer—it’s possible to make a living! Richard Wiswall on his manifesto The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook (via Grist)

Tips, Tools & Techniques

• Having kids help cook is just one way to get them involved in the kitchen. Check out this great tip to give kids a kitchen drawer of their own from LovelyDesign (via Oh Dee Doh)
• Know an expecting mom (AHEM!)? Check out LilSugar’s list of great prepared meals to bring to new parents
• Cute idea to help kids learn how to set a table (via What Do We Do All Day?)
• Cookie Fridays!  A lovely way to bring together folks in your neighborhood (via Blonde Designs)
• 24 ways to use lingering summer produce from around the blogosphere (via Pink of Perfection)

The Weekly Roundtable

• I spiced up a classic, kid-friendly icebox dessert: No Bake Mexican Chocolate Pudding Pie. More please!!
• I made one dish that served as a simple, yet sophisticated dinner and upgraded packed lunch the next day: Ham, Spinach & Butter Crepes.
• I used chicken breast and a little bacon to turn a summer salad into a satisfying (but still light!) autumnal meal: Bacon and Chicken Panzanella. (Oh yea: and there’s a useful tip on making vinaigrettes in there, too!)
  
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