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Alabama’s Fat Tax - Constitutional?

More opinions & facts on Alabama's Fat Tax - The Stranger's Erica Barnett

2009 Food & Travel Predictions

Annual food predictions are always interesting, don’t you think?  Here they are for 2009.

Where Are All The Women - by Laura Shapiro

Women have come a long way from the days of discrimination in the work place, but there are other factors influencing women chefs from rising to the top in the kitchen. Here are the highlights from Laura Shapiro's excellent & timely article in Gourmet:

“...Take a look at the two liveliest and most influential restaurant scenes in the country. In one of them, women chefs are ubiquitous, and so successful that nobody even remembers the word “discrimination.” In the other, you could fit all the big-name female chefs in town under a single bus shelter.”

Cynthia Nims’ New Food Blog, Mon Appetit

(Photo of Cynthia from her website.)

She said she’d never do it, but she went ahead & did it anyway.

Gourmet Magazine's New Website

Gourmet Magazine has its very own website, free from the generic assemblage of Epicurious. It’s great. It’s perfect! It finally feels like Gourmet! The change is way overdue.

New York Times: Heat is the Invisible Ingredient

At first glance, today’s NYT food page was met with rolling eyes - yah, yah, don’t waste energy, cover the pots, don’t leave the oven on, blah, blah... We’re not morons.

Slate.com: Our Diet's Effect on Carbon Emissions

At work we stumbled upon the horrifying fact that our garlic was being flown in from China. “How can that be?” we asked.

Good, Clean Living: Chez Pim, Haute Couture Chickens & Eggs

(Borrowed from Pim's Website)

Pim, blogger extraordinaire, does a lot of good with her food blog, Chez Pim – this year alone she united food bloggers everywhere & raised over $60,000 for the UN World Food Programme to help fight world hunger.

The Great American Snackocracy

“...Nothing teases out the great paradox of the American character — that we are both a nation of striving, frenetic doers and a nation of blubbery, inert slobs — like the snack-food biz. It's the place where the energized meet the enervated, where the self-starters woo the self-stalled.”

The Amateur Gourmet In Seattle!

Molly (Orangette.com), Brandon (Boatstreet Cafe & Molly's fiancé), Craig, Stacy, & Adam

Adam, the fantabulous Amateur Gourmet, is in Seattle this week to celebrate the New Year.