Kurt Michael Friese's Posts
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April 30, 2011 11:22 AM UTC --
Recently had the pleasure of cooking dinner for Kai Ryssdal and his crew from the APM show Marketplace (yep, the one you hear every evening about 6:30 on your local public radio station). We talked . . .
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November 27, 2010 11:25 AM UTC --
This week Sarah Palin waded clumsily into the food and obesity issues this country faces while on a radio talk show, and chose the First Lady as her target. No, she did not call Michelle Obama "fat," . . .
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November 05, 2010 03:40 PM UTC --
You would never participate in slavery, right?
I know, it seems like a bizarre question in this day and age–of course no sane, civilized member of a modern society would take . . .
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October 27, 2010 05:31 PM UTC --
A lot of ink, airtime, and media megabytes are being used to cover the huge number of elections going on all around the nation right now. One of the most important is getting very little coverage, even . . .
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October 01, 2010 05:17 PM UTC --
Food history is our true history
I spend a great deal of my time on extremely small-scale food production. Growing, procuring, cooking, eating, and writing about locally produced . . .
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September 20, 2010 11:20 AM UTC --
Note: This post is my submission FoodBuzz.com’s Project Food Blog, a 12-week blogslam to find “The Next Food Blog Star” among over 1800 participants. I’d appreciate . . .
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September 01, 2010 03:12 PM UTC --
What annoys me about the coverage of the current egg recall is that it almost always says, “traced to an Iowa farm.” But, proud as I am of my home state, it’s not misguided regionalism . . .
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September 01, 2010 02:58 PM UTC --
With autumn on the horizon, I always begin daydreaming about big, luscious, weighty reds that are emblematic of the cool, misty evenings of October with all the leaves on the ground. I yearn for the . . .
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July 09, 2010 11:20 AM UTC --
Earlier this year I posted a response to The Atlantic 's Caitlin Flanagan on her opinion of the usefulness of school gardens. Naturally I contended, then as now, that she was wildly off the mark. . . .
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July 01, 2010 11:30 AM UTC --
A few years back I was in a church basement in Oklahoma City preparing a meal for a busload of Florida farm workers on their way home from California. They had gone there to stage a protest at . . .
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June 08, 2010 02:37 PM UTC --
We shake our heads in astonishment at the level of the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. We want to help, but don't know how. Seems no one has the answers, least of all BP, who continues to whitewash . . .
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May 04, 2010 10:25 AM UTC --
Last week an organization of retired military officers called Mission: Readiness published their findings that more than one quarter of Americans age 17-24 are “Too fat to fight.” . . .
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April 07, 2010 09:41 AM UTC --
Ask anyone who knows me and they'll tell you I tend to be a bit of an old-fashioned traditionalist. I like music that many would call classic. Food should be made with real ingredients and traditional . . .
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March 19, 2010 11:15 AM UTC --
Given the scope of the human disaster in Chile following last month’s earthquakes there, it is easy to understand why the impact on Chile’s wine industry did not receive wider media attention. . . .
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March 10, 2010 09:43 AM UTC --
Folks across the country know something is wrong. There’s just something about the system we’ve created over several decades that is inherently flawed. Some blame the government, . . .
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February 27, 2010 09:48 AM UTC --
Ever feel like you were playing checkers and the other guy was playing chess?
That's the sort of feeling I get often when I watch many of the recent spate of food documentaries to be released. Activists . . .
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February 21, 2010 06:35 PM UTC --
When researching the history and lore of a particular food, something I do with perhaps more frequency than the average person, one of my favorite resources to turn to is the late Waverly Root, an American . . .
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February 12, 2010 09:13 AM UTC --
Causing no end of difficulties in our national discourse is the steadfast belief held by both the right and the left that everything is either right or left: bad or good, strong or weak, despotic or . . .
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January 17, 2010 01:09 PM UTC --
This Op-Ed first appeared @ CivilEats.org
In the latest edition of The Atlantic magazine, Caitlin Flanagan has written a surprisingly harsh critique of the popular and growing movement to . . .
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January 17, 2010 12:51 PM UTC --
Regular readers know of my penchant for all things local, and while Iowa is now producing a few very good wines, it remains a challenge for some people to get wine they enjoy made close to home. One . . .
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