January 22nd, 2009 By Aaron French
In case you missed it, it turns out that our departed President and First Lady Bush really were the First Family of Sustainable Local Eating, according to former White House Chef Walter Scheib. Laura Bush “was adamant about organic foods,” he said to New York Times reporter Marian Burros, and her staff complied by sourcing from a secret list of about 40 different local farms and co-ops. Read More
October 20th, 2008 By Paula Crossfield
In fifteen days, Americans will make an important decision: who will take the reigns and get us out of this mess. One topic the candidates have mostly left out of their speeches on the campaign trail thus far is food. Whether they realize it or not, when either John McCain or Barack Obama sit down next January to begin the task of fixing our economy, to promote green energy in order to produce the jobs they’ve both promised, and to deal with the climate crisis and health care, food will be the unavoidable issue that keeps cropping up. Read More