 The Bi-Rite Stuff
COVER STORY: With a new farm in Sonoma and a new arts space in the Mission, Sam Mogannam is determined to turn his tiny grocery store into even more of a nexus of food and community.
(Edible San Francisco,
Oct./Nov. 2008)
 Return of the Butcher Shop
The women of Avedano's in Bernal Heights are picking up tools honed by years of tradition.
(Financial Times (UK),
June 2008)
 Barren Spring
Author Claire Hope Cummings dishes the dirt on genetically modified food.
(Grist.org,
August 1, 2008)
 The
missionary of retail
Walter
Robb, co-president of Whole Foods Market,
wants the rest of the Fortune
500 to embrace values-driven capitalism.
(Corporate
Board Member,
Jan./Feb. 2007)
• Read the
long version of this interview
 Michael
Pollan's new book
on the U.S. food
chain provides few
soundbites — but
much to chew on
A
growing number of Americans
are scrutinizing ingredient
labels and asking, What
is this stuff? Michael
Pollan
can tell you. In "The
Omnivore's Dilemma," he
takes readers to the
feedlot, to the farm,
and into the woods to
learn a few simple things:
what we're eating, where
it came from, how it
got to our plate, and
its true cost. Will we
have the nerve to follow
him?
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
April 11, 2006)
Not available online:
Good Cob, Bad Cob: A review of "King Corn"
(Gastronomica,
Spring 2008)
Having a Ball in Tunisia
(Meatpaper,
March 2008)
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Clif Bar's husband-and-wife CEO team talk about staying independent in a Big Organic world.
(Grist.org,
Sept. 28, 2008)
Staying Private Cost This Founder $60 Million
That's how much Gary Erickson had to pay his former partner after he changed his mind about selling Clif Bar, a maker of all-natural munchies. Any regrets? None, he says.
(Corporate Board Member,
Sept./Oct., 2008)
 Review: "Hungry City"
The current food crisis is nothing new, according to Carolyn Steel in her wide-ranging and engaging book, "Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives." Cities have struggled to feed themselves since man first got sick of chasing woolly mammoths around with sticks.
(Financial Times,
June 2008)
 San
Francisco is hitting a new high
The
mood in the Bay Area is exuberant — almost
as if the dot-com crash were but a distant
bad dream. Here's a quick guide for business
travelers about where to stay, where to eat,
and where to see and be seen.
(Condé
Nast Portfolio ,
April 14, 2007)
 Infoporn
Ground Zero of the obesity epidemic? The center of your grocery store.
(Wired,
December 2007)
 Menu's
pastoral descriptions may not be what they seem
What's
in a name? Seeing a "White Marble Farms" pork chop
listed on a menu at a restaurant that serves sustainable, organic,
local ingredients where possible, one could be forgiven for
making some assumptions about it. But the pork, while quite
tasty, was not what it seemed.
(San Francisco
Chronicle, October 18, 2006)
More:
Michael Pollan, Whole Foods' John Mackey usher Berkeley foodies into 'ecological era'
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
February 28, 2007)
Celebrating Thanksgiving, Berkeley-style: Many on campus are learning about where their food comes from - and getting up close and personal with it
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
November 2006)
"Dark times": Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan discuss our fast food nation
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
October 2006)
Trader Joe’s: Billions from Nuts, Veggies, and Two-Buck Chuck
(Corporate Board Member,
May/June 2004)
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