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Chew on This: Civil Eats

By Colleen Lindesay | Friday, January 23, 2009 10:00 AM ET

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By Colleen Lindesay Most of my columns focus on food products and producers I feel good about: the companies I support and want you to support as well. This time, we'll bite down on information instead. Civil Eats: are you reading it? The brainchild of writers and food politics advocates connected to the Slow Food movement, Civil Eats offers thoughtful, insightful writing about sustainable agriculture and food systems.

Take a bite out of some of my favorites:

Curt Ellis' thoughtful post about giving up factory-farmed meat as his New Year's resolution
A run-down on presidential eats -- apparently Laura Bush required organic foods at the same time her husband's policies acted against organic family farmers
Anya Fernald's hilarious tome to the true badasses of the food scene: not Anthony Bourdain's heroin-addled prep cooks, but gator ranchers and cactus harvesters
The new Grow. Cook. Grub. series that focuses on healthy, inexpensive recipes like black-eyed peas

Bon appetit and happy reading! Colleen Lindesay lives, works, writes, drinks wine, honks, whistles and eats in San Francisco. She keeps a blog about jam-making at Delights and Prejudices. She writes her weekly column here every Friday.

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Colleen Lindesay lives, works, writes and eats in San Francisco. She keeps a blog about jam-making at Delights and Prejudices. Colleen will take us into the weekend with her column appearing every Friday at Tonic News.

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Dave

302 days ago

Civil Eats---wow, very cool site. Glad to learn about it.

Of course, residing in the Bay Area as i do, food is such a huge part of the culture. But I've long found Alice Waters' insistence that *food is political* to be very resonant. The intersection of food (how and where it is produced, transported, and sold) with matters of public health, equity / disparity, energy use, and environmental quality are deep, rich, and compelling topics to me. Looks like CE is well-suited for my appetite for such matters!

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colleen

302 days ago

I hear what you're saying.

Even in the Bay Area, some of the choices they discuss on Civil Eats can be tough--eschewing factory-farmed meats is especially hard if you eat out at small family-owned businesses. You want to make smart choices, but you also want that taco, and to suport the family that made it.

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