Matt and I had a bit of a tiff last night. He picked up four bottles of Naked juice, overjoyed that they would only cost us $14. I didn’t say anything about it, but apparently my face did.

He confronted me.

I explained, “It’s just that I don’t really see the point in spending money on fruit juice. If you want the benefits of juice, why not just eat the fruit itself? It costs less. There’s more fiber. And you aren’t condoning the production of more plastic.”

He proceeded to read the salubrious ingredients, including things like spiralina.

I argued that our venerable ancestors did not drink spiralina out of … Read More

Last night Matt and I trekked to our favorite bookstore in LoDo (as those wannabe New-York cool Denver residents like to say) to listen to a presentation by the author of the newly published Farewell, My Subaru.

Doug Fine proclaims (from the very top of his soapbox) that if he (a Brooklyn-ite who was weaned on Domino’s Pizza) can live locally and get oil out of his life, anybody can.

His argument is mainly compelling (despite the fact that he lives on a 41-acre ranch in New Mexico and seems to sustain himself through the proceeds from his book deal). I walked away from the presentation with the following … Read More

Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley and an activist who helped revolutionize the culinary landscape in the United States through her books and The Edible Schoolyard Project, makes lunch with Kim Severson from the New York Times in the article entitled, Lunch with Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary.

Alice’s new book: The Art of Simple Food–focused on locally produced, seasonal foods–is due out October 2, 2007. At the age of 63, Alice continues to fight the good fight because, as the article says, “True, radical change — a country full of people who eat food that is good for them, good for the people who … Read More