Tag: Politics

The Ark of Taste

The Ark of Taste

A few months ago, Inside Sonoma published this article on rare local foods. Sonoma County has four of the 200 regional foods recognized on the Slow Food Movement’s “Ark of Taste” list of foods under threat. Photo by Ariane, Inside Sonoma Our specialties include: dry 

Procession of Game

Procession of Game

“In 1886, we gorged. In 2012, we nibble.” So I read yesterday in an article by Robert Krulwich at NPR on the state of overfished waters in the past century.See White House menus from 1886 titled, “Procession of Game.” SOUP Venison (Hunter style) Game Broth FISH Broiled Trout, 

It’s Our Right to Know!

It’s Our Right to Know!

Busy weekend getting those garden beds started? Well, before you plant all those tomatoes, check out the Label GMO’s site. They even print the reminder on seed packets.

Pretty scary to think of how many innocent little seeds are genetically modified! We can change it, or at least make people even more aware of their food choices.

Happy planting!

And here’s the link to Rare Seeds for all your heirloom needs.

SOPA Strike

SOPA Strike

Sorry, guys. The Ravenous Woman blog will be down on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 in protest to the SOPA/PIPA bills on internet censorship. I’m blacking out my site with Wikipedia, Boing Boing, O’Reilly Media in support of start up sites from 8 am EST to