“That meal — with the salad right on top of the complet, and a bottle of the hard cider kept at truly cellar temperature in an actual cellar — was one I ate every day without ever getting bored with it. I had never given a single thought to how different the lettuces and the [...]
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Why is a Jenny Craig Exec Speaking at a Girls’ Schools Conference?
The Alliance of Girls’ Schools will hold its biennial staff conference this May in Melbourne, Australia. The organization has 140 member schools in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa, all of whom have been invited to come together to explore the conference theme, “Images of a Girl: Diversity, Dilemmas and Future Possibilities.” Slated to [...]
Why I Both Love & Hate Chipotle’s ‘Back to the Start’
Every once in a while my tendency towards procrastination pays off. I started writing this post some time ago, not knowing Chipotle restaurant had plans to run its Back to the Start commercial during the Super Bowl and Grammy Awards show. I’s been around, playing mostly in movie theaters since last summer, but since the [...]
Only You Can Keep Animals Off Drugs
I can’t count the number of op-eds, blog posts and general news articles I’ve read about the FDA’s recent move to ban extra-label uses of cephalosporins — a type of antibiotic – in meat production in the past two weeks, but Mark Bittman’s piece for the New York Times pretty succinctly sums up what most [...]
Detroit’s Urban Farms: Food of the Future or Slow Erosion of Farmer’s Rights?
Legislators in Michigan’s capital are poised to rock the state’s agriculture community with the introduction of a billthat would open up the state’s long-standing Right to Farm Act, a piece of legislature that has protected the state’s farms — those of all types and sizes from the bottom of the mitten to the tip of [...]
Martha Stewart’s Peony Party: Learning About Leisure from a Workaholic Media Mogul
Martha Stewart and I go way back. I attended a blogger party at her New York City headquarters in 2010. It was beautiful, of course, and the members of her staff were gracious, well-groomed and attentive to the guests. Though I arrived too late to meet Ms. Stewart herself, or hear her welcome remarks, I [...]
Why We’re Not Vegan: PETA & Thanksgiving
First of all, PETA, that turkey image you’ve superimposed on that Jack Russell terrier is a Royal Palm. They’re ornamental. You can eat them, I suppose, and some Royal Palm breeders do eat their excess males but there is so little meat it’s really not worth the time to butcher them to begin with. The [...]
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The Truth About Mormons and Mitt Romney
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I Got Left Behind: Thoughts on School Drop-Out Laws
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A Practicing Catholic Sends a Letter to Her Bishop
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What Women are Learning from The Learning Channel
