Articles by Bonnie Azab Powell
Bonnie Azab Powell was Grist's food editor until February 2011. A dot-com-bubble rider turned university refugee, Bonnie co-founded one of the first "food-politics" blogs, The Ethicurean, in May 2006 -- also coining that term to describe someone interested in sustainable, organic, local, and ethical (SOLE) food that also happens to be tasty.
Obsessed with our broken food system, she switched from writing freelance business and technology articles to SOLE food. Her work has appeared in a bunch of places printed on dead trees. She lives in the Bay Area, where she gardens half-assedly and cooks wholeheartedly while running two meat CSAs for small local farms. She loathes the word "foodie."
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Tester amendment protecting local food production now attached to food-safety bill
Last night, consumer groups joined forces with the sustainable agriculture camp, agreeing to enough compromises in the Tester-Hagan amendment for its protections of "family-scale farms" and small processors to be included in the package of amendments agreed to by both sides in advance. This is great news.
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Industry groups putting the screws to senators over food-safety bill amendments
The Tester amendment protecting small farms and processors is still in play, while Feinstein's bisphenol-A ban appears dead in the water.
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Google's Hotpot debuts: Cool party, lukewarm reception
Google's launch party for Hotpot, its new location-based, restaurant-rating service, was just as fun as the old bubble-era shindigs used to be. Too bad it seems more like Why?-ware than Web 3.0.
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Savoring the last of summer with a 'Rustic Tomato and Chard Tart'
Like my colleague Tom Philpott, I believe that cooking "from scratch" doesn't have to be either intimidating or onerous. Tom is a much better cook than I am, but I won't let that stop me from sharing some of the simple meals I make from local, seasonal ingredients.
