The NYC Food Film Festival sprang from the imagination of Festival Director George Motz, the documentary filmmaker behind the award-winning Hamburger America film and book, along with co-creator and Festival Executive Chef Harry Hawk, formerly of Schnack and Water Taxi Beach. Through documentaries, features and short films, the Festival showcases the best, and the most memorable, of the world's favorite foods. Along with a heaping helping of mouth-watering films, Motz, Hawk and company serve up the food that guests are watching on the screen for a multi-sensory, full-bodied experience.
Check out the list of selected films here. The schedule hasn't been finalized yet, but click here to receive updates.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
TakePart Post - Medicines, Metals and Pesticides: Your Burger's Hidden Condiments
By Megan Bedard
May 10, 2010
Ever had a copper burger? How about a penicillin taco? Granted, you didn't order one—but you may have downed a patty with metal products or medicines in it and not even known. A recent report by the USDA says food safety agencies aren't up to par when it comes to keeping these harmful substances out of your system.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/05/10/the-meat-you-eat-could-be-toxic
May 10, 2010
Ever had a copper burger? How about a penicillin taco? Granted, you didn't order one—but you may have downed a patty with metal products or medicines in it and not even known. A recent report by the USDA says food safety agencies aren't up to par when it comes to keeping these harmful substances out of your system.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/05/10/the-meat-you-eat-could-be-toxic
Friday, May 7, 2010
Epicurious Recipe - Spring Vegetable Quinoa Pilaf
Quinoa, a grain with a texture like that of couscous, is sold at natural food stores. Serve this side dish with lime wedges.
Hip Hop Video that Captures the "Abnormality" of Junk Food - Vote!
Chicago hip hop artist D-Nick The Microphone Misfit teamed up with B-Boy Super inLight to create "Abnormality", a track for the opening of Graffiti and Grub, the Chicago health food store founded by activist LaDonna Redmond. Their video highlights the physical health issues brought on by artificial, processed foods and encourages us all to look at what we're putting into our bodies. D-Nick and Super inLight both embrace the acronym HIP HOP for "Healthy Independent People Helping Other People" and they are doing just that, using their talents to get the word out that "Eating healthy is the first step in disease prevention." D-Nick has entered the video in The One Chicago, One Nation film contest, whose goal is to reward "videos that tell the stories of people in Chicago from different backgrounds working together for the common good."
Watch "Abnormality" below, and vote for D-Nick (voting ends on May 9th).
Originally posted on Eating Liberally.
Watch "Abnormality" below, and vote for D-Nick (voting ends on May 9th).
Originally posted on Eating Liberally.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Huffington Post Article - Rich Farmers Still Getting Most Government Cash
May 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers crafting a sweeping farm bill in 2008 promised it would cut government payments to wealthy farmers. Two years later, little appears to have changed. Data being made public Wednesday shows that the wealthiest farmers in the country are still receiving the bulk of government cash, despite claims from lawmakers that reforms in the bill would put more money in the hands of smaller farms. At the same time, a series of exemptions written into the bill has made it more difficult for the public to find out who is receiving what.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/promises-broken-rich-farm_n_563977.html
Also see Marion Nestle's post about the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releasing its latest farm subsidy database.
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers crafting a sweeping farm bill in 2008 promised it would cut government payments to wealthy farmers. Two years later, little appears to have changed. Data being made public Wednesday shows that the wealthiest farmers in the country are still receiving the bulk of government cash, despite claims from lawmakers that reforms in the bill would put more money in the hands of smaller farms. At the same time, a series of exemptions written into the bill has made it more difficult for the public to find out who is receiving what.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/promises-broken-rich-farm_n_563977.html
Also see Marion Nestle's post about the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releasing its latest farm subsidy database.
Washington Post Q&A with David Kirby, author of "Animal Factory"
By The Food Section
May 6, 2010
David Kirby's timing looked perfect. His book, "Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment" (St. Martin's Press, 2010) was released just as Congress was holding hearings on legislation that would ban the use of antibiotics in livestock. A growing movement of consumers was demanding to know more about where their food came from. But since the book hit the shelves in March, Kirby admits it has been harder than expected to get a serious conversation going about how to fix the problems caused by factory farming. Federal policies that support concentrated animal feeding operations, better known as CAFOs, are technical, and the politicians who support them are seemingly unmovable. "The subsidies at stake are huge. There are anti-competitive measures," he said. "It's an interesting story. I can't figure it out." Over coffee on Wednesday, Kirby, an award-winning investigative reporter, made the case for why Americans, especially food lovers, should join the conversation.
See edited excerpts of Jane Black's interview with David Kirby here.
May 6, 2010
David Kirby's timing looked perfect. His book, "Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment" (St. Martin's Press, 2010) was released just as Congress was holding hearings on legislation that would ban the use of antibiotics in livestock. A growing movement of consumers was demanding to know more about where their food came from. But since the book hit the shelves in March, Kirby admits it has been harder than expected to get a serious conversation going about how to fix the problems caused by factory farming. Federal policies that support concentrated animal feeding operations, better known as CAFOs, are technical, and the politicians who support them are seemingly unmovable. "The subsidies at stake are huge. There are anti-competitive measures," he said. "It's an interesting story. I can't figure it out." Over coffee on Wednesday, Kirby, an award-winning investigative reporter, made the case for why Americans, especially food lovers, should join the conversation.
See edited excerpts of Jane Black's interview with David Kirby here.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Civil Eats Post - Introducing the FoodCorps
May 5th, 2010
By Paula Crossfield
With one in three children (and one in two children of color) overweight or obese in this country, the health of America’s kids is under the microscope and, for the first time in our history, children born now will not live as long as their parents. Michelle Obama has launched her Let’s Move campaign, and chef Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution brought the school cafeteria to television. But as Oliver’s program showed, one of the biggest barriers to changing kids’ health outcomes is a lack of dedicated labor and expertise. That is where FoodCorps comes in, an AmeriCorps program that would put service members to work building school gardens and establishing farm-to-school relationships in towns across the United States, specifically in places lacking regular access to fresh produce. A collaboration between the National Farm to School Network, Slow Food USA and other groups, the FoodCorps team has raised more than $215,000 from the Kellogg Foundation and AmeriCorps to develop the program, which could begin as early as 2011.
http://civileats.com/2010/05/05/expanding-the-idea-of-food-service-foodcorps/
By Paula Crossfield
With one in three children (and one in two children of color) overweight or obese in this country, the health of America’s kids is under the microscope and, for the first time in our history, children born now will not live as long as their parents. Michelle Obama has launched her Let’s Move campaign, and chef Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution brought the school cafeteria to television. But as Oliver’s program showed, one of the biggest barriers to changing kids’ health outcomes is a lack of dedicated labor and expertise. That is where FoodCorps comes in, an AmeriCorps program that would put service members to work building school gardens and establishing farm-to-school relationships in towns across the United States, specifically in places lacking regular access to fresh produce. A collaboration between the National Farm to School Network, Slow Food USA and other groups, the FoodCorps team has raised more than $215,000 from the Kellogg Foundation and AmeriCorps to develop the program, which could begin as early as 2011.
http://civileats.com/2010/05/05/expanding-the-idea-of-food-service-foodcorps/
LA Times Article - For small farmers, thinking outside the markets
By Russ Parsons
April 29, 2010
People can talk all they want about the important restaurants and the famous chefs that have gotten so much attention over the last 30 years, but for me the biggest change in that time has been the introduction of farmers markets. They have had a revolutionary effect on the way food is grown and marketed in the United States. Still, at a most generous estimate, less than 2% of fruits and vegetables are actually sold at them. So how can they move beyond that?
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-calcook-20100429,0,2547773.story
April 29, 2010
People can talk all they want about the important restaurants and the famous chefs that have gotten so much attention over the last 30 years, but for me the biggest change in that time has been the introduction of farmers markets. They have had a revolutionary effect on the way food is grown and marketed in the United States. Still, at a most generous estimate, less than 2% of fruits and vegetables are actually sold at them. So how can they move beyond that?
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-calcook-20100429,0,2547773.story
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
NY Times Recipes - Substantial Smoothies
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Published: May 3, 2010
Follow the links below to recipes for smoothies that go beyond your typical banana + strawberry combo:
• Oatmeal Spice Smoothie
• Orange Date Shake
• Banana Peanut Butter or Banana Almond Smoothie
• Kiwi Strawberry Smoothie
• Carrot and Sesame Date Shake
Published: May 3, 2010
Follow the links below to recipes for smoothies that go beyond your typical banana + strawberry combo:
• Oatmeal Spice Smoothie
• Orange Date Shake
• Banana Peanut Butter or Banana Almond Smoothie
• Kiwi Strawberry Smoothie
• Carrot and Sesame Date Shake
The Colbert Report - FDA Salt Regulation
See Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Lori Roman, president of the Salt Institute (yes, there's such a thing!), as guests on last night's Colbert Report to debate the FDA's plan to regulate the amount of salt in processed food:
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| FDA Salt Regulation - Lori Roman & Michael Jacobson | ||||
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