otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

As you’ve probably ready, Joel Stein has recently written an article in Time questioning the logic of the local food movement. He has added a fourth meal to the industrial, organic and hunted/gathered meals that Michael Pollan describes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The meal is prepared from ingredients that were shipped from more [...]

Whole Foods Market — where I worked for several years in the nineties — has opened on Kensington High Street. The opening has been well covered in the media, and my friend Valentine dedicated a recent blog post to it.
After reading the news and Valentine’s blog post, I started doing some googling, mostly [...]