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I’ve just now finished reading Michael Pollan’s recently published piece in the New York Times Magazine titled Farmer in Chief.
While I was reading it, I had a brief moment where I was gripped with a visceral fear. I do not often find myself dreading the future as I did just now. [...]

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Cavendish Banana
Australia - The Cavendish Banana, 57, Australia, died October 12, 2011. The last commercially viable Cavendish plantation succumbed to Panama disease race 4, surrounded by its offspring, after a valiant many-years and global struggle with the disease. Services will not be held worldwide at 10:30 AM GMT October 15 with representatives from [...]

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Two nights ago, I tried some dog. Actually it was at a Korean restaurant so the title might not be 100% appropriate.
I was not particularly impressed. The dog soup wasn’t that great; certainly not in comparison to the crunchy rice bowl thing with beef I had. I’ll stick with beef I [...]

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The subject of raw milk is one that I’ve been curious about since about a year ago. It was then I first saw an article about it, similar to this one published recently in the New York Times.
My first reaction was in line with my often-libertarian leanings. I was stumped on why it [...]

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An update, those pics from my dinner at Spring (mentioned in this earlier post) are now online here.

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This morning as I rushed off to work due to waking up late, I stopped by House of Flour (Shanghaiist mention)) to get something to eat for breakfast since I had heard good things.
They have tasty baked goods! I really enjoyed the croissant and muffin I had this morning, and now I wonder if [...]

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So when I finally do get around to moving this weekend, there will be a few little things that I will probably miss about my current apartment.
I was going to say that knowing all the people at this food place where I ate noodles a lot was one thing, but, after getting back from [...]

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I’ve been quoted, in French.
Clementine Gallot, a journalism student in NYC corresponded with me via email a little while ago, and this appears to be the article written about some foie gras business in NYC that it was all about.
The specific quote is
Russell Stadler, ancien étudiant de l’Université de Chicago, les soutient: « Je pense [...]

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Tonight I had dinner at this place called Southern Barbarian. I had heard it mentioned before somewhere but I didn’t realize it until I got there and remembered the earlier remarks.
Anyway, City Weekend wrote about it at some point, I forget where. The restaurant entry itself can be found here.
I think [...]

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White Castle Valentine Special
This is great. Hahaha.

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