According to a great story by writer, and sometime fisherman, Tom Gogola in this week’s New York Magazine, 7.3 million tons of fish that don’t meet fishing quotas die on board ships after the more desirable swimmy creatures are sorted through and put aside. That wasted, dead millions? Tossed back into the water. It’s a mind-boggling amount of creatures killed and tossed aside for…
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Our Best Stories of the Year
On July 12, 2010 we launched our boat into a sea of cooking, chef and recipe sites. Toque’s slightly different angle on food writing–the culture and history and eccentricity that lurk behind a seemingly mainstream topic–is refreshing (we hope) and provocative (we really hope). In this new age of open journalism, tightly curated publications are fast becoming the exception rather…
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The Best and Worst Potluck Dishes
By Laurie Wiegler If you are like most Americans, you’ve had your fill of potluck suppers: questionable Jello molds and fly-ridden macaroni salads atop red-and-white-checked tablecloths. The bologna with American cheese on white bread; the fatty chips; the salmonella-ready fried chicken that’s been perched on a paper plate for hours in the hot sun; you know it all too well….
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Food App Review of the Week: Burger Recipes
Burger Recipes: The Ultimate Collection Developer: feathermoor Cost: $1.99 Runs on: iPhone Website: www.feathermoor.com Nothing screams American cuisine like a burger. It’s a simple concept—a piece of meat between two pieces of bread—that is open for interpretation; cheap or gourmet, beef or turkey, meat or vegetarian. Don’t get me started on the condiments, toppings or the bread. Each of these…
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In Italy, Both Cattle and Their Caretakers Verge on Endangered
The once-plentififul, wild-raised cattle of Tuscany have a new problem: The numbers of their caretakers are starting to dwindle as much as their own, according to a story in today’s New York Times written by Gaia Pianigiani. The herds of maremmana — prized for their meat difficult to find outside of the region (but once sourced by ambitious Chef Cesare Casella at his…
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Chipotle Announces It Will Double Use of Locally Grown Greens, Etc.
Putting the slow in fast food, the burrito-making chain Chipotle announced that they will double their already hefty use of local produce in their stores nationwide “from about 5 million pounds in 2010 to more than 10 million in 2011,” according to a story by Zak Stone in today’s Good. Make ours a black bean and rice with cheese and avocado, please!
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