http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/756 Chef Ann Cooper is a renegade lunch lady who works to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students - one school lunch at a time. She brings you information to learn about the importance of changing the way America feeds its children. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/756/comment-page-1#comment-198341 The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » Digest: We’re all just lab rats in the maze of the global food chain Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:13:24 +0000 http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p=756#comment-198341 [...] Buying Local for Dummies: Richard Conniff had a blog entry on the New York Times last week with the sensation-seeking headline “Don’t Buy Local” that we ignored because it seemed stupid irrelevant. He started from a faulty premise — that those who buy local do so purely for environmental-footprint reasons (food miles) or worse, to “punish” foreigners, and thus his triumphant proof that often local is no more energy efficient was — to our minds and to the dozens of unusually articulate NYT commenters — an empty victory. Michael Shuman, the author of “The Small-Mart Revolution” and “Going Local” who’s (we think) posting on renegade Berkeley lunch lady Ann Cooper’s blog, does a far better job of setting Conniff straight than we ever could have about the advantages of rebuilding local economies. He also deconstructs that UK study that the Economist and fellow local/organic-skeptics like to reply on. (Lunch Lessons) [...] [...] Buying Local for Dummies: Richard Conniff had a blog entry on the New York Times last week with the sensation-seeking headline “Don’t Buy Local” that we ignored because it seemed stupid irrelevant. He started from a faulty premise — that those who buy local do so purely for environmental-footprint reasons (food miles) or worse, to “punish” foreigners, and thus his triumphant proof that often local is no more energy efficient was — to our minds and to the dozens of unusually articulate NYT commenters — an empty victory. Michael Shuman, the author of “The Small-Mart Revolution” and “Going Local” who’s (we think) posting on renegade Berkeley lunch lady Ann Cooper’s blog, does a far better job of setting Conniff straight than we ever could have about the advantages of rebuilding local economies. He also deconstructs that UK study that the Economist and fellow local/organic-skeptics like to reply on. (Lunch Lessons) [...]

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