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This Weekend in 'New York Times' Food News

Posted by Alaina Browne, May 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM

Japanese Trend: "Slow-Life Food Porn" describes a trend toward enjoying food and taking it easy.

Crop Research Cuts: Continued reductions in crop research funding are hitting the poorest countries the hardest.

San Francisco's Bountiful Bounty: A guide to a few of San Francisco's farmers' markets. There's one almost every day of the week.

Cooking with Green Garlic: Sometimes called spring or new garlic, green garlic is sweeter than mature garlic and hard to overuse.

Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink: Kitchens on display at the Milan Furniture Fair.

A Brighter Side of High Prices: As food and fuel prices continue to rise, an opportunity emerges for innovators to explore ways to improve efficiencies in food production and transport that weren't cost-effective before.

Into the Trash it Goes: Americans waste an astounding amount of food. According to one study, as much as 1 pound of food per day per American. The Department of Agriculture estimates recovering 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day.

Yes, It’s a Cooperative. But for Whom? The executives of the Dairy Farmers of America, the nation’s largest cooperative of its kind, have often seemed more concerned about pleasing industry executives than members.

Spiked Bubble Tea: New York chef Anita Lo thinks it's time for bubble tea to "grow up." Adding vodka is a "natural step."

Market in East Harlem in Decline: In its heyday, La Marqueta was a thriving market of 500 vendors but plans to revitalize it have come and gone.

On Reviving Defunct Brands: Can dead brands live again? The firm River West bets that they can.

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