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Video: Corby Kummer and Robert Paarlberg Discuss Food Politics on Bloggingheads.tv

In this episode of Bloggingheads.tv, the video blog where all kinds of thinkers go head-to-head on issues, Corby Kummer, editor of the Atlantic's Food Channel blog, and Robert Paarlberg, a political science professor at Wellesley, discuss many serious food policy issues. Paarlberg is the author of a new book called Food Politics (not to be confused with the Marion Nestle one). In this 45-minute chat (yeah, it's pretty long) the two tackle topics like organic farming vs. using synthetic soil, and whether or not you can really prescribe one mode to feed a lot of people.

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Post a Comment | Posted by Erin Zimmer, May 24, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Tagged: Bloggingheads, Corby Kummer, food politics, Robert Paarlberg, The Atlantic, videos

More Cupcakes

Available on Etsy, $26 Two bits of cupcake-related ephemera came across the transom this week. Might as well roll them into one post. First Corby Kummer examines the cupcake in the March issue of The Atlantic. After the now-obligatory yes-cupcakes-are-overexposed-but-I'm-still-going-to-write-about–them intro, he goes on to say that "the craze is worth keeping" if only so bakers will get the damn things right. Cupcakes may be largely icing-delivery vehicles, but the cake shouldn’t be cardboard and the icing shouldn’t be grease—twin concepts few artisan bakers (artisan being the new word for homemade) seem to get. Cooked French buttercream, which many of them choose (it shows off Technique), is not a suitable cupcake icing. It’s oily. It smears. A simple glaze—think...

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, February 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: cupcakes, Etsy, The Atlantic, videos