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Tom Colicchio's Testimony Before Congress
You may know Chef Tom Colicchio from his many seasons as head judge on Top Chef, and from his wildly successful restaurants. But the celebrity chef has recently taken on a different kind of food project. Yesterday, Colicchio testified before the House Education and Labor Committee in favor of the "Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act." In a well-written and thoughtful speech, he detailed the importance of the Act from a personal act compelling perspective.Progress in School Food Reform: Michelle Obama and Bill Telepan Making a Difference
Michelle Obama just kicked off her new healthy children campaign, called Let's Move. In New York City, chef Bill Telepan is trying to reach those same goals by working directly in school kitchens and improving lunch recipes at public schools. Read on to find out more about these two initiatives.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.Video: Eric Schlosser on 'The Colbert Report'
"God gave us dominion over the animals. Okay? If we can get 50,000 of them in one spot, why shouldn't we?" —Stephen Colbert In Stephen Colbert's interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and co-producer of upcoming documentary Food, Inc., Schlosser lays down the problems with factory farming and genetically modified corn as Colbert tries to derail him by pointing out that "fecal material" is poop and thinking about the superpowers he could get from corn. And so much more! Watch the video after the jump....In Videos: Michael Pollan Interview and Lecture
From online food show Cooking Up a Story comes this four-part interview and lecture with Michael Pollan during which he talks about eating real food instead of their imitations, the ideology of understanding food solely through its nutrients, learning how to eat from culture instead of science, and "voting with your fork" to influence food producers to make better food. Each video is about 10 minutes long, but it's worth making the time to watch them. Check them out, after the jump. [via Culinate]...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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