This Week’s Time Magazine Feasts on Issues of Food
While the cover of this week’s (June 12th) issue of Time Magazine shows images from the war in Iraq, inside, there are a plethora of articles of interest to foodies everywhere.
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, presents “Six Rules for Eating Wisely,” which includes the great advice to never eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food, while Margot Roosevelt tells readers about “The Grass-Fed Revolution,” enumerating the benefits to our health, the health of animals and the health of the environment, of eating pasture-raised beef.
For those who are interested in the issues of eating locally, Roosevelt also presents “The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet,” an article which features the philosophy of The Locavores, mentions the Eat Local Challenge Blog, and includes quotes and a photograph of myself (Barbara) of Tigers & Strawberries. (So, if you have had a burning desire to know what the heck I look like, run out and pick up the print edition of the magazine, which hits the stands tomorrow.)
But, wait, there’s more! An in-depth treatment of “The Magic of the Family Meal” by Nancy Gibbs digs into why family mealtimes are so important for kids, parents and society in general, and the ways in which busy modern families are working hard to create time to eat together. In a similar vein, Amanda Bower tells the story of two communities and how they changed school lunches from being bastions of fat, sugar and salt, into fresh food filled with nutrition in “Retooling SChool Lunches.” The question of what foods are best for just-weaned babies is discussed in Pamela Paul’s “Rethinking First Foods.”
Many people want to know “Is Teflon Risky?” and Michael Lemonick reveals some answers and suggests an old fashioned substitute for teflon– cast iron, while Sora Song’s “How Sweet It Isn’t” takes on the issue of artificial sweeteners and why they haven’t really helped Americans slim down. Speaking of slender, “2 Thin Chefs” by John Cloud looks at how Giada De Laurentis and Suzanne Goins stay skinny even while they work with tempting foodstuffs every day. Genetics and diet are paired in Christine Gorman’s “Does My Diet Fit My Genes?”
Finally, Jyoti Thottam presents a profile of how The Cheesecake Factory chain of restaurants is bringing ethnic foods, reworked to appeal to a broad range of palates to the tables of Middle America, and in doing so has changed how Americans eats in “Catering to the Melting Pot.”
As you can see, this week’s issue is just filled with fodder for thoughtful foodies, and it is well worth picking up the paper copy, just so you can pass it around to your friends and family who are sans-Internet (yes, there are a few of those folks out there) just so you can start some fun conversations.
