07.11.2008 12:40 pm
The revolution will not be microwaved
P-D Restaurant Critic and Food Writer
Beki Marsh, head of the local Slow Food chapter, recently sent her e-mailing list a link to an interesting essay from the American Conservative framing this whole locavore thang as a valid conservative cause.
I feel compelled to share. Here, dear readers from the right, left and all points in between, is some Food For Thought. Thanks, Beki!
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Joe Bonwich has been the restaurant critic for the Post-Dispatch since 2002 and has covered the local food scene for various publications for more than 25 years. He does his best to maintain his anonymity so that he isn't recognized in restaurants (which is why his picture looks like it does). 
there is a wave of edible landscape sweeping over London, and a few weeks ago there was a buzz at the STL Green archtecture conference.
Inner cities have had gardens for years now, Gateway Greening administers over 130 in STL. New Roots has been around for a handful of years now. SLU has been working on school gardens (albiet small). Maplewood School system is working on it as I’m sure others are too.
A food series at Wash U had a social anthropologist in from Emery (Atlanta) which is one of the top rated green campuses around.
There is some interesting research going on that was briefly mentioned by a Wash U professor about the ratio of fossel fuel used in pickups to come to farmer’s markets vs semi trucks.
Cuba has had a good organic template for innercity farms….they didn’t have a chose but to be organic with the embargo. It can be done.
Money should not be a deterant for sourcing fresh food. Teaching people how to prepare it is much more of an issue.
Just my two cents.
**Andy Ayres has always claimed that eating is a political act.