Every girl you know with a septum piercing and a thing for Jews hightailed her androgynous-footwear to the Multicultural Center Friday night with a single hope: to get extremely loud and incredibly close with bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer. And his glasses. After a reading from his new non-fiction book, “Eating Animals,” Foer engaged in an hour-long dialogue with Berkeley meat eaters and others alike.
While some think the book is nothing more than a glorified PETA pamphlet with cutesy cover art, we did learn some neat stuff: read more »
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of one of the Clog’s favorite books, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” will be at the Multicultural Community Center (in the MLK Student Union Center) on Friday, Nov. 6.
He’s coming to promote his first nonfiction work, Eating Animals, a book about why people shouldn’t eat animals. It really seems to be a theme in Berkeley this year. Seriously, when’s Ingrid Newkirk gonna come and speak? read more »
At the risk of sounding like closet Aggies, we’ll confess: we dig the American pastoral.
After spending our summer crawling from one Berkeley farmer’s market to another, trash-talking maize and soy Michael Pollan style and scoring free samples of local produce, we understand the ups (and downs) of going organic.
But in the frenzy of the ideological thrust towards that Agriculture Renaissance California’s been waiting for, some argue that Berkeley foodies have gone too far with urban farming. read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 08:01 pm
After a meaty donor threatened to withdraw his support for an on-campus meat-processing plant (yeah, weird right?), Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo cancelled a lecture by Berkeley’s own foodie extraordinaire Michael Pollan. Looks like the donor–the chairman of the Harris Ranch Beef Company–didn’t want young, fertile minds to be Pollan-ated with anti-agribusiness ideas.
Apparently, Cal Poly officials chewed it over for a bit and decided they didn’t want to look like complete ninnies without a shred of integrity, so they opted to “reformat the lecture into a panel discussion” which would (shockingly) include a meat-science expert. Genius, right? read more »
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