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Foodism celebrates artisanal and sustainable culture and cuisine with recipes and reviews of San Francisco Bay Area restaurants, arts, and events.

Foodism features local, organic, heritage foods, community farms and urban gardens, farmers' markets, culinary collectives, and food artisans, offering both sober and satirical reports and ruminations on  a diversity of  topics including sustainability, biodiversity, permaculture, global warming,  urban agriculture, poetry,  politics, and pastry.

                                                                                                       

                                               Oh wonderful! Oh wonderful! Oh Wonderful.

                                         I am food, I am food, I am food! 

-Taittiriya Upanishad 

 
A Fresh Fantasy

 


There’s something fishy going on in your supermarket aisle. It involves “Tasteless Smoke”, or carbon monoxide isolated from woodsmoke that when applied to fish lends the flesh a rosy, candy-apple hue. When the process is applied to fresh-frozen fish, the thawed fish, (assuming it remains sealed behind plastic in its "controlled-atmosphere" package), will remain fresh-looking even after it has spoiled.

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Green Gulch Farm

At Green Gulch Farm, obsidian blades and arrowheads from Miwoks are still found in furrows. In 1838, the area was held as a Mexican land grant, Rancho Sausalito, where Portuguese ranchers and workers from the Azores settled several interlocking dairy ranches.

 

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Water Wars

 In her book   Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, Vandana Shiva, one of the world's leading environmental and human rights activists, outlines the historical roots of our corporate-run culture and the erosion of communal water rights. 

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The Meaning of Tea
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Meaning of Tea is a well-crafted homage to tea and its influence on global culture.The film asks a simple yet profound question. How can a humble cup of tea, fully appreciated, provide such spiritual sustenance?
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