Me and Michael Jackson, We’re Gene...

Since the news has become All Michael Jackson All The Time, it was inevitable, no matter how I tried to resist, that I would have to put up a Michael Jackson post. But this won’t be the one you expect. Full disclosure, I was never a huge fan, so my mind is free to roam, when the subject is Michael Jackson, to other tangentially related topics. Today, it’s Generations. It...

Victory Begins at Home. With a Garden.

Our beloved local food icon, Alice Waters — she of Chez Panisse and now champion of the US Slow Food Movement — came out today with a great idea. She wants Obama to appoint a “Kitchen Cabinet“. A real Kitchen Cabinet, food specialists such as herself and food writers Ruth Reichl and Michael Bauer, to advise the administration on local, organic and sustainable...