Mud Baron

I met Jamie Oliver on January 17, 2011 when I went to the Food Revolution taping in Westwood. At the time, I was the Policy Deputy for the office of Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte; going to the show and trying to help Jamie ended... continue reading on LAist

Kathleen Merrigan meets with local producers at a farmers' market this month (Photo via USDA) In Washington DC the USDA's Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and locavore darling Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan take to the internets today at 11 a.m. local time to launch the USDA's new Know Your... continue reading on LAist

You can thank Alice Waters for yet another thing: Chipotle founder Steve Ells' enlightened approach to fast food (or as they call it, fast casual.) The rapidly expanding chain of farm-to-fast food eateries started by the Waters protege ran a two minute commercial featuring a cover of Coldplay's "The... continue reading on LAist

Screenshot Every year Project Censored rounds up the annual most horrible stories you don't know about. They are after all, umm, "censored." Regardless, I dutifully read them like a looky-loo at a crash scene on the 101. So while Time Magazine has declared 2011 as the "year of the... continue reading on LAist

School lunch served in Virginia in October 2011 (Photo by USDAgov via Flickr) Nearly a year after chef and activist Jamie Oliver visited LA and our schools' lunchrooms none other than Rush Limbaugh weighs in on our kids and their eating habits at the Los Angeles Unified School District.... continue reading on LAist