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Sampler Platter 07.27.09

by: JayinPortland

Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 17:35:03 PM PDT

Marion Nestle takes on 'better' junk food marketing efforts, and also brings us a recap of her recent trip to Fairbanks, Alaska.
Michigan farm families are having success in going farm-to-door, as more and more Michiganders are eating closer to home.
School Lunch Talk brings us some info on fast food in schools, and other statistics from America's cafeterias.
A group of Lane County, Oregon residents seeking to create a pesticide buffer zone around their homes to protect their farms and families from aerial spraying of nearby commercial forest land by helicopters, are gaining traction with their county commissioners.
Over 100 farmers, entrepeneurs and investors at a "slow money" conference in Madison, Wisconsin today discussed how to finance and rebuild local food systems and infrastructure.
According to researchers, 90 percent of television food advertisements aimed at American children are for junk foods. That number is also the same in Germany, while the "lowest" percentage of the 11 countries studied was 50% in Britain and Australia.
The City of Seattle is making it easier for residents to turn parking strips into gardens.
Hamburgers are for imperialists, comrade! North Korea's first fast food restaurant serves "minced beef and bread", instead.
An "etiquette" question - is it rude to take pictures of your food in a restaurant? I've done it a few times myself, but I snap my shots quick and low, and preferably when nobody else is around.

JayinPortland :: Sampler Platter 07.27.09

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Sampler Platter 07.27.09 | 5 comments

hmmm (4.00 / 2)

i would think it is NOT rude to take pictures of your food...in fact could/should be taken as a compliment to the chef!
(& if you're noticed i bet the mngr/chef will think you're writing a revue of their establishment & fall all over themselves to please you)
but then i'm really old school so what do i know....

come firefly-dreaming with me....

by: RiaD @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:04:26 AM UTC

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Thanks... (4.00 / 2)

That's kinda what I was thinking, but I can see how, under some circumstances (like the person standing on a chair mentioned in the piece), some other people in the restaurant might object, or at least find it a distraction...

I'm thinking there's also maybe an indoor / privacy kinda thing for other people who might potentially end up in the picture? I mean, a restaurant is a public place... but being indoors, I'd think it's probably not "as public" as, say, a park or even a farmers' market, where you have to expect that you might end up in somebody's picture. So that's why when I take mine I do it low to the table and quick, and make sure nobody else is in the shot.

That's why my restaurant food pics probably suck, lol. See Eating Portland: Breakfast at Vita Cafe and Drinking New Jersey for just two examples of how terrible my restaurant food shots are...

:)

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

by: JayinPortland @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:19:20 AM UTC

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I wonder if the fabulous asparagus from (4.00 / 1)

Michigan is making a comeback.

Of course you can disclose your national security clearance when challenged on taking pictures of beautiful food in a restaurant!

by: madaprn @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:16:49 AM UTC

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parking gardens (4.00 / 1)

is such an incredible idea and what a great use of space it is. I envy the residents of Seattle. here in NJ the lawn nazi's would never allow it, unless of course you slipped some cash.....haha. Stories like this make me wish they had 'zoning' parties at municipal buildings....maybe with a few thousand people outside screaming and shouting about outdated zoning and code laws, the powers that be might do more than reach for the next doughnut :)

by: wickets @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 11:47:00 AM UTC

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Lol... (0.00 / 0)

You're in New Jersey? I grew up there. It's wonderful that so many of our politicians back there are still making us "proud", isn't it?

I have no connection with any of the 793 or so who were just arrested last week; but I was once a huge supporter of Joe Vas (as Perth Amboy mayor and back in his US House run to replace Menendez), who was indicted himself a couple months ago.

_{hanging head...}

I used to occasionally bump into Jim McGreevey in a Woodbridge Quick Chek back in the late-90's as well, where he'd call out to me and a friend by name. I'll always like Jim, though...

Anyways.

I'm kinda sorta half-considering (okay, maybe one-hundredth considering) moving back to Newark these days, and I think it would be really exciting to get in on the ground floor back there in the urban farming movement.

Besides Newark (let's take Brick City Urban Farms everywhere!), I'd say off hand that Asbury Park would be a fantastic place to begin... and from there, I can see making use of the massive empty lots in Camden, Trenton, the Bayway area of Elizabeth, Carteret, New Brunswick, Passaic, etc...

Heh, but then I wake up and realize that it's New Jersey, and the only thing anybody'll ever let grow there are detached suburban homes with (like you said) huge lawns. Meh...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

by: JayinPortland @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 12:48:13 PM UTC

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