No less a personage than Eric Ripert spilled the beans on the great unspoken secret of the organic movement: A lot of the food tastes bad. Speaking to an audience of trendsetters at the PSFK New York conference last week, the Le Bernardin chef said, “Organic and sustainable doesn’t mean that your product is good. An organic cheese ten years ago was inedible, like rubber.” Of course, the Ripper also said that with technology on the march, sustainable food will soon be as good as it is virtuous. But it isn’t yet, not always; and only a man of the Ripper’s caliber could get away with saying so in public.
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Fancy Food Show Brings Colonial Fruit Drinks and Our Old Friend Kulfi
Prepare to be assimilated.Photo: Zoe Singer
Taking Food Snobbery to the Next Level; Paula Deen and the Pork Giant
“Localvores” are highly virtuous and a big pain in the ass. [NYDN]
Paula Deen finds herself on the wrong side of a Smithfield Foods labor dispute, and striking workers are calling for her to sever ties with the pork giant. [NYT]
It’s not just red wine with fish anymore: Celebrity chefs are leading the way toward more imaginative wine and beer pairings, from Joe Bastianich's pouring Dom Pérignon rosé with roast pheasant to Laurent Tourondel's quaffing beer with his steak. [Forbes]
An Interactive Tour of the Country’s Greenest Food Business
Bowery Whole Foods: An Effing Steamroller?
Whole Foods will turn us all into black-clad blurs!Photo courtesy Whole Foods
School of Rock for Celebrity Chefs; Organic Produce Got in My Bodega
It had to happen: A cooking school will teach the fine art of celebrity chefdom. [Food Arts]
Albany is looking to get local and organic produce into low-income neighborhoods. [Daily Intel]
A peek inside the supersecret Bite Club. [Off the Broiler]
Related: Stop Being Perfect and Sign Up for Bite Club [Grub Street]
‘Local’ Actor Makes Good (Coffee)
Even people with hairy, unattractive babies can enjoy Local.Photo: Melissa Hom
Did Michael Pollan Throw the Whole Foods Debate? (Just Asking)
Those wilted flowers are surely symbolic of something.Photo: University of California, Berkeley
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