Category Archives: food movies

 

Vegan is as vegan does

Aug 5

How things change. A few years ago – 2006? – celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain visited Victoria to promote his latest book, which I believe was A Cook’s Tour. A strong showing of kitchen folk swelled the audience and there was … Continue reading →

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Food – sight and sound

Jul 4

B is for Bananas (if you didn’t know why it was important to buy these organic and Fairtrade, here’s your briefing)   BANANAS!* trailer.   B is also for Bees   Queen of the Sun trailer from Youtube.   And … Continue reading →

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Organic Islands, featuring Percy Schmeiser

Jul 6

The Organic Islands festival took place last weekend, and we went for a sunny Saturday afternoon of tastings and talks and music. Found some Emmer (aka Farro, in Italy) an ancient wheat now being grown for the first time on … Continue reading →

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Monsanto movietime

Apr 20

Came across this documentary (The World According to Monsanto) which appeared on Arte in France on March 11 of this year. Worth a look if you had any curiosity about what Roundup is, who runs Monsanto, how the company influences … Continue reading →

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GM canola and alfalfa, and a little poetry news

Mar 20

I’ve been discovering some shocking things about genetically modified foods in Canada this week, and so will all of you with televisions that can be tuned to Global for a documentary on Saturday night, March 23 at 7pm (dunno if … Continue reading →

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