Author Archives: Rhona

Have received a couple of notices now about the Google Book settlement. Anyone who owns a US copyright interest in a book that might be included in Google’s mass digitization enterprise (apparently this is any US author (or heirs) and … Continue reading →

In the wave of optimism surrounding Obamarama, it is sad to discover that he’s not as smart about food as one might hope. His appointment of pro-GM, pro-biofuel former Iowa (the corn state) governor Tom Vilsack for secretary of agriculture … Continue reading →

A few idle moments lead me to start jotting in my nice clean 2009 diary… Here are a few items to pencil in. January Tuesday 13thAnother chance to catch one of three fundraiser screenings of Island on the Edge, a … Continue reading →

The Victoria Film Festival‘s on our horizon. Now that we can see the horizon between lashings of rain. It has some food elements, including Mad City Chickens, a film about (what else?) Mad City Chickens, urban poultry farmers in Madison … Continue reading →

BBC Radio 4 provides me with most of my entertainment these days (I bless the internet that brings it to me) and I was spellbound the other day by a documentary called Professor President, which explored Obama’s intellectual and teaching … Continue reading →