Tag Archives: food revolution

American exurbs are dying, is America?

By Mark | December 1, 2011

U-M professor of urban planning Christopher B. Leinberger had an interesting op-ed a few days ago in the New York Times on the death of the fringe suburb in America. Here’s a clip. …By now, nearly five years after the housing crash, most Americans understand that a mortgage meltdown was the catalyst for the Great [...]

Posted in Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Black Friday, Burlington, cannibal holocaust, Christopher B. Leinberger, Community Supported Agriculture, consumerism, CSA, fringe suburbs, Intervale, Intervale Food Hub, Jim Kunstler, local food, local food production, Mark Bittman, suburbs, sustainable communities, Travis Marcotte, University of Michigan, urban living, urban planning, urbs, Vermont | 5 Comments

Food Cart culture… has it reached critical mass in Ann Arbor?

By Mark | May 11, 2011

After a lot of little fits and starts, it looks as though, with the opening of Mark’s Carts, food cart culture is finally beginning to take hold in Ann Arbor. We may still be a decade or so behind the scene in Portland, but it feels good to actually be in the race. Here’s wishing [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Food, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arun, Clancy's Fancy, EAT, food carts, food entrepreneurship, foodie, gremolata, Mark Hodesh, pork belly, Portland, Pot and Box, tacos, the local food army | 26 Comments

Doubling down and packing on the weight

By Mark | April 5, 2010

A few people, in the wake of last night’s post on Jamie Oliver and the so-called “food revolution” that he’s bringing to our shores, have demanded that, in the spirit of fairness, I put something up on the site about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s recent announcement that they’ll be going live with the Double Down – [...]