Processed Food

Peasant Food Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This

19 May 2011 by Jean Johnson
One bowl meals. It's how to turn gorgeous food out on a dime. A dime of both time and money. In this case, there were leftover French lentils and quinoa in the fridge--so into the bowl they went with some jarred roasted red peppers, a pear from the season's end, and ...

I’ve Seen the Grocery Cart and the Damage Done

15 December 2010 by Jean Johnson
A line I co-opted from Neil Young but so accurate when you think about it. The food industry and the grocers the pushers and us peasants hooked on their grocery carts. Pushing them around the stores in mindless dazes, clutching at things in crinkly packages. Sure that just one ...

From Pizza Quik to Nine-Grain Cereal…

14 December 2010 by Jean Johnson
The exclamation point is so over-used these days, but in the case of this title, it is warranted. That's because in both instances, the food industry--conventional and natural--wants to incite excitement. We will be getting a real deal, they imply, if we take a fast track to pizza with their ...