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April 2008

Cookin’ to the Beat

Photography by Marla Camp I’m a cook with a dilemma, and it ain’t about my food My baby’s got me cranky, in a terrible mood

Green Corn Project: Toni Rockwell

By Suzanne Hurley Toni Rockwell believes in eating locally, and she walks the walk. The vegetables she grows commute 15 feet from her garden to

Our Man in the Field

By Betsy Levy    Photography by Carole Topalian It’s high noon at the Austin Whole Foods flagship store, and serious foodies are pouring through the sliding

Farm Bill Resources

Farm Bill Resources and Action Items Join a letter writing, lobbying effort by clicking here: www.healthyfarmbill.org/ Go here for a comprehensive updates on the Farm

In Search of a Raw (I)deal

By Betsy Levy Directions to the pick-up point come through a crackling phone connection. The newcomer pulls into a deserted warehouse parking lot, exits her

Damian Mandola’s Next Big Thing

By Lisa Jones     Photography by Carole Topalian Damian Mandola sits calmly in the maelstrom of the morning startup at Mandola’s Italian Market, his new

Local or Organic? A False Choice

By Samuel FromartzPhotography by Link Nicoll  A couple of years ago, I visited an organic vegetable farm in southeast Minnesota, not far from the Mississippi

Slow Food: A Personal History

By Carol Ann Sayle     Photography by Carole Topalian In the 1950s, my mother, Little Dove, spent a lot of time in the green kitchen

The Market is Open

Photography by Jenna Noel The woman in the large sun hat found the baby beets her kind of heirloom—more beautiful than jewelry or antiques, and

Summer 2007-Corrections

In the “In Search of a Raw (I)Deal story, the driving distance to the raw milk dairy farms was mis-stated, not by the writer, but

Publisher’s Note

Some of the best advice I was given when deciding to take the plunge into publishing Edible Austin was to put together an advisory group