Savory and savvy

NY Times food columnist Mark Bittman (The Minimalist) announced last week that he plans to retire that column in order to do a different kind of column that will focus on food policy. Check out the Utne article and links here.

Here’s a pretty serious conversation on a small piece of food policy: taxing soft drinks. This is from a Yale University forum in 2010.

Here’s a classic Minimalist video…on a real basic, brown rice:

We’ll keep you posted on Bittman’s food policy columns, or track him through the NY Times. We need more people like Bittman putting their experience and intelligence on the food policy problems we face in this nation and across the globe.

Tags: food policy, Mark Bittman