The business of food.
(Book)

Preface : Food movement politics

The new farm movement. America's new farmer: a slow and local practice ; Slow food movement / Food Industry Watch, 2010 ; Bringing local food to the lunch line / Susan McCrory ; Sandhills Farm to Table Co-p goal: meeting local food needs with local food / James Matson and Jeremiah Thayer ; A new prescription for the local food movement / Kendra Klein ; Pastoral romance / Brent Cunningham ; The local-global food connection / Amy Mayer ; Top ten barriers to local food access for low-income individuals / localFoodconnection.org

Media and how-to cooking. Celebrity chefs and foodie culture ; Kitchen gods / Lisa Abend ; How Food Network star whipped a hashtag into a Giada bump / Michael Humphrey ; The reality of reality TV: Jillian Hopke's sweet victory in the Cupcake Wars / Lynnette Porter ; Chocolate-dipped candies, and Geo. Abowd & Son, confectioners / Maureen Abowd ; Bobby Flay would like you to know that he's not the screaming type / Anna Roth ; Food rules / Ali Lorraine, Babriel Beltrone, and D.M. Levine ; Where do foodies come from? / Cliff Bostock

Big food business. The dilemma of mass food production ; Food co-ops brace for arrival of giant rivals like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's / John Miller ; Monsanto, genetic engineering, and food / Betsey Piette ; Is the junk food industry buying the WHO? / Tom Philpott ; Organics "thrown under the bus" in farm bill extension, say industry advocates / Cookson Beecher ; Dissected dreams: California's engineered cornucopia falters / Matt Black ; The other side of the valley / Barry Estabrook

The art of food writing. Everybody's a critic ; Incredible edibles / Kim Honey ; Should food critics be anonymous? My talk with Jonathan Kauffman / John Birdsall ; The food movement, rising / Michael Pollan ; Food anthropology and happy mediums / Dana Staves ; Comfort me with gnocchi / Sara B. Franklin ; My mom couldn't cook / Tim Junod

Open for business. The ins and outs of the restaurant business ; Dinner for schmucks / Alan Richman ; Chef Q &A: Thomas Keller / Becky Paskin ; Charity case: can a restaurant that gives all its profits away succeed in D.C.? / Jessica Sidman ; Opening a restaurant takes sweat, savvy, courage, and cash / Nancy Leson ; Check, please / John Colapinto