Articles by Tom Philpott
Tom Philpott was previously Grist's food writer. He now writes for Mother Jones.
All Articles
-
Whole Foods [hearts] Chilean grapes
Photo taken in the produce section at Whole Foods Martet in Seattle, March 31, 2009.
-
Food-movement doc screens March 28 in Emerald City; Philpott, Alice Waters to attend
So, I’m featured as a talking head in a documentary on the sustainable-food movement called Food Fight. Other folks who appear include Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Dan Barber. Food Fight will be screening this coming Saturday, March 28, 7 pm, in Seattle as part of Green Festival. I’ll be attending the screening, and moderating […]
-
Why the foodie press needs to do better work on seafood
I recently finished Taras Grescoe’s wonderful, vitally important book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Everyone who loves seafood and would prefer to be able to enjoy it in 20 years must read it. Basic message: overfishing, pollution, climate change, and abusive aquaculture practices threaten to turn the oceans into […]
-
Using food as a tool of development, not extraction
When Michelle Obama plunged a shovel into the White House lawn last Friday, she wasn’t just preparing a productive vegetable-garden bed. She’s was also tilling fertile ground for debate about new directions for the food system. In the New York Times, Andrew Martin helpfully got the ball rolling in a recent piece called “Is a […]