This story was published by the New York Times over a week ago, but I keep finding myself talking about it, so I figured I would bring it up with the legions of Griddle readers.

Despite the horrific title, "Hip Hop Cuisine" (which just makes me think of this atrocity), the article is an interesting discussion of eating bunnies—er, I mean rabbits. It centers on a rabbit butchering workshop held in What's-Next-In-Food Central: Brooklyn.

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I really hate malls, which is one reason I love this idea. 

From the original story in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer:

Now Vicky Poole, the Galleria's marketing and events director, who worked on her grandpa's farm as a child, expects that by late spring or early summer, there will be fresh tomatoes for sale among the shops and galleries at the downtown Cleveland mall.

Very fresh -- as in vine-grown in bags and troughs hanging from steel stair banisters and ceiling beams in the shopping center that stretches between East Ninth and East 12th streets.

I've been talking a lot recently about the fact that the more I learn about industrial/unsustainable food production, the fewer things I can enjoy eating. This isn't all bad. It's important to be an ethical, conscientious consumer, and sometimes the more you learn about a product (especially when it comes from a local, independently-owned source) the more you enjoy it.

These days I've been finding out a lot about fish.

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Russ KremerSpeaking of Fresh, one of the film's most interesting and affecting stories involves Russ Kremer, a pig farmer in Missouri. For years, he ran a commercial pork operation, which meant daily doses of antibiotics for all his animals. One day he was injured by a hog, and nearly died from an antibiotic-resistant infection he had helped cultivate. This incident was a game-changer for Kremer—he realized that he was not only putting his health at risk, but the health of his friends, neighbors and family. He transformed his farm, and eventually founded the Ozark Mountain Pork Coop, an alliance of sustainable pork producers. 

Nicholas Kristof's column in Sunday's New York Times addresses the threat posed by commercial agriculture's overuse of antibiotics:

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Tomorrow at 7 p.m., the Ambler Theater will screen Fresh as part of their Pennypack Sustainability Series. For information and tickets, visit amblertheater.org or call 215-345-7855.

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A few weeks ago, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced plans to consolidate the city—determining which neighborhoods are viable, and abandoning those that aren't. So, what happens next? From the Wall Street Journal:

Along with the mayor, a number of academics and philanthropic groups are sketching visions of a different Detroit. One such vision has urban farms and park spaces filling the acres of barren patches where people once lived and worked. In a city of roughly 140 square miles, vacant residential and commercial property accounts for an estimated 40 square miles, an area larger than the city of Miami.

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