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The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back At 'Life' : NPR

The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back At 'Life'

October 25, 2010

via www.npr.org

Great interview with Keith Richards by Terry Gross.  The money quote:

"I'm writing songs for Mick to sing and baby, if he picks up on it, we've got it."

I also loved the way he ended the interview: "Nice try Terry." 

 

 

Cheap Seafood's High Cost - Helene York - Food - The Atlantic

The company I visited processes 300,000 to 400,000 pounds of seafood each week, selling to supermarkets and restaurant chefs (including ours). More than half of their sales volume is salmon, of which 75 to 80 percent is farmed. (We only buy the wild stuff though.)

Dozens of pallets of salmon trucked 1,500 miles from ocean pens in British Columbia. They are stored in a large room consistently chilled to 36 degrees F. The fish are packed in uniform-sized disposable boxes weighing 100 pounds each; one-quarter of the weight is ice. Everything in the room is white—the lab coats we're wearing, Styrofoam boxes, fluorescent ceiling bulbs. It looks like a morgue for the sea.

via www.theatlantic.com

In this piece, Helen York of Bon Appetite Management Co. asks why more fish waste can't be turned into cat food. I asked this same question when I visited a plant in Alaska. The reason, it turned out, was that the fuel needed to process the cat food was more than the cat food would earn. Hence, the waste ended up in the bay as fish food.

PR war mounts over food, big ag nervous

One thing is certain, Michael Pollan is the most feared man to agri-business interests. To wit, from Agri-Pulse: “The Michael Pollans of the world and others of his ilk really have captured the imagination of the American public who now think that ‘organic’ is a brand and that everything else that is out here… has no brand image whatsoever,” said Jay Vroom, the CEO of CropLife America, an organization that advocates for the use of pesticides.

via civileats.com

NPR gives nod to Celia Cruz

NPR had a great piece on singer Celia Cruz today. If you grew up in NYC in the 1970s and hung out on Loisaida, you knew who this singer was.