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		<title>Newer Spuds Promise Less Pesticides &amp; Fertilizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potatoes are notorious users of pesticides and fertilizers.  Back in 2007, I produced an Edible Idaho radio story on how potato production had tainted wells on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Eastern Idaho. That lead the Shoshone Bannock tribes on a search for healthier ways to grow potatoes.  An article in the Capital Press suggests that the entire potato industry is now thinking more sustainably: &#8220;The industry has changed and potato breeders are changing spuds to keep up, researchers said at the Idaho Potato Conference this week. The theme was &#8216;Putting Sustainability into Practice.&#8217; Researchers outlined some of the advantages of new Russet varieties compared with the industry standard &#8212; the Russet Burbank. Most of the new varieties that have come out of the tri-state breeding program (Idaho, Oregon and Washington) in recent years have appreciably higher nitrogen use efficiencies compared with the Burbank, said Jeff Stark, director of the University of Idaho&#8217;s potato variety development program. Alturas, a newer processing Russet, uses about 42 percent less nitrogen fertilizer than the Burbank to produce the same yield, he said. Premier Russet uses about 27 percent less nitrogen and Clearwater Russet uses about 25 percent less.&#8221; In addition, several of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Book Banning, Michael Pollan to Speak at WSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma, a critique of modern food systems that was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, will speak January 13th at Washington State University in Pullman as part of its annual common reading program. What&#8217;s noteworthy about Pollan&#8217;s visit is that only last May the university banned Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma from freshman reading lists.  After already buying 4000 copies, the President and Provost cited financial constraints.  Critics of the ban said political pressure from agricultural interests was the real reason for pulling the book.  The Spokesman Review, in an article written last May, quoted Patricia Ericsson, an assistant English professor who recommended Pollan&#8217;s best seller as saying “A substantial part of the reason was because of political pressure growing from the book choice.”  The Spokesman article went on to say: &#8220;That political pressure apparently was brought to bear by a member of the board of regents, Harold Cochran, who disapproved of the author’s characterization of agribusiness. Cochran owns and operates a 5,500-acre farm near Walla Walla, is a founding stockholder in the Bank of the West in Walla Walla and is a member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial Thanksgiving: Wired.com looks at the assembly line version of turkey day</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/11/29/industrial-thanksgiving-wired-com-looks-at-the-assembly-line-version-of-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: An amazing if slightly unsettling look at the technology involved in getting Thanksgiving dinner to the majority of Americans — from Wired.com): Thanksgiving is about eating, and though local, organic food might be what the cool kids are eating, most people are still eating products of the industrial food system. Whether you’re talking turkey, cranberries or potatoes, industrial-scale processes have been developed to drive down food costs, drive up corporate profits and feed America’s incredible hunger for novel food items. But most consumers of these manufactured meals have little or no knowledge of the machines and methods used to freeze turkeys, turn potatoes into fake potatoes, and cranberries into TV-dinner cranberry sauce. It’s not always pretty, but food scientists’ epic battle to scale up your mom’s recipes without making them taste nasty is worth examining, if not giving thanks for. Turkey is the most iconic component of any Thanksgiving meal. Extensive breeding programs have seriously genetically altered the birds that millions of Americans eat. The birds have more than doubled in size since 1930 to an average of 28 pounds today. Even though we generally eat them whole, and therefore less processed than other meals, food technologists have developed new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finger Steaks: The search for an Idaho original</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finger steaks—those crispy battered strips of deep-fried meat—are an Idaho invention. Tim Woodward, columnist for the Idaho Statesman, recently went in search of the original recipe. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tater Tots: From cattle feed to retro cache</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2008/02/01/tater-tots-from-cattle-feed-to-retro-cache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those crispy potato nuggets were invented on the Idaho Oregon border, from what had been—cattle feed. Yet the Tot has transcended its humble origins, now appearing in trendy bars and restaurants all over America. ]]></description>
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