Last night at the Unity Temple, Rainy Day Books owner Vivien Jennings introduced Michael Pollan as "the rock star of the food world." But looking up from my computer in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel just an hour earlier, the gardening essayist-turned-investigative journalist looked like some sort of spiritual guru.
The shaved head. The untucked, long-sleeved white shirt draping his lanky frame. The way he ordered a hot tea with one packet of sugar on the side, instead of a cocktail,
The challenge sounds easy. Can writer Carey Jones avoid consuming any corn, or products that contain corn, for a week?The real question is how much would she actually have to change her diet? Not many of us eat corn every day in its original stalk or cob-form. Cornbread probably isn't on the menu unless you're enjoying barbecue, and sadly, grilled corn has not caught on as a street food yet in Kansas City. But it gets harder when you think about having popcorn as a snack or sodas sweetened wi
The number of calories that soda contributes to our daily intake is a hotly debated topic. Soft-drink manufacturers don't believe that soda should be singled out in relation to the nation's obesity, and critics argue that Americans are slowly drinking themselves into a world of motorized scooters. The Center for a Livable Future (CLF) recently took issue with an argument from Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent that only 5.5 percent of our daily caloric intake comes from soda -- a statistic attributed
