Category “Food”

“Scary” New Food Documentary is Receiving Excellent Reviews

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times calls it “one of the scariest movies of the year” and describes it as “an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding,...
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Some Cool Food Tidbits

We’re delighted to see that food politics and the movement away from industrialized agriculture has become quite the hot topic lately.  It’s true that this important cause has had a small group of dedicated followers in our country for decades, but...
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Interesting News Items You Might Have Missed vol. 4

We’ve got a full load of interesting news items you might have missed over the past couple of weeks.  This was definitely NOT a slow yoga news week. Let’s dive right in! 1) The New York Times just ran a...
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Bad News for Tea Lovers…

-by Nicole Mercedes For those of you who love your tea as much as we do, you might be interested in checking out this BBC News article about the possible drastic increase of the price of tea in the near...
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A Blog We Like A Lot

Okay we’re weird, we know, but we like to look at pictures of mouthwatering, fresh, healthy food, and imagine how delicious that food must have tasted in person, and then go try to make a dish inspired by that delicious-looking...
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Santa Barbara Food News

Just three bits of potentially interesting Santa Barbara food news, especially for you yoga-minded peeps. Food News Item #1:  (re-posted from  SantaBarbara.com):  ”A new late-night restaurant named ‘QuesaDilla Rilla‘ is coming to the downtown area. They will be open until 4am...
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Interesting News Items You Might Have Missed

1) The Obamas have planted a high-profile vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House featuring 55 varieties of vegetables.  Wowza!  It’s the first vegetable garden to grace the White House yard since World War II.  The Obamas intend...
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A Little Story About Julienne…

Today we have a little bedtime story for you that involves our favorite restaurant in Santa Barbara, Julienne, and a famous person.  As we’ve explained before, Julienne recently opened two doors down from Drishti on our beloved little corner of...
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Food For Thought

“Organic and Local is So 2008″. This is the title of  a provocative article on food policy by Paul Roberts in Mother Jones!  The article’s bi-line reads: “Our industrial food system is rotten to the core.  Heriloom arugula won’t save...
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