Women in Food
Chef Edith Murnane named Boston's first food policy director
Edith Murnane has always been defined by food, from the bucolic 700-acre apple orchard where she grew up to her Jamaica Plain restaurant, which served an extraordinary chili that tempered the bite of chipotle peppers with dark Belgian chocolate.
Now Mayor Thomas M. Menino has pulled Murnane out of the kitchen to employ her gastronomic know-how in a new way. Murnane has been named Boston’s first food policy director to help increase access to fresh eats and expand opportunities for urban farming.
“Bringing fresh food into the city is really important to the city’s health, both its physical health and its economic health,’’ Murnane said yesterday. “We need to be better at making food physically accessible to everyone across the board.’’
For more on this Boston Globe artcile by Andrew Ryan click here.
"The 411"
New Orleans chef sues BP over decimated seafood
New Orleans chef Susan Spicer doesn't want to get rich from her lawsuit against oil giant BP, she says. Instead, the owner of Bayona seeks to enlist her peers in a class-action lawsuit as a way to protect both the reputations and the livelihoods of the area's seafood restaurants. Since the spill, supply has been decimated, prices have shot up and customers are wary of eating the seafood for fear of contamination. "We are already seeing casualties right and left, human [casualties], business casualties, cultural casualties," she said. NYTimes.com/Diner's Journal blog (6/28) To read more click here.
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Education, Scholarship and Mentorship
WCR’s 2010 Scholarship and Internship Program is now closed to applications and the judges and hosts are working hard to choose this year’s recipients. For information regarding the program and timeline click here.
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