ScienceDaily -- At about this time next year, nearly all of the 2,800 wild, rare and domesticated grapes in a unique northern California genebank will have had their "genetic profile" or "fingerprint" taken. (Full story here)
We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another.
-- Michael Pollan
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Eric Burkett, a chef and freelance writer based in San Francisco, writes about food, cooking, and sustainability issues. Over the years, he has covered politics and government, as well religion, and growth and development for newspapers in Alaska and California including Anchorage Daily News. Eric cooks for Blue Fog Market and writes as the Food and Drink Examiner for Examiner.com.