I’m a voracious reader of many blogs and online publications and I am constantly bookmarking stuff that looks cool to me, or pertinent to this blog so I’m going to try to be a bit better about at least dropping a few links here and there on occasion.  I may not have much to say about them, other than “Hey, check this out” but I can at least get them out in the open (and delete them) instead of filing them away to gather dust!

The folks over at Roadfood Digest just dropped into the L.A. Famers Market, which was one of the highlights of my last trip to SoCal and probably one of my most favorite food destinations I’ve been to.  The sheer variety of food vendors was completely overwhelming to me and the quality and wildness of the produce available in California was nothing like anything I had seen around here.  Apples the size of my head, fruit so vibrant in color it looked almost neon, that sort of thing.  I did take a lot of pictures (this was well before this blog existed) so maybe I’ll try to figure out where those pictures are and do a post in retrospect, could be fun.

Boing Boing brings us a 20-minute documentary about urban foraging which I found plenty interesting.

Colin McEnroe delves into Connecticut’s future in public transportation.  While not directly about food, any person who lives in Connecticut and likes to eat should perk up when reading words like

As Tom Condon recently said on public radio, the right kind of rail project ould expand the New York City metropolitan area to include more Connecticut cities. That actually puts more flexibility in the American labor market. If a job is a 60-minute train ride away, you can take that job, even if you don’t know how long it will last.

Lastly, Alton Brown on Serious Eats talks about race, class, and their relation to what we eat.  I really like their entire series called Chewing the Fat, so check it all out if you’re interested and have the time.