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Last winter Green City Market to feature Alice Waters

Saturday is the last winter Green City Market. Alice Waters, of Chez Panisse, will attend the outdoor market and will sign copies of her book from 10:30 to 11:30, according to the Chicago Tribune’s Stew blog.
The book, “The Edible Schoolyard,” is about a school garden Panisse started with a group of volunteers and teachers [...]

Tracking US foodborne outbreaks takes 3,000 agencies — who watches Chicago?

While much is being made of food production safety, the New York Times is reporting that the methods of tracking people who suffer food-borne illnesses varies by state. To further complicate matters, 3,000 different agencies (at the federal, state and municipal level) have a hand in the process, and some are more thorough than [...]