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Leah Greenstein

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    South Coast MLPA Proposals May Impact Area Chefs

    Your favorite Santa Barbara spot prawn dish, like Michael Cimarusti's signature salt-roasted ones at his Melrose Avenue restaurant Providence, may be a thing of the past if the most extreme versions of the South Coast Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) proposals pass. Local uni may be harder to get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Crab Guy Returns to the Hollywood Farmers' Market This Sunday

    "Where's the crab guy? That seems to be the question on the minds of a lot of Hollywood Farmers' Market patrons who, in just a few months, have come to count on Santa Barbara's John Wilson for fresh yellow and red rock crab, line-caught halibut and snapper and, occasionally, ridgeback shrimp. Man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Slow Food's Time For Lunch Campaign Aims to Get "Real Food" in Schools

    Say the word "malnutrition" and the image that comes to mind is probably the shirtless 3rd World child with a bulging belly and large, sad eyes that you've seen for years on TV. But the plump-cheeked American kid may be suffering from malnutrition too--though perhaps not from lack of food. One in f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    New CA Budget Cuts Williamson Act Funding, May Affect Local Farmers

    As you probably know by now, last week, after a long political stalemate, the Governor finally signed a new California budget, but not before slashing another $489 million to create what we home budgeters might call "a cushion." Along with more cuts to K-12 and higher education, child welfare servic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Most Lobster Trap Escape Ports Deemed Illegal: One Santa Barbara Lobsterman Goes Gonzo Journalist

    When Santa Barbara lobster fisherman Sam Shrout received a letter from the California Department of Fish and Game last month saying that they were going to start enforcing a 33-year-old law regulating the escape ports for short lobsters on his traps, he was noticeably angry. So angry he took to YouT ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Small Farms Exempt from New Egg Safety Regulations

    Ah, government bureaucracy. Since the discovery in the mid-1980s that table eggs contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella Enteritidis were making thousands of people sick, food regulators and lawmakers have been quibbling over how to address the problem. On July 9, they finally did something about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Dairy Crisis Sends 101,000 Cows To Slaughterhouse

    If lush, green, rolling hillsides dotted with healthy cows chomping on grasses seems like some kind of pastoral fantasy, the reality is turning into a nightmare for California dairy farmers.

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