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Grocery shopping with New York Times food writer Mark Bittman

“Don’t buy anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize”

by macleans.ca on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 2:26pm - 0 Comments

RELATED: Read ‘Wait, is that Mark Bittman in aisle two?‘ from Maclean’s October 18 issue.

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  • CAPS

    I loved his consternation at seeing milk in a bag.

    • http://twitter.com/SlowFoodTO @SlowFoodTO

      A) If milk in bags is our worst problem, we're doing alright.
      B) I buy Harmony Organic Milk in bags at Fiesta.

      • CAPS

        I buy Harmony Organic 1% in a returnable bottle. That must drive Andrew Potter crazy.

  • Emily

    Silliest food advice I've ever heard. Who is this lunatic?

  • Name

    the man has good advice, his first two rules are a little …. well I won't follow them, but his third rule touches on rules of advertising, and the rest of the advice is pretty good, milk in bags isn't his biggest contention, it's just something new and interesting to him :P

    naw, despite the first two rules, and saying it's "inhuman" :P, he's completely right

  • Jane Munsey

    Good advice, I believe. Jane

  • Sheena

    If in 50 years the whole world is eating organic food, then in 50 years our world could be starving to death. Given today's biotechnology, if every farmer switched to their operation to organic production there would not be enough food to feed our world. Add that to the problems of urban sprawl and an expected population of 9.4 billion people, there won't be enough food to go around.

    • Emily

      Exactly. And nobody wants to go back to eating like granny did.

      • true north

        Disagree, don't know about your Granny, but my Granparents on both sides ate well, raised a whole herd of kids and all of them passed on when they where in there 90's.. My family still uses a lot of the recipes that Granny used to use… and I ''still'' use a family ''recipe'' that was my Great Grampa's…..

      • fuddle duddle

        if people ate food not laced with dyes, artificial flavours, artificial fragrances, chemicals, corn sugar ..and steeped in sugar, fat or salt they would probably be better off … modern mass food is pretty nasty stuff …this dude has pretty good advice consistent with what others are saying …very similar to dr. oz ..check out the movie food incorporated

        • true north

          Agree, fuddle duddle.. Anybody that buys groceries should see the movie, it just might make people make smart choices about how they eat.

  • Bob

    Everything points to the clear fact that our planet is totally over-populated anyway. What would we prefer? The death of millions or Billions or the destruction of the entire human race??

    • Jeff Summerfield

      Our planet is overpopulated?? Do the math. Take 6 billion for the people, multiply by 4 square feet for each person on earth to stand on, and convert that figure to square miles. You see that EVERY person on earth will comfortably fit into less than 30 square miles. Clearly a small spot on the globe, overcrowded, no sign of it.

      • fuddle duddle

        that is 6 000 000 000 people and supposedly going up to 9 billion ..it may not seem overcrowded but there are more people alive on the earth today then have ever died in the history of humanity ..it is kind of what they call exponential growth ..the way to stop it is to turn people into western consumers and tax them to death and then they won't have so many children haha

  • Kyle

    Mark Bittman also has a great series of recipe video blogs he posts through the NY TIMES. He posts a new recipe every week. I actually subscribe to his video blog through itunes (it's free). I have to say I have never been disappointed. His Pad Thai recipe has won me much acclaim with the family.

  • Kate

    He's sounding (and looking) more like Michael Pollan all the time.

  • eunahph

    Eat more Korean and you'll definitely shed some pounds. More soups and stews, fewer cheeses and breads.

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