The Real Organic Project is sponsoring a conference at Churchtown Dairy in Hudson, NY, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It’s on “Saving Real Organic: Anti-Trust and Food.” Tickets and information are here.
Farewell Robert Steinberg
My friend Robert Steinberg died this week after a 20-year bout with lymphoma, and I am much too sad to write about anything else. Robert, a physician whom I met briefly when he was a resident at UCSF, was already well into his illness when he gave up his medical practice to co-found Scharffen Berger chocolates with John Scharffenberger in the mid-1990s. We got reacquainted around then at a Chefs Collaborative meeting in