It’s been a while since I cruised all of my favorite food sites on the Internet, namely because my Google Reader crapped out on me for a couple of months, displaying nothing but a blank page.

When I finally talked to the IT department about it, they simply upgraded my Internet browser and everything magically reappeared. Genius me. Of course, by then, I had about 500 Serious Eats and Slashfood entries backed up to read. How in the world those people post more than 30 entries in 24 hours’ time is beyond me.

Moving right along, here’s a snapshot of some of the entries that caught my eye:

From the New York Times yesterday, a story about how affluent locavores in big cities like San Francisco are hiring companies to plant vegetable gardens in their own backyards. The gardeners plant and tend the garden, then harvest the veggies and leave them in a neat little box on the doorstep. I was amused by the photograph of folks hanging out on the patio, fiddling with a laptop, while some overall-clad fellow slaves away in the garden.
Oh, to have that much disposable income…

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