Blog Watch: Push for Canning, Pollan's Polemic, Starbucks Getting Indier?

Canning Across America has taken cooking enthusiasts on Twitter by storm, with the efforts of a few local writers, and food business people including author Shauna James Ahern and Rebekah Denn and bloggers like semi-pro lollygagger Seattle Bon Vivant. With all the gorgeous fruit at the market at this moment, and if you've ever wanted to learn how to preserve, this site has a ton of great information as well as the ability to interact with those with tons of know how on the subject.

Kate Hopkins of Accidental Hedonist has a wonderfully defensive, if long, reply to Michael Pollan's piece from a few weeks ago in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the decline of home cooking amidst the rise of food media. Capitol Hill Seattle Blog notices that Starbucks wants to get all indie on Broadway, in the 700 Broadway building to be exact(next to Kinko's). Be on the lookout for anyone with a measuring tape snapping photos at Vivace...