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Published: May 14, 2008

It's Like Cirque du Soleil Up in this Piece

Just wanted to thank you for the amazing Farmers Market Guide front cover story ["It Came From The Earth!" Tami Fertig, May 8, 2008] — wow! Our entire office is doing backflips. The pictures are gorgeous and the piece is so well-written.The City Paper's support of the local food movement has been outstanding and critical to our success.

John Weidman, The Food Trust
Via e-mail

I'd like to commend the City Paper for doing the kind of neighborhood story that both The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News just about eschew these days. I'm talking about Tami Fertig's exhaustive, comprehensive report on the city's assorted farmers markets. Such stories make Philly seem much closer as a community. We have a terrific farmers market in Haddonfield where my family lives — one of many in South Jersey. I'm looking forward to the day when City Paper explores some of the fruit-and-produce venues outside the city. Thanks for listening. Keep up the great work!

Michele Creighton
Haddonfield

Mmm, the pasta sounds good [Food, "By Georges!" Trey Popp, May 8, 2008]. But doesn't Le Bec-Fin still serve foie gras? It would be nice if Perrier would bring the WHOLE restaurant into the 21st century. I won't be dining there while they serve foie gras.

Parker
via citypaper.net

While I think your comment "Retired military brass, most of whom maintain hidden-to-viewers business relationships with defense contractors" is an unfair blanket statement [Slant, "Slam Bunting," Nathaniel Popkin, May 8, 2008], you make a good point about the paranoia that trickles down from the Pentagon to the very mundane facets of our everyday lives. I wish the jokers at Independence Mall would get the memo about the bunting and bike stands. Beyond the paranoia though, I think people have a morbid fascination with the possibility of terrorism. Seeing these "precautions" makes Philadelphians and those in charge feel like we're just as important as the big boys. Americans have been bred to crave this constant fear since the Cold War, the constant excitement — sick as it may be — that something might happen at any moment, anywhere, even in Philadelphia.

"Philatonian"
Via citypaper.net

Hummus is Arabic. Israel is trying to steal Arabic food [Cover Story, "Desert Harvest," Pervaiz Shallwani, May 1, 2008] and claim it as their own, just like they are stealing Palestine.

"CY"
Via citypaper.net

City Paper responds: Cy, thanks so much for your attentive reading of the article. Especially the part about how chef Michael Solomonov's idea of Israeli cuisine incorporates elements of all cultures living in Israel. But hey, I guess when you've got an agenda to promote, you can't sweat the details.

Back in the day, as cops we didn't have EMS [News, "Heart of the Problem," Mike Newall, Nov. 15, 2007]. If a cop came upon an injured person, either a wagon or a car could have you at a hospital within three minutes. Now I see cops standin' around waitin' fer an EMS unit to arrive. If I need emergency treatment, it's, "Officer, strap my ass on the hood o' yer patrol car and get me to a hospital!"

Ron Stokes
Via citypaper.net

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