Entries from August 2007
Site resolves the safe-fish quandry
Oceans Alive website helps identify best fish to eat and redeems my Salade Nicoise by pointing me to healthier and sustainably caught yellowfin tuna.
Categories: Local food · Food selection · Environment · Food preparation
Home canning probably won’t kill you
Yes, you should follow safety-tested recipes when you’re doing home canning, but don’t let novice canners’ paranoia about botulism discourage you trying this time-honored food preservation method.
Yes, there’s an outside chance you could poison yourself and your loved ones, but let’s put things in perspective.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a total of […]
Categories: Local food · Food preparation
We’re fat and growing
The Trust for America’s Health today released its annual report on obesity, and, no surprise, we learn Americans are fat and getting fatter. At that link, you can read the news release or the entire report issued by the trust, a nonpartisan nonprofit group, including state by state information. I can report, consequently, that Kansas […]
Categories: Farm Bill · Research · General · Food selection
‘Go Organic!’ crowd bodes well for organic future
The most interesting thing at the “Go Organic!” movie night last week was in the hall, not on the screen.
Some 200-300 people (by my estimate) paid $5 to see movies about organic food production and sample the goods supplied by Local Burger last Thursday, August 23, 2007, at Liberty Hall, the old opera house now […]
Categories: Local food · Environment · Healthy eating