While I adore produce, and especially the locally grown variety, people hoping to improve Americans’ diets seem largely to ignore that lots of people don’t cook much any more. And until we do something about that, all the calls for more fruits and vegetables and more locally produced food are going to make only an [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Food selection'
The cooking-convenience conundrum
April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating
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Safe food supply under siege
April 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, Food selection, General
In the recent past, “food safety” meant taking fairly simple steps-washing hands, washing food, keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Nowadays, though, we’re hearing more and more about food that can’t be made safe by these steps. Congress has finally gotten into the act. To quote from a Reuters report on contaminated food [...]
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Basic recipes lay the foundation
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking for one, Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating
When I signed up for the Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance’s subscription produce program eleven years ago, I was enthusiastic about eating locally grown, organic (almost always) produce. I discovered, though, that I needed to expand the ways in which I typically used produce in the kitchen if I had any hope of using all the [...]
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Eating local goes mainstream
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Environment, Food selection, local food
The trend of eating locally produced food seems to have begun somewhere around 2000, and its appearance on the cover of Time magazine last month as “Eating Better Than Organic” makes clear that the concept has gone mainstream. Although most of us can’t eat like a Californian when basing our diet on local foods, we [...]
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Spring is back; bring on the greens
April 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating
Spring is here, and so are tender young greens. Let us forget for the moment that regional apples and peaches won’t materialize in the fall, and citrus prices will soar, and let us focus instead on what’s close at hand: beautiful, delectable greens that offer a wide range of flavors and textures. The Food Thesaurus [...]
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Healthiest menu picks aren’t obvious
April 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, Healthy eating
If you think it’s hard to choose the healthiest or lowest-calorie item on a restaurant menut, you are right. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy released a poll today that found more than two-thirds of people can’t identify the healthiest options in a quiz featuring popular chain restaurants’ food. I rarely if ever eat [...]
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