As you will see, I’ve changed the look of foodperson.com to make it more colorful-more appetizing, shall we say. If you have any thoughts on it, I’ll love to hear them. The look also includes a spam-protection space in the comments area. I’ve added it and another, invisible-to-you “plug-in” that allows you to post comments [...]
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Links to get you thinking
May 4th, 2007 · No Comments · General, Healthy eating
Interested in knowing more about where your food comes from? Here are a couple of links with definitely different approaches to what you, the food consumer, might want to know. At ChewsWise.com, journalist Samuel Fromartz focuses his skeptical journalist’s eye on the food industry, particularly organics. Fromartz is the author of Organic, Inc., a book [...]
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Tip: Grow your own herbs
April 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food selection, General
Any food lover knows that fresh herbs just taste better than dried ones, but the fresh ones are expensive and often require buying a lot more than you want. What to do? Grow you own. The easiest way to grow them is to take a trip to the garden center and buy little plants already [...]
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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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Home cooking feeds soul, soothes grief
April 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, General
When townspeople asked Virginia Tech students what would help them cope with the horrific aftermath of yesterday’s massacre there, students said they would like home-cooked food, according to a report I heard today on NPR. The statement surprised me for a moment, given the current college generation’s having been raised in an era heavier on [...]
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Foodperson.com progress
April 13th, 2007 · No Comments · General
I’ve been pleased at how many readers foodperson.com has received since going online two weeks ago. I’ve made assorted changes and learned a lot, including how much I don’t know about WordPress (the software behind the blog) and how to make the site function the way I’d like. But, it is functioning, so that’s a [...]
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