This is cool. My neighbor, whose dog daily tries to devour my dog, will be featured tomorrow night (May 15, 2007) on the Sundance Channel’s “Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Eat.” The neighbor, Hilary Brown, owns and operates Local Burger, which dispenses, as the name suggests (and as mentioned in this post) locally produced [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Healthy eating'
Local Burger scores national exposure
May 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthy eating, local food
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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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The cooking-convenience conundrum
April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating
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 [...]
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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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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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