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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Make a (local) pizza!
It’s one of the simplest (and most fun!) ways to enjoy a collaborative meal. Recently, I had a friend in town who used to be my cooking buddy in college so we decided to relive those wonderful memories and make our own homemade pizza for dinner. My local [...]

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Bees are the new peak oil In what Rep. Dennis Cardoza, chair of the House horticulture and organic agriculture subcommittee, is calling a “full-fledged crisis,” a whopping 36 per cent of commercial hives have vanished already this year. Considering that 1/3 of our food supply depends on the little buggers for pollination, we’d call [...]

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Summer wouldn’t be the same without outdoor festivals. One of our interns, Joanna Lehrman, a recent graduate of CUNY Hunter College with a degree in Urban Planning, writes about a wonderful event put on this past weekend by The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. in Croton Point Park, along the Hudson River. Joanna’s personal interest [...]

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“Old New York…was once New Amsterdam…”
Back then, a widely diverse population of city dwellers bought their food at the market, not at the Quizno’s.
If you are in New York on Sunday, come join thousands of other foodies, farmers and activists at the New Amsterdam Market. This is the third New Amsterdam gathering so far–the [...]

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When I first heard about Stone Barns a few years ago, I thought it sounded pretty idyllic, but to be honest, it also sounded kind of fancy. “Good food,” as we like to call it, has a reputation for being expensive in general (though that rep is a little unfair–farmers market [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Buy local!
After the recent scare regarding the presence of salmonella in certain raw tomatoes circulating the US, it seems that there is no time like the present to know where your groceries hail from. Buying locally provides you with an advantage by allowing you to more easily trace the path from [...]

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A flood of bad news That devastating mid-west flooding is affecting more than corn prices–Elanor surveys the damage, including the massive contamination of Iowa’s drinking water–at the Ethicurean.
It’s final Congress overrode Bush’s veto and pushed the Farm Bill through on Wednesday.
Frozen food (prices) in Mexico In response to the skyrocketing price of food, Mexican president [...]

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Here’s another one from Gwen Schantz, who was down in my neck of the woods awhile back on her search for good food on the road. She even made a video about this lovely creamery. Enjoy!

Recently I visited Baltimore, MD, where I was hosted by my good friend and fellow natural foods enthusiast, [...]

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Ahoy! If you are in NYC this weekend, head down to Croton Point Park and check out the Clearwater Festival. It’s going on from 10am until dusk both Saturday and Sunday on the shores of the Hudson River, and highlights will include live music and singalongs, camping, boat rides, and the Clearwater Environmental [...]

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(photo courtesy of morgueFile)
When the Eat Well team headed upstate a few weeks ago, we were looking forward to getting out to some farms, meeting some farmers, learning more about their sustainable methods and eating some good food. I don’t think anybody anticipated seeing groundhog stew on the menu until the night before we [...]

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