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Thanks to Women’s Health for including the Eat Well Guide in their list of 100 favorite websites! Other foodie sites included Chow.com, Chez Pim and Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch, groups with whom we are proud to rub elbows.  Of course, there’s more to life than food, so check out the whole list to [...]

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Among the seasonal selections at the farmers’ market this week I spied blueberries, radishes, and beets among many others—all tasty, but I was looking for something different that I hadn’t tried before. Strolling past the booths, my eye caught a box filled with bright yellowy-orange flowers–squash blossoms. They called to me to come and investigate.
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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Pick up a good book!We are in the throes of summertime and what better to do with your free time than dive into a good book. Now is the time to indulge in your own foodie reading fest- a great way to further educate yourself on food and farming issues. Whether [...]

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The search for Salmonella More than 900 people across the US (plus one in Canada) have been sickened by salmonella initially linked to tomatoes, but after a $100 million loss to the industry, food safety experts have expanded the investigation to other produce, including jalapenos, though tomatoes remain the primary suspect.
Sounds like BS(T) In response [...]

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Nothing says independence like eating outdoors (unless it’s fireworks — which are none too eco-friendly, though scientists are working on greener pyrotechnics — still best to leave them to the professionals and enjoy your local display). If your festivities are going to involve hamburgers, do be sure they aren’t part of the Kroger’s [...]

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It’s been over a month since the death of 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jiminez, who died of heat stroke while laboring in a Stockton-area vineyard that, it later turned out, provides grapes for Bronco Wine’s notoriously cheap Charles Shaw — aka Two-Buck Chuck — sold exclusively at Trader Joe’s. Maria fell into a coma [...]

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