The gang has arrived in San Francisco, where I rubbernecked like a maniac as my taxi passed the Victory Garden en route to the hotel earlier today. The events begin in earnest tomorrow but got started tonight with the Food Bill Declaration and Severine’s Pirate Seed Swap, which we are running way late for [...]
Entries from August 2008
Hurry up and slow down
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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From the field: Artisanal Ice Cream and Sustainable Gelato
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments
This post comes to us from one of our summer interns, Charmayne Staloff. Charmayne is a graduate student in Environmental Philosophy at the University of North Texas, where she is working on a project on the Philosophy of Food. Today, she brings us a yummy report on local and sustainable-minded producers of a timeless summer [...]
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Eat Healthy Monday!
August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Eat Well Everywhere!
Labor Day weekend is upon us, which sadly means the end of summer. Not to worry! Soak up the final weekend of summertime using our latest tool, Eat Well Everywhere (EWE).
We’ve heard from many folks about how hard it is to eat well while traveling–maybe because the most convenient [...]
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The News Feed
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Irradiation = Safety? The FDA thinks irradiating spinach and other vegetables will keep us safe. Our friends at Food & Water Watch beg to differ.
Some people will buy anything Monsanto has managed to sell off their controversial rBGH division to Eli Lily for $300 million.
Not everyone’s hurting While millions suffer from the skyrocketing price of [...]
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If you’re going…to San Francisco…
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help it.
As we mentioned, we’ll be there, too, handing out print copies of our new book, Cultivating the Web, the digital version of which you can download here (pdf). And we could use some help, so we are looking for volunteers. To sweeten the pot, we are offering one free [...]
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Online Debut: Cultivating the Web
August 19th, 2008 · No Comments
We are proud to announce the debut of Eat Well’s first publication, Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement, available for download here (pdf). We’ll be distributing print copies at Slow Food Nation, which is right around the corner (where did the summer go?), so if you’ll be there too, [...]
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Eat Healthy Monday
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments
This entry was originally posted on Sustainable Table’s Daily Table blog.
Today’s Tip: Eat Tomatoes
Here in the height of summer, tomatoes are ripe, abundant, tasty and full of nutrients. There are many different versions to choose from, everything from those sweet little cherry tomatoes to the beefy beefsteak varieties. In fact, there are around 7500 varieties [...]
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The News Feed
August 15th, 2008 · No Comments
In case you missed it Earlier this week, Whole Foods ate some crow and issued a recall on ground beef. Yesterday, the USDA expanded the recall by another 160,000 pounds (up from 1.2 million).
Business as usual? In spite of an overwhelming 4 recalls in 46 days (totaling 7 million pounds of beef) Nebraska Beef, [...]
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The true cost of food (and wine): Another farmworker succumbs to the heat
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Maria de Jesus Alvarez, 63, mother of 9, who died August 2, was picking grapes for Anthony Vineyard on July 15, a day that saw temperatures as high as 111 degrees, when she fell ill and went home. Four days later, on July 19, she was taken to the hospital, where tests revealed she’d suffered [...]
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From the Field: Food Choices
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Here’s another post from Devra Gartenstein of Seattle, who takes time out from a busy schedule writing cookbooks like her upcoming Local Bounty (she also wrote The Accidental Vegan), blogging at the Quirky Gourmet and running her Patty Pan Grill (phew!) to volunteer for Eat Well. Here, she touches on some of the challenges [...]
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