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Entries from August 2008

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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