We’re excited to have a few new contributors here at the Green Fork, among them one LeeAnn Smith, a registered dietitian in private practice and a food and nutrition writer living in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Nutrition from James Madison University and an MA in Public Health from UCLA. Studying food and [...]
Entries from October 2008
Food banks need bailouts, too
October 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments
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Celebrating Fall (and Food!): Stone Barns 5th Annual Harvest Fest
October 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Last weekend, Eat Well welcomed the changing of the seasons with the fifth annual Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture Harvest Fest in Pocantico Hills, NY. The leaves in the Hudson Valley were just beginning to change color and autumn greeted us with a crisp and cool morning.
Throughout the day there were a variety [...]
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Eat Healthy Monday!
October 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Know your sweets.
Recently, the Corn Refiner’s Association released a series of vignettes promoting the consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). These misleading advertisements are designed to confuse you, the consumer, into thinking that HFCS poses no adverse health risks. Not surprisingly, they were created soon after the FDA pronounced [...]
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News Feed
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Never mind a little melamine Never mind that the practice of adding melamine to food to create a false impression of high protein content is a gross breech of public trust. The FDA announced today that small levels of melamine are “not harmful,” unless you are a baby (Reuters). Well, tell your baby [...]
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Food & Farming Events: NY-area Harvest Festivals
October 1st, 2008 · No Comments
This post was written by the multi-talented “graphic designer and sometimes writer” Katie Sweetman, who works at GRACE and has designed much of what you see on this very web page. She also provided the artistic stylings for Eat Well’s recently released publication, Cultivating the Web (pdf) and is currently working on the Fall [...]
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