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Local food is not only a tasty alternative to its over-processed, over-traveled industrially-produced counterparts, but it’s also patriotic to support local farmers. As this recent Washington Post article about the campaign points out, the bulk of garlic sold in the US is now produced in China. Buying locally grown garlic would encourage farmers here to grow more of it, eventually allowing us to wean ourselves off of the foreign stuff. Perhaps more importantly, buying local supports our local economies and helps to keep American farmers, who’ve dropped by more than half since the 1930s, in business.

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
It’s important to start the week off with healthy goals, but sometimes the bustle of everyday life makes it hard to stick to good intentions. We grab a quick meal in between errands, without realizing that fast food can be riddled with unnecessary fat and calories.
Thankfully, having a Healthy Monday [...]

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Time to change kids’  lunch This week, Slow Food USA launched its Time for Lunch campaign.  They’re gathering signatures to show support for prioritizing “real food” in reauthorization of the upcoming Child Nutrition Act, which funds school lunch (and breakfast) programs nationwide. Reauthorization by Congress is slated for September and Slow Food is organizing a [...]

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Regina Weiss is a gardener and is communications director for Eat Well Guide and a number of sustainability projects.
When writer and former Mademoiselle editor Eleanor Perényi died in May at 91, her New York Times obituary noted that she used her “years of toil in her Connecticut garden as a window onto the [...]

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A few weeks ago, I made a bittersweet last trip (for awhile, anyway) back to New York to meet with the team at Eat Well.  While I was there, EW new media guru Karen Kanan Correa and I trekked down to Tribeca to visit Cate Bruce-Low, aka Tribeca Yummy Mummy.  A former chef and present [...]

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This 4th of July, let’s declare our freedom from the “pharmo-petro- chemico-military-industrial-agribusiness” food chain, exemplified by Stephen Colbert’s funny but creepy Carlyle-like Prescott Group. Give your patriotic picnics and potlucks a truly independent flavor; serve foods grown “locally, deliciously, and sustainably,” as the Food Independence Day campaign is calling on all of us to do–including [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
It’s the 4th Monday of June and, if you’re the parent of young kids, chances are your life is a shambles right now.
As the school year races to an end, you may be adjusting to a new schedule, planning a trip or a stay at home vacation, getting the kids [...]

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Monsanto according to Change.org Hot on the heels of Secretary of State Clinton’s love letter to genetically modified food technology as a solution to global hunger, Natasha Chart has a 4-part series on the subject. (1 2 3 4) Tom Philpott also takes Clinton’s science czar to task on Seed Magazine Forum and gives [...]

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This spring Chef Ted McCormack of Flag Hill Winery and Distillery in Lee, New Hampshire was interviewed by Eat Well Guide volunteer Stacey Hamblett. Stacey is pursuing a graduate degree in holistic nutrition with the hope of sharing with others her passion for healthy food and a healthy planet. Here’s her profile of Chef [...]

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England and America have historically enjoyed a “special friendship” exemplified by a friendly rivalry and a rich cultural exchange: silly sitcoms, shameless reality shows, cheery and cheesy chick lit, Hollywood’s Los Anglo-cized adaptations of Jane Austen, and so on. They’ve got Nigella Lawson; we’ve got Rachel Ray (hey, no fair! can we trade?) They’ve got [...]

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