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Entries from August 2009

Healthy Monday: The High Cost of Cheap Food

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

From our friends at Healthy Monday…
America has a well-earned reputation for serving up large quantities of cheap, fast food. Such meals may seem like a bargain on the surface, but a closer look shows us that these highly processed, industrialized food products have a multitude of hidden expenses. Brian Walsh, a health and science writer [...]

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News Feed

August 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Shake your stinger Yale senior Max Lanman and his four brothers have put out an adorable rap video in support of honey bees, appropriately named “Do the Honey Bee.”  Here’s hoping they spark a new dance craze.
Food Firms Fret Over Potential Impact of Climate Bill Multinational food companies like Cargill, General Mills and Tyson are [...]

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A Julia Child for the 21st Century: Meet Lorna Sass

August 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Nora Ephron’s effervescent Julie & Julia has evidently sparked a mad dash to snap up Child’s epic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Butter’s back, and margarine’s been marginalized. Three cheers for real food! After all, as Joan Gussow says, “I trust cows more than chemists.”
Any film (or book) that gets Americans psyched about cooking [...]

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Healthy Monday: Go Flexitarian for Your Health

August 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments

From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian, considered herself a vegetarian. Her diet consisted almost entirely of plant-based foods, but she didn’t want to deprive herself of the occasional hamburger at a back yard barbeque or her favorite family recipes. Rather than remain a “closet meat-eater”, Dawn redefined her habits. She [...]

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News Feed

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Obama Loves Local At last Thursday’s interactive health care strategy meeting, the President pointed out the link between good food and health, going so far as to call for a farmers’ market outside the White House.

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