This post was written by San Diego-based Joyce Chai, who joined the Eat Well Guide Field Team this past September as an extern. She is currently a junior at the University of California, San Diego where she studies Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution.
Though I have met quite a few farmers and even visited a few [...]
Entries Tagged as 'from the field'
Dispatch from California: Spotlight on Barry Koral’s Tropical Fruit Farm
January 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: from the field · green fork dispatch · local spotlight
Local Food Inspiration, from Abroad
December 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This post is from Tabitha Shannnon, an Eat Well Guide extern studying at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she’s majoring in French and planning to study Public Health and Nutrition in graduate school. Whether it’s the infinite varieties of mangoes in the Amazon basin of Peru, lobster straight from the boat in Maine, glorious [...]
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Happy Hams: A Dispatch from Caw Caw Creek
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is located near St. Matthews, SC, in the Edisto River watershed. The 90 acre farm is a mix of hardwoods and fields, in the sparsely inhabited and beautiful Calhoun County. We chatted with proprietor Emile DeFelice whose mission is to provide you the most delicious pork you have ever tasted [...]
Tags: farms · food and tradition · from the field · green fork dispatch
Stemming the tide (of food waste)
October 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
There’s been a lot of talk about food waste in the media lately. Speaking to that issue from inside the food industry, today we have another one from Devra Gartenstein, aka the Quirky Gourmet, owner of Seattle’s Patty Pan Grill and author of The Accidental Vegan and the soon-to-be-released Local Bounty.
Anyone who has worked in [...]
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What’s Fair Got to do with the Price of Green Tomatoes?
October 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As the world watches the stock markets, nobody, but nobody wants to hear about paying more for anything. But one group is moving ahead with a campaign to pressure corporations to pay a little more (a penny a pound, to be exact) for tomatoes. And they’re winning.
Before I go on, think back about [...]
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From the field: Artisanal Ice Cream and Sustainable Gelato
August 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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