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With 25 teams of chefs and farmers from the Ottawa region, Canadian Organic Growers’ 5th annual Feast of Fields hosted this tremendous gastronomical delight along the Rideau River in Vincent Massey Park. In two quick hours of meeting farmer and chef teams from the region and sampling their creations, guests tasted some of the best the Ottawa Valley has to offer.

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In Southern California (where I live) and throughout most of North America, beets are an ideal winter vegetable. Chilly and wet days have crept up on us these last few weeks in typically-sunny Los Angeles, but the farmers markets and produce stands have been well stocked all season with these beautiful garnet and golden root [...]

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Oregon’s Statesman Journal reported earlier this month about a guy who abandoned a year-long effort to eat only local food. After 8 months of sticking to the diet, he bought a banana.
Justin Rothboeck told the paper that while sticking to the regimen, he’d felt he was violating the very ideals that locavores espouse, spewing carbon [...]

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Inquiring minds What change will an Obama administration bring to food? Who will he pick for Secretary of Ag? Sam Fromartz, Steph Larson, Bonnie Powell and Tom Philpott have all contributed to the debate — we can hardly keep up.
Turkey shot What was Sarah Palin doing shooting that interview in front of a [...]

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Sink your teeth into this NYTimes Magazine’s food issue includes features on some of our favorite food fighters, including Severine von Tscharner Fleming and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, as well as a hearty (9 page!) open letter to the next president, calling for a solar-powered food system, from Michael Pollan.
Hard times call for old-timey [...]

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Among the strikingly, plump and colorful heirloom varieties of tomato at the farmers’ market, you may have also spotted a petite husked relative, the tomatillo, or husk tomato. At first glance, this smaller cousin resembles a little paper lantern, but peel away that outer husk to reveal a shiny, firm, slightly sticky, brilliant green fruit. [...]

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Time is maybe not on our side Time magazine, who last year presented a piece on “local vs. organic,” as if the two were mutually exclusive, just printed a piece in response to the “more inclusive” Slow Food unveiled at last weekend’s Slow Food Nation, entitled “Can Slow Food Feed the World?” Sounds like [...]

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Among the seasonal selections at the farmers’ market this week I spied blueberries, radishes, and beets among many others—all tasty, but I was looking for something different that I hadn’t tried before. Strolling past the booths, my eye caught a box filled with bright yellowy-orange flowers–squash blossoms. They called to me to come and investigate.
I’ve [...]

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Ahoy! If you are in NYC this weekend, head down to Croton Point Park and check out the Clearwater Festival. It’s going on from 10am until dusk both Saturday and Sunday on the shores of the Hudson River, and highlights will include live music and singalongs, camping, boat rides, and the Clearwater Environmental [...]

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(photo courtesy of morgueFile)
When the Eat Well team headed upstate a few weeks ago, we were looking forward to getting out to some farms, meeting some farmers, learning more about their sustainable methods and eating some good food. I don’t think anybody anticipated seeing groundhog stew on the menu until the night before we [...]

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