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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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