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We’re excited to have a few new contributors here at the Green Fork, among them one LeeAnn Smith, a registered dietitian in private practice and a food and nutrition writer living in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Nutrition from James Madison University and an MA in Public Health from UCLA. Studying food and [...]

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Never mind a little melamine Never mind that the practice of adding melamine to food to create a false impression of high protein content is a gross breech of public trust. The FDA announced today that small levels of melamine are “not harmful,” unless you are a baby (Reuters). Well, tell your baby [...]

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If you aren’t yet hip to the Eat the View campaign, you should be. A non-partisan attempt to get the next president (whoever they shall be) to install an edible landscape on the White House lawn (not to be confused with the WHO Farm, another similar, also wonderful, campaign), Eat the View enjoyed a [...]

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Formula for disaster The Chinese government is investigating makers of infant formula that tested positive for melamine, the same plasticky substance involved in last year’s pet food scandal. So far, one baby has died and another 50 have been hospitalized for kidney stones. Marion Nestle, who is as freaked out as us but [...]

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We’re honored today to serve up a guest post from Jeanne Hodesh, who attended Just Food’s “Let Us Eat Local” event earlier this week. Jeane is a freelance food writer and committed locavore. She blogs regularly for Takeabite.cc, Saveur.com, and has been published in Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan. She also composes [...]

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We are seeking college interns/externs throughout the United States and Canada who are interested in food issues and would like to increase their research, writing, and communications skills by helping expand the Eat Well Guide, a free online directory of local and sustainable food sources. Eat Well Guide interns will work from our New York [...]

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I mentioned in my short take on the Slow Food Nation festival that the Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) had hinted at an agreement with Whole Foods. Well, that agreement was announced today.
Those who are familiar with Whole Foods (dubbed “Whole Paycheck” by those who consider their wares economically inaccessible [...]

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This entry was originally posted at Sustainable Table’s Daily Table blog.
Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Eat your way healthy.
Supplements promise a lot, but the best source of valuable vitamins, minerals and antioxidants is still real food. Just be sure to make balanced food choices so you meet all your nutrition needs. Eat a variety of colors! [...]

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But for some off-site tours and dinners tomorrow, Slow Food Nation has pretty much come to a close, and although I’ve heard and even voiced some constructive criticism of the event (there wasn’t a section for fresh fruits or vegetables at the sold-out spectacle that was the Taste Pavillion, for one) I think it’s fair [...]

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The gang has arrived in San Francisco, where I rubbernecked like a maniac as my taxi passed the Victory Garden en route to the hotel earlier today. The events begin in earnest tomorrow but got started tonight with the Food Bill Declaration and Severine’s Pirate Seed Swap, which we are running way late for [...]

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