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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Food banks need bailouts, too
October 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments
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News Feed
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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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History of a presidential lawn: A new Eat the View video
September 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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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Just a Home Grown Affair — Let Us Eat Local
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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Join Eat Well Guide’s Field Team: Our National Internship/Externship Program
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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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Whole Foods comes around on tomatoes
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
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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Eat Healthy Monday!
September 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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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I do declare: Life in the Slow Lane
September 1st, 2008 · No Comments
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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Hurry up and slow down
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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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