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Flat world, fat world: Report from the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Symposium, part 1

By Guest • on September 23, 2009

By Nicole de Beaufort On September 21, 2009 in Minneapolis, a crowd of 300 people representing more than 30 disciplines gathered for a symposium hosted by the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute to discuss critical issues in research

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Memo to raw-milk advocates: Improve information, or get sued

By Amanda Rose • on July 20, 2009

Fifty veterinarians and others concerned with food safety gathered at a raw milk symposium last Sunday in Seattle. Sponsored by the American Veterinarian Medical Association (AVMA), “The Raw Milk Conundrum” featured speakers from nearly

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Meeting Louis Bromfield - and Wendell Berry! - at Malabar Farm

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on May 25, 2009

Here in northeastern Ohio, not only are we surrounded by acres of rich agricultural land, on which depend a mixture of big and small farms, but in every county there are hidden pockets of little-known historical significance. And in almost-neighboring Richland County, one historical attraction has appeal

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Two recaps of the 2009 Sustainable Foods Institute

By Ethicurean • on May 19, 2009

The media is the message: Sam Fromartz provides a brief recap of the 2009 Sustainable Foods Institute,a  two-day, journalists-only boot camp put on by the Monterey Bay Aquarium to, as Sam says, "communicate what goes on in the invisible oceans so that we understand them a little better. The conference

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Postcard from the Sustainable Foods Institute in Monterey

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on May 14, 2009

I'm here in Monterey for the Sustainable Foods Institute, which the Monterey Bay Aquarium (creator of the Seafood Watch pocket guide) puts on for members of

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WK Kellogg’s Food and Society 2009: Follow the foundation funding

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on April 23, 2009

I've just come back from the WK Kellogg Foundation's invitation-only Food and Society conference in San Jose, CA, where I was hanging out on the foundation's dime with about 500 other

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Eat, drink, think: San Franciscans, come play Edible Pursuit this Sunday!

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on March 13, 2009

As anyone who's opened up a magazine or a newspaper recently knows, the print publishing industry is in deep trouble. (When the New Yorker has not a single ad between the inside cover and the Table of Contents, that's kind of like walking into Chez Panisse at 7 on a Friday night and finding it half empty.)

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Winter, Shminter: Not Everything Sleeps when the Ground Freezes

By Stephanie P. • on March 2, 2009

I usually take a giant chill pill the months of January and February (ok, and maybe March too). I have never lived in a place without blizzards and tear-inducing wind chills. While that might be sad to folks who prefer equatorial breezes, I’ve generally enjoyed the cold times of the year as a season

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Gary Nabhan: Those who forget history are doomed to re-eat it

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on December 19, 2008

Above the din of the enthusiastic multitude of Green Festival attendees in San Francisco, renowned author, ethnobotanist, food preservationist, and historian

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Opening up: Notes from the Northeast Ohio Food Congress

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on November 10, 2008

When I hear or read comments that dismiss local foods as something only folks in California can do, I'm puzzled. Everywhere I go in northeast Ohio, I see farms and markets that have locally grown and produced foods for sale.

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Artists explore urban sustainability at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on November 7, 2008

"Gatherers — Fallen Fruit, Elysian Park," 2005, giclee print, photo courtesy of David Burns, Matias Viegener & Austin Young (downloaded from YBCA's press room) A

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A foraged wild mushroom feast at Les Jardins Sauvages

By Peter aka Nosher of the North • on November 1, 2008

When I was young, I hated mushrooms. At least, I thought I did, but I hadn't really ever eaten them. I was under the impression that they were slimy and gross, which was the basic opinion of my parents. The only mushrooms

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Sweet potatoes provide Kansans multiple culinary possibilities and new crop potential

By Janet • on October 23, 2008

One Kansas City-area program had lots of sweet potato plants, while another had people who know how to cook sweet-potato greens. The two got together recently and showed off the culinary possibilities to a gathering of people

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“Homegrown”: New documentary on Pasadena urban microfarm

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on October 21, 2008

Just got an email from the director of "Homegrown," what looks like a cool new documentary. It's about the Dervaes family, who run a microscopic organic farm in urban Pasadena, California. They live on

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For land’s sake: Farmland preservation in Ohio

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on October 9, 2008

My evenings and weekends lately — well, the past few months — have largely been taken up by the annual rounds of food preservation as I dry, freeze, can, pickle, and otherwise put up as much produce from this year

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