Civil Eats – how did this wonderful, simple-looking, but powerfully-voiced blog get past me? As I’m poking around and stumbling on interesting and informative post after post, I think that maybe it is the grown-up and stand-on-its-own version of the blog that started with the Slow Food Nation event last year? Maybe I’m just out [...]

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Today’s tip: Get creative – try a new recipe!
Cooking and eating at home are a guaranteed way to feed yourself and your family healthier food (for your body and for the planet). You know where the ingredients are coming from (hopefully a farmers market or healthy store- a food coop or the organic section in [...]

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If we eat organic food and go out of our way to buy sustainable products for our health and the health of the planet, shouldn’t the pet food we buy be organic too? Not to mention, if we are buying unsustainable, non-organic products for our cats and dogs, it’s directly supporting factory farms, the industry [...]

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Bill Niman has recently been named the new Sustainable Agriculture Advisor for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Bill Niman is the founder of Niman Ranch (but he is no longer a part of the business). Niman Ranch has always had high standards for raising their animals and the recognition of many restaurants and chefs, including Alice Waters. [...]

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The internet so easily sucks me in… all these beautiful pictures of food and interesting recipes, articles, cookbooks, videos about cooking and more, more, more. I would like to share my internet adventure that lead to some delicious looking beans being cooked on a video on YouTube.
First, I received a weekly newsletter from Gourmet. They [...]

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Today’s tip is from the Green Fork blog, from our friends at the Eat Well Guide.
Today’s tip: Make a New Years resolution for you and the planet (yes you can do both!)
As we welcome in 2009, the opportunity to reevaluate and set goals to improve our lives (and especially our health) presents itself. Luckily, there [...]

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It’s exciting when we get calls to help with articles about sustainable food. We get the opportunity to share our knowledge and hopefully to attract new people to the sustainable food & agriculture movement. These two recent articles both quote Diane Hatz, Founder of Sustainable Table. Way to go Diane!
Continental Magazine (the inflight magazine for [...]

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Happy 2009 from all of us at Sustainable Table.
We are looking forward to a very sustainable year!

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