We’ve given you a few tips on how to stretch your food dollars (see Shop Sustainable – Money). This week, we’ll help you determine which local sustainable and/or organic foods you can incorporate into your food budget.
There’s no doubt about it – organic and sustainable food is often more expensive than , industrially raised [...]

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Forefront in the news these last few days has been President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. From what I can tell, she seems like a fair, honest judge who avoids flash and goes for comprehensive, rational arguments. But what I really want to know is what she is going to [...]

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“Food, Inc.” may well be the most important, perspective-altering documentary you’ll ever digest. Informed by author/activists Eric Schlosser (“Fast Food Nation”) and Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”), documentarian Robert Kenner exposes the evolution of food production from the venerable family farm to rapacious big agri-business.
To paraphrase Participant Media, the film’s producer, our food supply is [...]

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At various points during this series, I’ll post about issues surrounding food and agriculture to offer a more complete picture of the problems (and solutions) related to our current food system. Today, we’re going to talk about hormones.
We all have hormones – humans and all other animals. These chemicals are produced naturally in our [...]

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This post is by our friend Julie Negrin M.S. Julie is a nutritionist, cooking instructor, writer and most recently, a blogger – check it out: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog.
A few years ago, I was chatting with my Uncle Raymond, the youngest brother of my Papoo Albert (my grandpa) about how they ate as [...]

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Last year New York spent $6.1 billion on obesity related health problems, the second highest expenditure in the nation. Diabetes rates in the United States have doubled in the last 10 years. While a small percentage of obesity is caused by genetics or health problems such as thyroid or hormonal disorders, most results from unhealthy [...]

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Here at Sustainable Table, we advocate buying local food from local farmers, with hundreds of articles and blog posts attesting to the fact that nearly everything you need can be found within a 500-mile range. There is, however, one very important product that we at the office cannot live without and that cannot be grown [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
“If we went a day without meat we would rediscover vegetables!” These are the words of best-selling author and food activist, Michael Pollan, on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show.
Pollan has lately been championing the virtues of going meatless. On the Earth Day episode of the Oprah Show, he said the easiest [...]

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We’ve talked about finding sustainable food and how to find time to cook in previous posts. This week, we’re going to talk about money. Some sustainable food advocates seem to think we all have a lot of money and can eat organic sustainable food all the time. But, for most of us, [...]

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Spring is finally upon us. Green leaves adorn the trees, birds are chirping away, and most importantly, local asparagus has arrived in the markets! For many chefs and home cooks alike, asparagus is the true harbinger of spring. At other times of the year it is gray/brown, woody in flavor, and imported from far away. [...]

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