This post comes to Sustainable Table from my dear friend, Karissa Seltz, who is teaching for a year in Japan as part of the government’s Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program. During her time there, she has had the opportunity to plant and harvest food at several of the schools she teaches at in the tiny town [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
You may be surprised to learn the culinary potential of the pumpkin goes way beyond a can of pumpkin pie mix. Underused in American cooking, this nutritional powerhouse is revered for its leaves, seeds and roasted flesh in other countries. A member of the gourd family, pumpkins are packed with [...]

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When I think “diet”, I don’t normally think “cookies”, but according to the New York Times, a “cookie diet” indeed exists. I think I’ll stick with a good old fashioned weight-loss program of grapefruit and cabbage broth.
I knew they would find a use for all that poop! A Vermont dairy farm will be turning manure [...]

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The Global Oneness Project is exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world. Their beautiful and moving film, A Thousand Suns, tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area [...]

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This post comes from our friend Julie Negrin M.S. – Julie is a nutritionist, cooking instructor, writer and most recently, a blogger – check out her blog: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog.
I just got back from the annual Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) conference which took place in Des Moines, Iowa, or as some call [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…

When your mom’s a doctor and your dad’s a spa chef, what’s a meatless tween to do? Well in the case of then 12 year old Elyse May, she harnessed her well-rounded knowledge and wrote a teen’s meatless cookbook. Initially a junior high school project, Veggie Teens: A Cookbook and [...]

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I recently read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and was shocked. Published in 1962, it attacked the use of pesticides and read like a story that might have been written today about the detrimental effects of ____ (fill in the blank), a product that hasn’t been properly tested, but is being sold anyway. At the [...]

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Did you know that Denmark is the world’s largest exporter of pork? And on top of that, much of that pork is produced sans antibiotics! While American agribusiness has given the Danes lots of slack for their anti-antibiotic stance calling it a “failure”, the numbers prove otherwise. Check out Laura Rogers report on the Huffington [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
As we opened the October 2009 issue of Gourmet magazine, an impossibly good coupon fell into our lap. “Gourmet is having a very special white sale,” the promotional card announced, “12 issues for $15. It’s like getting 8 issues free!” We were suspicious of the enthusiasm behind the offer. “Is [...]

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Food issues are “in” right now, which is clearly illustrated by the many food related news stories front and center in the New York Times. On the cover of last Sunday’s Times, an important article about ground beef and E.coli and how it ruined one young dance instructor’s life. In a follow up article, author [...]

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