Join Louisa Shafia, author of Lucid Food, and the non-profit Just Food for a book release party at Jimmy’s No. 43 on Thursday, January 14th from 6:30 to 9:00.  The party will feature tasty recipes from the book, great company and all proceeds benefit Just Food. Click here for more info.
At first glance, Luisa [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
A healthy leap for mankind! Compass Group, the world’s largest food service company, says go meatless one day a week in 8,500 U.S. corporate and academic cafeterias! Its brand new “Be a Flexitarian” initiative is set to launch this year with a tag line that says it all: “It’s simple. [...]

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This post comes from Kerry Trueman at the Green Fork blog:
Will 2010 be the year that real food triumphs over “edible foodlike substances?” I don’t want to get overly optimistic, but real food certainly had a good first week, at least on cable TV.
On Monday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart kicked off the new [...]

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It’s January 7th, and you’re probably sick of Top Tens, but I promise, it’s a good one. Running the gamut from hunger and food safety to salt and GMOs, Marion Nestle outlines the 10 hottest food and nutrition issues of 2010.
If you haven’t seen footage of a fainting goat, you’re missing out. Check one out [...]

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This post comes from our friend Peter Hanlon, Outreach Associate for Network for New Energy Choices, a program of GRACE.

As 2009 drew to a close, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) quietly issued a decision that will dramatically decrease the destruction of fish within Long Island’s south shore estuary.  Tucked into the [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
2009 was a landmark year for health reform, nutrition education and preventative medicine. Take the lessons of the past year to heart and have a healthy 2010! Here are our tips for better health in the year to come and the events that brought us here:
1- Recommit to a Healthy [...]

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