On Sunday, author, educator and nutrition expert Marion Nestle answered some questions surrounding “organic”. This is quite the loaded term these days, and can mean different things depending on who’s using it. For a big corporation, organic may mean no pesticides, but the crops could still be raised as a monoculture. Some smaller farms are [...]

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Kids and nutrition has been a very popular topic in the news. The Bancroft Elementary School students have been helping Michelle Obama in the White House organic garden, and the first lady has been very vocal about getting more healthy foods into the USDA’s Child Nutrition programs. Sites such as School Lunch Talk and [...]

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Ask a child where their food comes from and they will probably tell you “the grocery store.” For most people, adults and children alike, the grocery store is the sole point of access to food. Little thought is put into its life beyond the shelves. Vegetables don’t come from the Earth; they come from the [...]

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The name “peaches” has been attached to many things – movies, music, a wrestler, a sports announcer, a music store and various characters though time. In the Urban Dictionary under “peachy” is also the definition: a cute arse, resembling a firm, tasty and supple peach.
But we are here to talk about the fruit. Native to [...]

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Food Inc. opens tomorrow in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and I urge anyone and everyone in those areas to go see it! In fact, even if you have to take a train, a plane or an automobile, I’d say it’s worth it! Ok, maybe not a plane. But the more people who [...]

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I’m really sad and a bit embarrassed to say that I didn’t sign up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share this season! I had all sorts of reasons at the time sign-up time came along – I wasn’t the happiest with my CSA last year (the one I had the year before made it [...]

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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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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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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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Michael Pollan showed up on the Colbert Report last night to promote the release of  “In Defense of Food” in paperback. The message was the same as before: eat food, not too much, mostly plants – but with an amusing Colbert twist. See the clip below.

The Colbert Report
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Michael Pollan

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