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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The marketing world has gone crazy for local food. In an attempt to glom on to the local movement, companies like Frito-Lay (a brand owned by PepsiCo) are defining the term in the loosest way possible (see the article we are quoted in Tuesday from USA Today). What defines local food anyway? Is it produced [...]

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From our friends at Food and Water Watch…
Do you know what’s in your shopping cart? Although this may seem like a simple question, there’s more to the apples, cucumbers, peas and other fruits and vegetables you buy than meets the eye. Many Americans don’t know that they are consuming more imported fresh fruits and vegetables, [...]

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Today’s Tip: Drink tap water instead of unhealthy soft drinks and sports drinks.
The drink aisle at your local grocery store can be a very confusing place. The claim “Lite” on a soda makes the aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame-K based drinks seem healthy (those are the top three artificial sweeteners). The claim of “natural” is [...]

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I grew up with a grandmother who, on a regular basis, opened a can of food, smelled it, and determined it was rotten. Now, as an adult, I suspect she might have been overly cautious!
I continue to be rather picky and concerned about all food that ends up in my refrigerator. I never know how [...]

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