Monthly Archives: November 2010

Chefs: Five Steps to Sourcing Local Ingredients

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The buy local trend is turning out to be a great way for restaurants to stand out in the crowd. Here are some tips for restaurant chefs who want to get started sourcing local ingredients.

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Domino’s Brags About Their Real Cheese in New TV Commercial

More and more TV Commercials show national brands lauding the “realness” of their food. Could it be we are nearing a tipping point?

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How the FDA Can Use S 510 to Close Down Raw Milk Dairies

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What’s at stake for raw milk in the FDA S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act? How about everything…

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Woman Poisoned by Pesticides Speaks Out on S510

Ho'okipa Lookout means Hospitality. Corporations have Overstayed their Welcome in Hawaii.

Kimberly Usher knows first-hand the dangers of pesticides in foods, she lives in Hawaii, where corporate farms have poisoned the environment with heavy spraying. Kimberly is now crippled due to exposure to these dangerous chemicals.

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Happy Thanksgiving

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My thanksgiving for blog readers and small farms and the healthful food they provide.

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Almond Flour Shortbread Recipe

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Another gluten free treat from the personal chef to the green minded, Victoria Cortes! Yummy almond shortbread, wonderful by itself or with ice cream.

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U.S. Government Has Two Policies on Cheese: Eat It, Don’t Eat It.

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FTCLDF Board member and Attorney, Steve Bemis, ponders the duplicitous nature of our federal government’s attitudes on cheese.

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Manifesto for 21st Century Food and Farming

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British Royal, Sir Julian Rose is leading the world toward a safer, more humane food future. Read his compelling manifesto on food and farming delivered at a conference in Poland this past weekend.

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Another Reason to Eat Organic

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Are you as smart as a little sparrow? Apparently, little birds have a lot to teach us about nutrition, as this story illustrates.

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S510 Means Loss of Food as Medicine

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Leslie Goldman wants to stimulate a national conversation on food safety policy which will also protect food as medicine and farmer’s and consumer’s freedoms.

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