According to a report from National Public Radio, you might be seeing less of your favorite tangelo and grapefruit this winter–and higher prices on what’s available. A bad combination of the economy, abandoned, mowed-down citrus groves, and disease have caused such concern that the USDA has gotten involved to see what can be done. Researchers are hopeful about getting the…
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Food App of the Week: Wild Food Forager
Wild Food Forager Developer: Chris Bax Cost: $0.99 Runs on: iPhone Website: www.tastethewild.co.uk With the economy still struggling to recover, food foraging continues to find new fans. Of course, knowing what is safe to consume and what will kill you is kind of important. Wild Food Forager from Taste the Wild provides a guide of 50 commonly found plants.
Eat Ginger, Shovel Snow
Yesterday (on the East Coast, anyway) we found ourselves with a whole, new fun pile of icy, crystally, icky snow-slush-ice to shovel. Boo! But according to today’s Science section of the New York Times, if we all just eat a bunch of ginger — long known for its stomach-soothing attributes — it gets rid of sore muscles, too. So get…
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Seafood Chef Rick Moonen Talks Fishy with Toque
I don’t feel as though there’s enough of an embrace from mankind to understand that we co-exist with the water and if the ocean collapses, so does man. We’re done.
From Barista to Bartender: An Interview with Laura Lindsay
Laura Lindsay must have luck on her side. The 30-year-old has seamlessly segued from barista to bartender, working first at Intelligentsia, one of Los Angeles’ hippest coffee houses and, more recently, stepping behind the bar at recently opened 1886, a shoebox-sized, cocktail-driven bar in staid Pasadena. Lindsay, who has lived all over the United States, from New Jersey to Colorado,…
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Greasy Kid Stuff No More
For the first time in a decade and a half, yesterday the USDA has announced brand, spankin’ new guidelines for school lunches, this on the tail of President Obama signing into law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act last month; and not a minute too soon. According to a press release from the government nutritional wing, the obesity rate for kids ages 6 to…
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