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10 Fruit Cocktails Made With Summer's Tastiest Ingredients
Summer's harvest is hitting shelves everywhere -- toast the heatwave continuing across much of the U.S. with a chilled fruit cocktail made with local wine, organic liquor and Champagne, and the best fruits, berries, and herbs the season has to offer. It
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Zero Food Scraps Cuisine from Italy Turns Pea Pods into Delicious Finger Food
Image Credit: Lisa Casali Lisa Casali is an environmental risk expert by day, and an eco-food blogger by night. Her passion for cooking got her to think about all the stuff that usually doesn't enter the recipe, such as the outer leaves of artichokes,
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Drink to the Greening of Ontario Wineries
In the past decade a whole region with new Ontario wineries has sprung up around Beamsville, near Niagara Falls. This was formerly a rich fruit growing area, but the peach and cherry orchards are disappearing as the
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Not Icky At All; the Happy Pig Farm
If shrimp can be happy on a farm, why not pigs? For all the weekday vegetarians and omnivores out there, here is a way to obtain sausages, chorizos and bacon in a friendly way. First of all, plenty of indoor and outdoor space
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7 Ridiculously Overpriced Foods (and 7 Better Ways to Blow Your Money)
Restaurants looking for some quick press can follow this tried and true formula: Take a simple dish (candy, a hamburger, soup); add some crazy valuable ingredients (gold, truffles, crystal); and market it as "The
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Apples Beat Out Celery As Most Contaminated Produce
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its 2011 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. The seventh edition of the guide is a summary of data compiled from US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food
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Sarah Rich on Local Food and Disruptive Technology (Podcast)
Sarah Rich is a former senior editor at Dwell magazine, the creator of Longshot Magazine, and the co-author of the WorldChanging book. Sarah's journalistic obsession pivots around design, urban agriculture, technology, and new media. She tells
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Tablas Creek: Bringing a Rhône Revolution to California's Central Coast
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Tablas Creek is a 120-acre vineyard situated just twelve miles from the Pacific Ocean, on the westside of Paso Robles, California (just Paso to the locals). The vineyard focuses on Rhône-based blends common to the centuries-old
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7 Ways Gardening is Back En Vogue
If you scoff and think growing your own food may sound just a bit too "Little House on the Prairie" for your liking, well, you might be missing a major Paris Hilton-worthy trend (in addition to all of the other
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Organic Trade Association Ripe for Change
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) was hit with accusations of corruption last week in a short documentary released by an anonymous group calling themselves Organic Spies. The OTA has
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Bouquet Garni Recipes Inspired by a 1st Century Roman Herb Garden
Since every home had a kitchen garden in ancient Rome, it's a tradition worth keeping over the centuries. So when given the chance to pick sprigs from
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Real Food Festival Delivers the Real Thing from Small Producers
The Real Food Festival is a chance to meet the small, artisanal producers of some of the food that we love to buy. They are the little guys who are trying to create a revolution in packaged food.
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Robert Hall: Large-Scale Winery Helps Set Sustainability Standard
Located in the heart of Paso Robles wine country, just east off of Highway 46, is the Robert Hall estate. Started in 1995, the winery produces some of California's most popular wines. In fact, last year Hall
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Biopesticides, Farm Worker Pensions, School Salad Bars and Farm Camps Win NRDC Awards
Fungi to fight plant pests? Agri-biz says it can't be done. Healthy school lunches? Superintendents claim it's too costly and kids won't eat vegetables. Health insurance and
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Functional Chocolates for Basket Cases
With Easter comes egg hunts, peeps and chocolate bunnies. It's a sugar fest. So how can we indulge in bonbons and reap some health benefits? Studies show that cocoa
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Halter Ranch: Ronald Reagan Hangout Becomes Sustainably-Certified Winery
Planted just ten miles from Paso Robles' famed Highway 46 wine route, Halter Ranch is a sustainable
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Does Organic Food Need a Marketing Campaign?
I was doing some research recently on the organic industry for a trade publication, and an issue that was raised repeatedly was the impact that "natural" products have had on sales of organic brands.
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Toast Your Health With These Five Organic Drinks
Among all the "natural" energy drinks, chill-out beverages, coconut waters, probiotic kefir shooters, alternative milks, and superfruit juices at the recent Natural Products Expo, there were some
