From the category archives:

Food Industry

No Poison Served…

I was in my son’s high school this week and I noticed a person drinking a diet soda. I became irritated that we allow this in schools. I remember my days when I was a school teacher and teachers smoked in the school lunch room and all around the school grounds. In only 15 years, [...]

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Who is Really Feeding Our Schoolchildren?

No wonder our kids are fat!

Frozen food companies have bought and bribed in order to make it acceptable for French fries and pizza to be available in our kids’ daily lunches! This move unravels school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which limited the use of potatoes and sodium and increased whole [...]

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Long Island Cheese Squash or Fairytale Tuscan Pumpkin?

Tuscan or Long Island?

I recently ordered a bunch of pumpkins and squash as centerpieces for tables at a function I was catering. I am not one to use decorations unless it is from the garden. November can be a challenging month for garden centerpieces. I ordered delicata, acorn, dumpling and sweet pumpkin. Emily at Morning [...]

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Ambassador, Crusader, Rebel and Lunatic Farmer

Joel Salatin with one of his flock

Joel Salatin is a rebel with a cause, a lobbyist against “food laws and bureaucratic decisions for the food industry that don’t make sense.” He is one of the most influential farmers in America. He is an advocate of holistic, natural farming and a crusader of being a steward [...]

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