Growers and Grocers

INTRODUCTION
prag•mat•ic - Pronunciation Key: (prag-ma-tik), adj. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
Given the choice, most people and nearly every parent we meet wants to live a cleaner life. They wrestle with their food decisions and even make attempts at living an organic lifestyle.
Many take to reading online or at […]

This weekend, September 30 thru October 1, 2006, Garden of Eve Organic Farm in Riverhead, NY is hosting the 3rd Annual Garlic Festival. Festival hours are from 10am-6pm, $2 admission, kids under 6 free. The festival promises garlic inspired foods, crafts, music, theater, and just plain garlic. Admission is free if you bring a dish […]

Newscom reports that: “The two largest milk distributors in southern New England are switching to a product free of artificial growth hormones.” While the geographical limitation on that statement makes the change sound limited, it could be the start of a trend. The companies who own these distributors are major players and they […]

The Slow Food movement’s 80,000 members are busy these days. So are the bloggers who support them. The flavors, political ferment, and record attendance of 16,000 people in one weekend at Australia’s Taste of Slow Festival has been enthusiastically documented by bloggers the world over, including Mighty Foods, A Few of My Favorite […]

Al and Erin Rosas raise all grass fed beef on their certified organic cattle farm located in Marion County, Florida. The Rosas’ also own and operate a specialty and organic food store.
Erin Rosas is a medical research specialist with research concentrated in the area of the cellular and physiological reaction to growth hormones and chemicals […]

I love to bake. Cakes, cookies, pies. Chocolate Espresso Mousse is one of my special recipes for special occasions. I never had to worry about eating uncooked cookie dough, or serving mousse and cakes decorated with colorful royal icing. Until my cousin married and his wife got pregnant, I didn’t really give consuming raw eggs […]

You may not realize it as you grimly plow through the Saturday afternoon crowd at your local Safeway, but supermarkets are struggling. Superstores such as Wal-Mart and Target, specialty markets, Costco-style club stores and Internet shopping are attracting more and more customers. In fact, reports Kim Severson in Wednesday’s New York Times, traditional supermarkets stand […]

The recent news about California grown spinach, with (at last count) at least 150 people being sickened by E. Coli, and a Wisconsin woman DEAD, is unsurprising if you’ve been following trends in food distribution. Heartbreaking, yes, but unsurprising. The FDA simply does not have enough food inspectors on the ground to prevent things like […]

I’m a new member of the Cheese Club at Melbourne’s Richmond Hill Café & Larder. This is serious business. The cheese room at this upscale institution run by Australian culinary doyenne Stephanie Alexander is a climate-controlled laboratory where giant wheels of cheese are stored, aged, ripened, and eventually displayed in the standing-room-only, glass-walled parlor that […]

In the San Francisco Chronicle today, Carol Ness talks about the growing trend of Americans buying their meat directly from ranchers now, or “farmers who raise meat animals the old-fashioned way, on grassy pastureland.”
Ranchers and farmers are starting to see a swell of new customers in search of good meat that is “humanely raised by […]