Growers and Grocers

This is a sad report for those of us who love green. Aside from a recent spinach recall, there is a new one involving lettuce here in the US. The Nunes Company has found E Coli in its irrigation system. While clearly bad for Nunes, this is not a good sign for […]

Lawrence Woodward, the former head of the organic watchdog group The Soil Association, has alerted one of Britain’s major newspapers that “supermarkets are putting pressure on organic food watchdogs to lower standards so they can fully exploit a billion-pound industry which is growing by 30% a year.”
Sandra Laville and John Vidal discuss the accusations in […]

Just as the FDA has said that spinach is safe again, they are warning consumers to avoid certain Bolthouse Farms carrot juice packages. A similar warning has been issued in Canada. The farms have issued a voluntary recall on the products in the meantime.
The product from Bolthouse Farms of Bakersfield, Calif., was identified by the […]

Kendle Bryan is an attorney living and practicing law in Alexandria, Virginia. Growing up in a family full of traditions, but none of them culinary, he began his adventures in cooking not at the apron strings of his mother or grandmother, but beside his wife. Since then, he’s taken to cooking with the intensity that […]

In her last post on the Well Fed Network, Sheryl Kirby made a comment that caught my eye. She said: “I’ve discovered that the ‘30-minute meal’ crowd really don’t [sic] want to know where their food comes from, and that’s so incredibly disheartening to me that it makes me want to cry.” As a member […]

Here in France, I always buy my tomatoes in season, never letting myself be tempted by a pale hothouse variety in Winter; so I’m not surprised to learn that heirloom tomatoes are a hit in the USA.
“Heirloom tomatoes with names like Marcel Stripe and Black Krim have been the late summer favorites of Northern California’s […]

In 2007, should we keep the Farm Bill as it stands, or revise it? This will be the focal point in the debate about the policy for our food supply, which will be in place until 2012. What does your political representative think about the Farm Bill? You should find out.
As predicted last month, many […]

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