Growers and Grocers

Originally posted on Cook Smarter by Al Rosas.
Tips For Cooking Grass Fed Meats
I’ve been telling people grass is good for years. As The Organic Chef and an organic grass fed beef farmer, it’s only natural that I’ve heard just about everything a person could tell me about grass fed beef.Here I’ve chosen three “myths” about […]

Photo credit: Soybean photo is from the USDA’s ARS Image Gallery.
The January 2007 National Geographic magazine has a thought-provoking story about one of the most intense pressures on the Amazon rainforest: large-scale industrial agriculture. Last of the Amazon visits the lands around Brazil’s BR-163 road (the “soy highway”) and finds a region in […]

Budget Travel Magazine’s Trendspotting column recently featured news on what’s in store for travelers’ diets this year. Sean O’Neill reports that “[a] slew of hotels, cruise ships, and theme parks are banning trans fats–partially hydrogenated oils believed to escalate the risk of heart attacks and strokes–from their restaurants.” Disney was one of the […]

Well, it’s not really an Earthbound Farm cookbook because publishers wanted a personality to attach to the cookbook instead of corporation.  Brenda Moore of the Monterey Herald interviewed the personality they picked: Myra Goodman. She originally pitched the idea of a cookbook focused on Earthbound Farm, which she founded with her husband, and its organic food. […]

What’s really going on?   Just about everyone has something to say about how “mature” our children are.   They’ve never been older at a younger age.  Along with that comes a whole host of new psychosocial problems that face our Nation’s children.  Too much sexual attention too soon, problems adjusting, problems in school, body image issues […]

I first discovered yuzu (C. junos, or C. ichangensis X C. reticulata var. austera) when my brother brought me a jar of yuzu marmalade from Japan. Yuzu is the Japanese word for the fruit; it’s known as yuja in Korean. This round Asian citrus has a distinctive flavor that is somewhere between lemon and orange. […]

The FDA has just announced that they consider the meat and milk from cloned animals safe for human consumption, and these products could be on supermarket shelves sometime in the not too distant future. 
Despite calls for labeling by consumer, food safety, and animal rights groups, the FDA would likely not support such a move, as such labeling could […]

One of our very hard working writers has taken the time to make live links for all our FBA nominees to make your voting much easier. I realize that the absence of hyperlinks has been an issue with the polls, but I was not able to find a poll that provided the IP blocking security […]

The FDA has tentatively declared that meat and milk from cloned animals is safe (FDA release, NY Times article in the SF Chronicle, Washington Post article). A few commentators (The Accidental Hedonist and Life Begins at 30, for example) have attacked the FDA’s initial position to not require labels on products deriving from cloned animals. […]