Growers and Grocers

The Well Fed Network was lucky enough to receive an invitation to the Worlds of Healthy Flavors Retreat 2007, an invitation-only held from January 18-21 in the beautiful Napa Valley, California at the Culinary Institute of America’s Greystone campus. (I also have to note that Well Fed was the only web-based media outlet attending the […]

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. […]

The AP reports that a refrigerated trailer with $50,000 pounds worth of broccoli was recently stolen from the Chicago suburb of Villa Park.  The trailer is 48 feet long and was parked in a rented parking space when it was stolen some time between Sunday and Tuesday morning. 
The detective in charge of the case, also […]

CBS News reports that despite a rule disallowing the “USDA Organic” designation for fish, some fish is being labeled that way.  Currently, if you see seafood labeled as “organic,” it means that the fish is not from the United States and therefore may have been produced with chemicals and antibiotics aimed at keeping the fish […]

The Canadian Press reports that the United States Department of Agriculture plans to allow “older” Canadian cattle and beef products to come south again.  Canadian beef was entirely banned in May 2003, then in July 2006, cattle under 30 months were allowed to be imported.
Originally, older animals were deemed to have too high of a risk for […]

Mike Dunne of the Sacramento Bee recently profiled Suzanne Ashworth of Del Rio Botanical, a farm that grows multicolored heirloom winter squashes, including Stout Sopomas, Guatemalan Blues and Rampicantes twisting.  If you have never heard of these varieties, you are not alone. 
Dunne recognizes that many consider them to be “novelty foods.”  However, these squash varieties are “often better adapted […]

In order to help inform consumers about the healthiness of food on supermarket shelves, a New England supermarket developed a 0-to-3 star nutritional rating system for foods. According to Political Gateway, the rating system “flunks most of the foods consumers think are good for them.” A spokesperson for the supermarket said: “This is a good, […]

California is doing its best to take over the cheese market. The AP reports that with its abundant supply of milk and the nationwide demand for cheese, California could soon pass Wisconsin “to become the nation’s top cheese producer.”
In last year alone, California cheese producers created over 2.14 billion pounds of […]

The purple tomato being developed by Oregon State University doesn’t sound like a Frankenfruit. It actually sounds like a great idea. According to the AP, the purple tomato hybrid was not created entirely in a lab, but gets its roots from a wild species found in South America. Scientists took seeds from […]