Growers and Grocers

I was watching Gordon Ramsey’s F Word the other day when I was again reminded of a sad fact.  According to Ramsey, one out of three children don’t know where French fries come from.  In America, when asked where food comes from, a sizeable percentage of children answer “the supermarket” or “the store.”
As a food […]

Jeffrey Steingarten, food critic for Vogue, measures the progress of society by examining the amount of calamari we consume as a nation.  He argues that the more squid we eat, the more sophisticated we are as a nation.
Normally a fan of the man’s work, I think he misses the mark with this rating.  Short of […]

Unless you don’t follow the news, you’re probably well aware of the latest food scare - tomatoes tainted with salmonella.
The big question that has yet to be answered is how do thousands of pounds of tomatoes get tainted with salmonella, a bacteria that originates in the digestive tracts of humans, birds, and other animals? As […]

Punk Rock Cabinet de la Meridienne, Alison Nelson’s Chocolate Bar – located on the third floor atrium of Bendel’s – is the perfect respite for fair trade organic tea and single origin fair trade truffles.
After an exhibit at MoMA, a visit to the polar bears at the Central Park Zoo, or window shopping at Tiffany’s, […]

Last Friday night I found myself literally stuck in the middle of one of those conversations most people never want to be stuck in the middle of.
While waiting for a concert to begin, I introduced two of my friends, one who has spent time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula - my husband’s homeplace and one of […]

Is saying nothing the best way to market your company’s eco-image?  There’s a lot of pressure these days to be greener than thou and as owners of Rosas Farms, our company is synonymous with grass-fed organic and all that’s green, including The Organic Chef ™, and we know the challenge is there for almost every […]

It began innocently enough. In 1953, just 10 years after penicillin became widely available, Lain Macleod, the then minister of Health, told the House of Commons in England that feeding antibiotics to farm animals to make them grow faster would have “no adverse effect whatever on human beings.” Government research had, in fact, only looked […]

One thing my husband and I have been searching for in our new home is someone who sells whole sides of beef.  I think we’ve found someone, which is excellent news.  Beef from cattle raised on small farms is at least an order of magnitude better than what the grocery store carries, even those with […]

Ingredient-driven restaurants are hip!  HOORAY!  Finally we’re heading back home and just in time.  America’s homogenized pallet is starting to wake up.  Just as carpooling caught fire so has locavorism and we are beginning to learn as a country that organic is great, but knowing your farmer and knowing your food can’t be beat.
As organic farmers, we […]

Is the green movement hype or hope? If you ask anyone who invested in Bio-fuel, the answer is HYPE.  If you ask the farmers who are reaping the financial rewards of planting more corn than has ever been planted in the United States, HOPE.  What do I think?  HORRENDOUS.  
Just as the world is starting to wake […]