Growers and Grocers

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 […]

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 […]

The most useful tool an eco fashionista in New York City has is the link to Lucy’s Greenmarket Report.  Four days a week in the summer and every Saturday in the winter, Lucy awakes before dawn and in all weather, walks the two blocks from her apartment to the Union Square Greenmarket. There she buys […]

In the daily effort to “go green,” it’s always nice to receive a little help, and this time it comes via Heather Stephenson and Jennifer Boulden, the fabulous duo behind Ideal Bite. Ideal Bite is an eco-living web site that e-mails daily tips to their 100,000 readers … everything from making organic gin martinis […]

The PB&J Campaign lists some interesting and unexpected benefits of eating an ordinary PB&J over other lunch foods. For example, did you know that eating a PB&J instead of a hamburger will save 280 gallons of water? Neither did I. Do check them out, and don’t miss their blog.

WellFed is looking for an Editor for Growers and Grocers. Think you’ve got the right stuff? E-mail cate at info@wellfed.net for consideration.

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 […]

Wow! A new study shows that the body processes high-fructose corn syrup the same way it processes regular table sugar!
Pepsi must be happy, especially since they helped fund the research. You don’t think that biased the results, do you? If you want a thorough dissection of this sham of a study, check out Connie’s analysis […]

Last night at a Heritage Foods dinner, I met one of the contributors to The Ethicurean, a blog devoted to ethical eating. Growers and Grocers readers will probably enjoy the content, which includes digests of news items and longer pieces that detail visits to farms and producers.

The ever-vigilant Parke Wilde at the U.S. Food Policy blog has spotted an unusual report from a subdepartment of the USDA. The report puts forth the common wisdom that Americans eat too many solid fats, alcohol, and added sugars (SoFAAs).
So what? The USDA is notoriously squeamish about telling Americans to eat less of anything. Beef […]