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a party with a purpose | Print |  E-mail
Written by Matt Kanner   
Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Taste of the Nation sets fundraising record in fight to end childhood hunger

When Bill Shore and his wife Debbie founded Share Our Strength in 1984, they knew success would hinge on their steadfast belief that everyone is capable of making a difference in the fight to end childhood hunger. 

Twenty-five years later, people around the nation continue to reaffirm that belief—including the 1,000 guests gathered on the lawn of Strawbery Banke Museum on the evening of June 24. The 15th annual Taste of the Nation Portsmouth raised more than $115,000 for the fight against hunger, a new record.

Chefs from 50-plus local restaurants prepared their finest delicacies, and 25 area brewers and wineries offered beverages. Diners assembled under a gigantic white tent and navigated rows of tables serving everything from Jumpin’ Jay’s raw oysters to The Press Room’s lobster stew to Fresh Local’s hotdog sliders. When everyone was sated, guests hit the dance floor and grooved to live music from Boston’s Soul City.
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egg wrap - Ceres Bakery | Print |  E-mail
Written by staff   
Thursday, 25 June 2009

The Ceres Bakery egg wrap is the finest kind of fast food: fresh, delicious, and made from real stuff by real people. It changes from day to day, sometimes with more mushrooms, or broccoli, or red peppers, and some optional meats as well, but the heavenly simplicity of it is unwavering—eggy, cheesy goodness all wrapped up in a little breakfast football. Grab it and go long!

It may, in fact, be our ideal food.  It has no bones or gristle or other inedible parts; it’s soft, so you can eat it even if you don’t have teeth or are too lazy to eat chewy foods; it’s portable, so you can eat it as you walk; and to top it off, it has a very high cheese-to-mass ratio.
Breakfast-on-the-go, thy name is egg wrap!

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what's beyond local food? | Print |  E-mail
Written by Twilight Greenway   
Thursday, 25 June 2009

Lisa Hamilton finds western dairymen, ranchers and grain farmers bucking the trend to grow big 

When northern California author and photographer Lisa Hamilton set out to write “Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness,” she admits she had a “Capital ‘M’ Message” in mind. After spending several years getting to know the three farmers she profiles in the book—a dairyman from rural Texas, a grain farmer from rural North Dakota, and a rancher from rural New Mexico—she says she decided to “quiet myself and let their stories take over.” What emerged is an intimate look at the lives of three farming families that remain amidst a rising tide of efficient, faceless food production.

How did you choose these farmers?

People have been surprised that there’s no one from California in the book; that was a conscious decision. These are farmers and ranchers working outside the support of urban areas and therefore outside of active food communities. They represent a larger group of people whose voices are virtually never heard. Yet they’re making important contributions to the food system, not only in terms of calories, but in terms of innovation and their role in holding rural communities together.
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toasted corn | Print |  E-mail
Written by staff   
Wednesday, 17 June 2009

(available in bulk at healthy-food stores near you)

O toasted corn! How have we lived so long and never known your delights? Salty, corny, delicious, how can we eat just one double-fistful? How can we stop at one scooper’s worth? One bin? Nay, we cannot!

Be warned, though: although toasted corn is made of all-natural ingredients like corn and salt, we can’t say for sure that it is good for you, because it is also the loudest snack we have ever encountered! We are not kidding when we say that when we chew toasted corn, we cannot hear ourselves think—seriously, we at the Small Foods Laboratory have frequently had to stop chewing our toasted corn in order to finish a thought. The detonation from each crunch goes directly into the skull and is then broadcast both up into the brain and out into the open air, causing passers-by to stop and stare, wondering, perhaps, why you would put firecrackers in your mouth.

They just don’t know what they’re missing.
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Strawberried Peanut Butter M&M’s | Print |  E-mail
Written by Dave Karlotski   
Wednesday, 03 June 2009

Mars Snackfood U.S., Llc.

Despite bewildering packaging featuring some kind of complicated “Transformers” movie tie-in (in the picture, it looks like the M&Ms are covered in trash), Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms are delicious.

The math is hard to deny—peanut butter M&Ms are great, so peanut butter and jelly M&M’s are a good bet too.
They’re the jumbo-sized M&Ms, not the standard slim, so they’re beefy and satisfying. Some of the shells are speckled, which is a nice touch as well.

While they’re not going to replace the classic M&Ms, they’re not meant to, but they do offer a delightful variation on a familiar treat, and that sort of momentary diversion alone can be part of what makes for a great snack.
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