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Food
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Written by Matt Kanner
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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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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Written by staff
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
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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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Written by Twilight Greenway
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
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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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Written by staff
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 |
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(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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Written by Dave Karlotski
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
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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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