From the monthly archives: October 2010
Wake up your boring breakfast routine with these unusual oatmeal recipes: Creamy Almond-Coconut with Dates, Pistachio and Cardamom, Chai-Spiced, Persimmon or Pumpkin, Indian-Spiced, Savory Scallions and Soy Sauce, and Curried Caramelized Onions. Also share your favorite oatmeal recipes.
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Here’s a fun one. Someone shared this video with me recently and I thought it was worth sharing with you all.
Mushrooms are apparently amazing. I have never spent much time learning about these fungi, but after watching this video below, I have developed a great respect for them. It is likely they [...]
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Renegade lunch lady Ann Cooper discusses the food in our schools. This TED talk is a few years old, but it’s still timely. Not much has changed in most schools since she filmed this talk.
An early point she makes is that food should look like food. Kids don’t know what [...]
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As if industrial agriculture wasn’t polluting water enough with manufactured chemical pesticides, now researchers have discovered that U.S. streams are also contaminated with insecticides genetically engineered into plants. According to a study published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Bt toxin from GMO corn is finding its way into streams.
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I’ve written on a number of famous vegetarian and vegan celebrities in the past, from Orlando Bloom to Henry Ford to Carl Lewis to Mike Tyson. As you’ve probably heard, Bill Clinton is the latest to become (almost) vegan.
Clinton has switched to a primarily plant-based diet mainly [...]
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The outcry over FDA considering allowing genetically modified salmon for human consumption has almost overshadowed another GM animal that’s up for approval: the Enviropig.
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Urban gardens are a great way to grow local and organic food; however, recent research highlights that some urban gardens may be contaminated with lead.
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One week ago, Stephen Colbert, the quite famous Comedy Central host, stepped outside of Comedy Central’s studios (but not outside of his role as a faux-right-wing pundit) to testify at a real hearing of the House’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security [video below].
While Colbert brought humor into this the whole way [...]
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