From the monthly archives:
This morning, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled: “Organic Foods Get on Private-Label Wagon: As More Shoppers Pinch Pennies, Grocery Chains See ‘Natural’ Expansion of Store Brands”. The gist of the piece is that brand name organic food producers have begun to offer cheaper, store banded versions of their products. Think: Safeway Organic [...]
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Today The Reluctant Eater talks with Emily Olson, Chief Foodie and co-founder of Foodzie, a San Francisco based online marketplace that sells artisan foods from small growers and producers. Foodzie got its start at Techstars, an exclusive mentor driven yearly program designed to help take early stage startups to the next level based here in [...]
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This is a follow up to my review of Food Inc, where I mentioned that one of the issues raised by the movie was the negative impact on NAFTA on mexican farmers. Wikipedia has a rather comprehensive article on the
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The semi-depressingly named magazine, Living Without “The magazine for people with allergies and food sensitivities”, gives us this list of unique food substitutions.
Some of the highlights:
Milk: replace with 1 cup water & 1 egg yolk
Yogurt: replace with 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
Egg: 3 tbsp unsweetened applesauce & 1 tsp baking powder.
There are quite a few other [...]
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It has taken me 12 years, but I finally feel as though I am no longer squeamish about the possibility that my food has been spoiled. For whatever reason, most of my life I’ve been lead to believe that, for example, you shouldn’t dare eat food that has been un-refrigerated for several hours.
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