Blog entries tagged food

Chocolate

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Chocolate is at least 3000 years old, and we have the ancient Mayans to thank for it. By way of the conquistadors, that is.

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Bruce Robinson — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Communal living was a idealistic experiment for some back when the counter-culture was in full flower, and The Farm, a pioneering outpost in rural Tennessee, mostly managed to live up to those ideals.

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Food Stamps at Farmer's Market

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100

A change at the Santa Rosa Farmer’s Market that begins on Saturday may help some lower income households enjoy healthier menus.

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Wal-Mart, Again

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Round Two in the fight over expanding Wal-Mart in Rohnert Park is on the city council agenda tonight, a debate that can be summarized as lower prices for consumers in the short term versus constraints on local economic growth in the long term.

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Luther Burbank's Farm

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Luther Burbank’s greenhouse is an icon of Santa Rosa, but the famed horticulturalist actually did most of his ground-breaking work at another site—his 18 acre Goldridge Farm in Sebastopol.{play}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/4-23-10.mp3{/play}

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Hunger—now called “food insecurity” in government-speak, is a growing problem across the United States, but one that conflicts with our national self-image

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Clover Billboard Contest

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0100

The winner of the latest “Clo the Cow” billboard slogan contest drew from Dirty Harry to get a happy diary.

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Clo the Cow will be featured on the billboard with the winning slogan, of course, but Clover-Stornetta president Marcus Benedetti says the cartoon cow is more than just a pretty face.

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Daily Acts

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Daily Acts, a Petaluma-based dedicated to sustainability and transformation, works, its founder says, by exercising “the freedom to act without having all the answers.”

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As Alameda County’s Public Health Officer, Dr. Anthony Iton (lRead More...

School lunch standards

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

School lunches are free for many students, but filling up on empty calories has some long-term costs. That’s why Slow Food activists are pushing for more funds and better nutritional standards to upgrade what the next generation is eating.

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Invasive Snails

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

A complex interaction between native crabs and oysters and invasive Atlantic snails (seen at left) is playing out beneath the waters of Tomales Bay.

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Prenatal Pollution

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Exposure to toxic chemicals in our environment begins early in life--even before birth.

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Ken Cook, President and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, is a strong proponent for a Kids-Safe ChemicRead More...

Beer

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0100

Beer is harder to make than wine, and better for you as well, according to a professor of brewing science.

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Charles Bamforth chairs the Department of Food Science &Read More...

Urban Permaculture

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0100

Permaculture - an idea that began around sustainable agriculture - is moving into the urban environment.

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You can also learn more about this subject at the Oakland-based Urban Permaculture Guild.

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