How funny is it that we can go along for years and years blissfully ignoring truths around us? May it be health care, war, poverty—we choose to overlook anything we can easily get away with sweeping under the rug if we don’t think we’re really impacted by it.
My arrival into food awareness came on unexpectedly, [...]
Categories: All natural Green Living Sustained Farming nutrition organicat this item I found in the street before I confirmed what it was — a weiner. If my late dog Neyland had been walking with me, I never would have noticed the hot dog in the street. I would have just seen Neyland swallowing something and licking his mouth.
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Here’s a good reason why food manufacturers don’t want to test for harmful chemicals. If you test, you might find something you don’t want to.
Consumer Reports did just that It tested a bunch of canned juices, soups, tuna, and green beans and found bisphenol A (BPA) in almost all of them — even the ones [...]
It’s getting chilly outside these days. This type of weather puts me into a purge mode. I’m not sure why, but the anticipation of snow makes me reflective of my living quarters. My focus this week is on my pantry. Through the past year, I’ve collected various foods– either for recipes that never got made [...]
On Sunday as I was out and about with my photographer and sister-friend the lovely Janelle Tamara Bennett of Jantamabe Photography; we encountered an actual sit down Chinese restaurant worthy of blogging about in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn.
She had just captured a few shots of me at this cute little coffee [...]
Categories: Out and About
Tags: Brooklyn, Connecticut Muffin, food, Janelle Bennett, Jantambe Photography, Lela Jefferson, Park Slope, Szechuan Delight
SIGG has posted a number of files with test results of their old and new liners, along with several other types of reusable bottles. The main points are:
* Old liners contained “trace amounts” of BPA but have been tested to be non-leaching, which is pretty good news. PDF files of the test results are here [...]
Categories: health Tags: bpa, food, health, integrity, non-toxic living, school lunch, shopping, Whole Foods
How disappointing to learn that SIGG bottle liners have contained bisphenol-A (BPA) all along – up until August of last year, when the company debuted their new BPA-free eco-liner.
CEO Steve Wasik has posted a “bulletin” finally letting us in on the secret. Meanwhile suspicions about BPA’s adverse effects (I first heard of them in 2003) [...]
Categories: health Tags: bpa, ewg, food, health, integrity, kids, non-toxic living, school lunch, shopping
Just as I’ve been blogging about dairy, I saw today that NPR has a really excellent story about Big Milk.
Yesterday I was at Whole Foods looking at packages of single-serve milk boxes for the kids’ school lunches. The only large packs were from Horizon, a mega-organic-farm owned by dairy giant Dean Foods. So when a [...]
Categories: food Tags: agriculture, clippings, food, integrity, Milk, school lunch, shopping, Sustainability, Whole Foods
The chickens have landed.
We sent The Boy, age 8, to a pricey day camp to learn about science, and, after three weeks, he told me his favorite part was the chickens.
Chickens. We’re dog people, I explained. Dogs are smart, loyal animals, man’s best friend, etc. We also have some overgrown goldfish swimming in a meditation [...]
In recent years, many companies have been trying to jump on the organic bandwagon, seizing the market opportunity presented by consumers who are willing to pay a premium for healthier or responsibly sourced foods. So often we make a leap of faith, trusting our food dollars to stores and growers – much as we entrust [...]
