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  • An eleven year old tells us about our food system.

    michelle September 28, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Just saw this wonderful five minute video of what is wrong, and also what is right about our food system at Civil eats (a great web site). What makes it even more extraordinary is that it is given by an eleven year old at a TEDx event. This is all so obvious that a child

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  • Boulette’s Larder-As inviting as your best friend’s kitchen

    michelle victoria February 19, 2010     2 Comments     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Restaurants, San Francisco-Bay Area, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Imagine a restaurant that feels as if you are in your best friends kitchen, that is if your best friend happens to be a fabulous cook and uses only the freshest and mainly local ingredients. This is the feeling that I had at Boulette’s Larder in San Francisco, at the Ferry Building. You would not

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  • More from Embudo…a video so you can be there too!

    michelle victoria October 1, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Restaurants, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses, Video Clips

    Here is a short Video from Embudo Station from my visit there a few weeks ago. It is filmed, produced and edited by my friend Sharyn Bey, who I will be working with to bring you more live action from places that I visit.  It is almost like being there except that you don’t get

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  • A real lesson in farming-Green String Institute

    michelle victoria October 1, 2009     1 Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    In 2000 Fred Cline, founder of Cline Cellars, and Bob Cannard founded the Green String Institute. The Institute was created because both men saw that as the concept of organic farming became more popular it was unfortunately also being diluted from what it truly is. To Bob Cannard, one of the pioneers of the organic movement

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  • Fresh blue corn cornbread thanks to Talon de Gato Farm at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market

    michelle victoria September 20, 2009     2 Comments     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Recipes, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Yesterday at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market I was lucky to spot the last bag of blue cornmeal at one of the vendor’s stands and this morning I made this blue corn cornbread. I had not planned to post this here but I had someone Tweet me (my Twitter name is SmartLifeways if you would like to

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  • Embudo Station…Farm to table along the Rio Grande

    michelle victoria September 17, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Restaurants, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Have you ever noticed how sometimes you drive past a business without giving it any thought at all and other times your curiosity is immediately, or perhaps over time, peaked. When you travel on Hwy. 68, the “low road” from Santa Fe to Taos you pass Embudo Station which is located on the banks of

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  • Very Hip, Very Sustainable, Very Delicious…Akasha

    michelle victoria September 3, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Akasha is a wonderful restaurant serving American comfort food (and some other countries versions too) that just happens to use the finest local, organic and hand-crafted ingredients that can be found. It feels to me as if Akasha Richmond, the chef/owner, has the gift of creating amazing dishes and her own personal values insist on

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  • Cru in Silverlake-Delicious and Organic

    michelle victoria August 31, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Raw or cooked, Cru’s vegan dishes will have you wondering why you would ever eat any other way. Chef Rachel Carr has perfected the art of vegan cooking and food preparation…how else can you describe her wonderful ‘uncooked’ raw dishes. Originally, Cru served exclusively raw dishes but now you can enjoy both delicious raw and cooked dishes

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  • Corn is King

    michelle victoria August 26, 2009     3 Comments     Films to see, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Imagine that Americans who eat a typical, commercially processed American diet are probably eating some form of corn in every meal. The documentary film King Corn   http://www.kingcorn.net/ (available at Netflix) shows two friends who decide to grow an acre of corn in Iowa to learn what is involved to grow it and where it

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  • Avoiding Genetically Modified Food

    michelle victoria August 25, 2009     1 Comment     GMO-GE Information, Slow Food

    Do you know that unless you are eating organic you are more than likely consuming genetically modified food? This is probably the largest experiment ever conducted on a non-consenting public, and for many a non-aware public. Very little is known about the long term effects of this food but many scientists and doctors are speaking out against it.

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