michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices, School Lunches
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution now has proof that good, “real”, food makes for healthier (did we even need to wonder?) kids and improved learning. Jamie Oliver’s work changing school lunches is nothing new for him. What he is attempting to do in W. Virginia he started in 2004 in England with his Feed Me Better program.
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Recipes
This is my basic scone recipe. I have been using it more or less in this form ever since I had an organic coffee house in Sedona, Arizona in the early 90’s. It is not the excessively sweet, made with white flour version that you might have gotten used to in the last few years as they
michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Recipes, Sustainable Agriculture
I hear quite often that people feel as if they don’t have the time to cook proper meals and that is why they are caught in the snacking, fast food or always eating out syndrom, even when they know that what they are eating is not good for them….But I think most of these people
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Industrial food practices, School Lunches
Last night was the preview for Chef Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution. I will say from the start as much as I love to cook, and I even opened a coffee house/cafe to fulfill this love of cooking, I rarely watch cooking shows and had never seem Jamie’s TV show. Naturally I have
michelle victoria 3 Comments Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
Not too long ago Silk products, including their Silk soy milk, switched from using organic soybeans to cheaper commercial or ‘natural’ (as their web site says) soybeans in almost all of their products. This switch took place in a way that most consumers would never have noticed. Initially the packaging remained virtually unchanged except for
michelle victoria 1 Comment Industrial food practices, Sustainable Businesses
This is a great short quiz from Planet Green that will bring to your attention who really owns many of the largest organic food brands…You may be surprised. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing if we think a brand is independently owned and it turns out that a mega-corporation actually owns it, but it
michelle victoria 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
michelle victoria No Comment Farm to Table, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building
A two day G20 summit, not very long considering how many critical issues are at hand, will convene tomorrow in PIttsburgh. I had no idea but Pittsburgh is being hailed as one of the greenest urban centers in the U.S. Could this be? transformed from the city of steel, to the city of green. Sounds
michelle victoria 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
michelle victoria 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