Food!

December 6, 2012

Every year, without fail, on talk shows, in magazines, and even among friends and family, the holidays provide fodder for the same lament: how are we to be healthy during a season that holds eating – particularly foods high in calories and sugar – at its core? And every year as I hear this common...

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Juliet Sims

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December 6, 2012

It was late summer, fall was approaching. You could tell from the bushels of sweet, crisp, apples for sale in the Eastern Market (stacks of them in the same formation they were a hundred years ago). We meet on the bustling street corner in front of Cost Plus wine shop, our learning kitchen perched...

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Leander Johnson

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December 6, 2012

The food we eat is as critically important as the air we breathe. That is why I made the documentary film, Soul Food Junkies. It is time that we start to have honest conversations about our food, the rising obesity crisis, and the negative impacts on the health of our families. What better time to...

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Byron Hurt

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December 6, 2012

The country is getting ready to enter prime food time: Christmas! Full of cakes, pies, meats, sauces, heartburn, heart disease, and obesity. Yea... I love it. My mom always used to say that if you're going to have it, meaning sweets and heavy foods, have it in its entirety with no substitutes. She...

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Alison Crockett

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December 6, 2012

As a small-scale organic farmer who believes in the grass-roots power of the local food movement, I find Michelle Obama’s food activism inspiring. When I heard about her reforms to public school lunches, of course I thought it was a step in the right direction. Just a step, mind you: ultimately, I’...

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Arwen Donahue

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December 6, 2012

As a child the primary location of refuge, of passionate conversation and perfumed well-being was at, or occasionally under, the green Formica table my Mother kept scrupulously clean in the corner of her kitchen. Regardless of the terrors that lay immediately beyond the house or, indeed as it was...

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Leon Johnson

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December 6, 2012

It is almost the new year, and I am starting to reflect back on 2012, which has been the year of making choices. Aside from launching my passion project ( Life & Thyme ), I also made a concerted effort to eat healthier, buy from farmers markets as much as possible, cook often and for others,...

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Antonio Diaz

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December 6, 2012

I’m a 5th grader at in Minnesota. My school has a very healthy lunch program, offering a lot of well balanced meal choices. We have six different meal stations: The Main Ingredient, Stock Exchange, Improvisations, Classic Cuts Deli, Seasonings, and the Baking Company. The Main Ingredient is the...

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Aaliyah Kellog

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December 6, 2012

Esta receta se publicó en mi blog bilingüe Nibbles & Feasts . For English, click here . Algunas de las comidas más sencillas y rápidas son las mejores. Me gusta sobre todo aquellas que tienen la perfecta cantidad de verduras, proteínas y carbohidratos. Los días ventosos y noches frías de otoño...

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Ericka Sanchez

Food!

December 6, 2012

This recipe originally appeared in my bilingual blog Nibbles & Feasts . Para español, haga clic aquí . Some of the simplest and quickest meals are the best tasting. I especially love those that are balanced with veggies, protein and the perfect amount of comfy carbs. The breezy warm days and...

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Ericka Sanchez