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Too Busy to Eat Good Food? Blame the Kids!

Posted in Family & Home, News & Views on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 7:30am by lee -

"The Feast," by SubwayHere’s what I’m dealing with. I’ve got these 2 boys, 7 and 11 years old (yeah, yeah, just like “7-11”), and they always seem to take forever to get going in the morning. Like this morning they woke up at 7 am, and they took about 20 minutes to get dressed. I was totally annoyed. I mean, the boys took so long we didn’t even have time to let them eat their cereal in front of the TV. We basically had to rush them out the door as soon as their coats were on, which meant that - again - they’d be eating breakfast bars in the car in the way to school.

Organic Valley is the Official Milk Supplier for Boulder Valley School District

Posted in Family & Home, Out & About on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 7:52am by lee -

In light of Simple, Good, and Tasty's recent article about our national school lunch program, I want to share some great news about school lunches for the kids in Colorado's 28,000 student Boulder Valley School District (BVSD): thanks to a recent partnership with Organic Valley, the milk will be organic. Here's an excerpt from their press release:

How Can I Possibly Eat More Leeks?

Posted in Farms & Gardens on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 8:59am by lee -

Do you have any idea how hard it is to eat five huge leeks each week? Who do the people at Harmony Valley Farm think I am? How much soup can I possibly eat? Don't they want me to spend my time writing blog posts? For goodness sakes, people, I'm doing the best I can! We make a terrific leek feta salsa, and my wife grilled leeks just the other day, but sheesh!

National School Lunch Program: Is Opting Out an Option?

Posted in Family & Home, News & Views on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 5:06pm by Shari Danielson -

Just last week, Congress voted its support for the current agricultural appropriations bill, HR 2997, reauthorizing, among other things, funding for school lunch programs.

I supported the bill because, as I was told by the head of nutrition for my kids’ school district, the lunches served in school cafeterias are the only daily meal that millions of American children can count on.

Rebecca Irey Discusses Pure Market Express

Posted in Out & About on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 7:40am by lee -

I recently had the chance to conduct an email interview with Rebecca Irey, Certified Raw Chef and co-founder of Minnesota's Pure Market Express. (I posted my own take on Pure Market Express and their food yesterday.) Rebecca discussed her reasons for starting a raw food company, her thoughts on sustainability and local food, and her plans for the business. Here's our interview:

SGT: Tell me a little bit about your background.

Pure Market Express Offers Raw Food to Go

Posted in Out & About on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:05am by lee -

Quentin and Rebecca Irey"We want to change people's lives," Quentin Irey tells me, "we want to bring raw food to the masses." I'm trying to listen while eating a plate of food on which nothing is what it sounds like. Quentin and his wife Rebecca, the Twin Cities entrepreneurs who recently founded Pure Market Express, have just served me samples of four raw foods, and they won't say any more until I've tried what they're calling a bacon jalapeno popper. What concerns me is that the "bacon" they're serving is made from eggplant, and the "cheese" is a mixture of pine nuts, chives, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Got a Craving for Raw Milk? Blame it on Nina Planck

Posted in Books & Media, Health, News & Views on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 9:20pm by Shari Danielson -

Every Tuesday morning, the supplier, under cover of pre-dawn darkness, packs up his truck in rural Minnesota to make his weekly delivery. His drop-off site is a nondescript, middle-class home in a Minneapolis suburb, where his regular customers begin to converge around 8:00 a.m. They drive up, park, pick up their orders, leave cash, then return to their everyday lives.

What they’re doing is illegal, but the contraband isn’t cocaine, krugerrands or even Cuban cigars.

It’s milk. Straight from the cow. Whole, non-pasteurized, non-homogenized, non-industrialized, raw milk.

Photos from Last Night's Event at Lucia's

Posted in Out & About on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:37am by lee -

Here are a few photos from last night's Simple, Good, and Tasty local food event at Lucia's, taken by my talented friend Kate Sommers. (Our recap of the event can be found here.) Kate's blog Les Petites Images features photos and musings, mostly focused on food. For the complete set of photos from last night's event, please see our flicker photo series.