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Obama Wants a Farmers Market at the White House

Check out this quote from President Obama's interactive health care strategy meeting yesterday (via The Huffington Post):

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The Strip Club Does Not Disappoint

 Straight From the FarmGround cherry image credit: Straight From the FarmLast night's Simple, Good, and Tasty local food dinner at the Strip Club in St. Paul did not disappoint. In fact, Kate O'Reilly Hillesheim described it to her friends on Facebook as "no joke, best meal of my life." Here were a few highlights:

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Recipe: Yellow Watermelon Gazpacho with Crumbled Feta

Adam Anderson, former chef at Lucia's (currently at Whole Foods), creates Simple, Good, and Tasty recipes on a regular basis, using the ingredients from our Harmony Valley Farm CSA boxes. Here's his latest.

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Simple, Good, and Tasty Dinner at the Strip Club TONIGHT

Tonight's the night for the August Simple, Good, and Tasty dinner at the Strip Club, sure to be another terrific local food experience with friends. For the 50 of us lucky enough to have signed up first, Here are the details:

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September Local Food Dinner Announced: Potluck and Pig Roast on 9/13

For September's Simple, Good, and Tasty local food dinner, we're trying something a little bit different - the biggest, best, funnest local food potluck and pig roast that the Twin Cities has ever seen. SGT will provide the pig - you bring your family, friends, and a dish to share. This is a great, inexpensive opportunity to meet local food enthusiasts, cook up your CSA/farmshare bounty, and eat great food.

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Nina Planck Discusses Real Food

This 6 minute video, filmed in 2007, features the terrific Nina Planck describing her relationship with food, the science behind dietary advice, and why it's better to eat real food than poor imitations. Planck is practical and personable. I'm a big fan of her approach.

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The Health Care Debate on Fat is a Bunch of Baloney

If you’re following the national shouting match on health care reform, you may have noticed a hue and cry against fat people. If you Google the phrase “obese people should pay more for national health care,” you’ll see a slew of articles, blogs, and comments on the subject. Many people who say “amen to that” are being pretty judgmental. They characterize obesity as the self-imposed condition of slackers who refuse to change their willfully poor food and exercise choices. Commentators describe payment as punishment and health care as burden. As in, thin people are being punished by having to pay for fat people’s choices.

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Garlic Festival Just Stinky as it Sounds

My family and I had a fun time at the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota's Garlic Festival this past weekend in Hutchinson, MN.

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