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Sesame Street and Fun with Food


Seriously.  Anything in a bright orange box featuring a happy, smiling Grover front-and-center screams fun… and what better way to get your kids to eat organic, whole grain nutrition, right?  The folks at New Earth’s Best have introduced Sesame Street Organic Alphabet Pasta that is sure to be a kid-pleaser.  And besides the fact that it is healthy, […]

A for Asparagus


Editor’s note: Erika and her family are working their way through the alphabet by trying a new vegetable each week.
The asparagus adventure has been revealing to me. Over the last week or so I have prepared asparagus about five times — each way different from the other. The first preparation was simply roasted […]

Fighting childhood obesity - from the top down


In the April 22 issue of the New York Times Magazine, Science writer and U.C. Berkeley Journalism professor Michael Pollan wrote up a fascinating critic of the Farm Bill. (Subscription may be required)
The Farm Bill? (yawn). Much as we like to keep abreast of current events, arcane legislation is very low on the radar of […]