Organic food delivered at home | Atlanta Food & Drink Blog | Omnivore. Creative Loafing Atlanta Browse Food and Drink Browse Music Browse News Browse A and E Browse Movies and TV Browse Sex & Vice Browse Blogs Browse Promotions Browse Classifieds Browse Best of Atlanta Omnivore Archives | RSS « Panera issues reading comprehension… | Chef Jeffery Wall leaving La Fourch… » More Sharing ServicesShare Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Food & Life Organic food delivered at home Posted by Andrea Duke on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM www.organicconsumers.orgGreen Polka Dot Box delivers organic foods straight to your doorstep If you have to have organic when it comes to food, or eat gluten-free, here's a deal that might make you think twice about driving down to Whole Foods. Keeping a health-conscious mind, Smith created a company dedicated to offering fresh organic products, gluten-free products, and even pet and baby care items. For those with dietary restrictions, the company also offers more alternatives than most chain grocery stores.
Comments Showing 1-1 of 1 Add a comment like dislike. Links for the First Half of May. The U.S.D.A. has introduced new nutrition labeling. June 11, 2012 | Updated Here is a video detailing the U.S.D.A.’s new nutrition labels for meat and poultry. It’s a nice thing to know how many calories, for instance, are in our meat; it would be much nicer to know how many chemicals or antibiotics are in there as well. If information about a product would deter any significant number of people from buying it, then the U.S.D.A. probably isn’t going to put in on the package. Bad for health, good for business. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has released a fascinating report about the F.D.A.’s failure to regulate antibiotics in ethanol.
Here are the highlights of the House G.O.P.’s proposal to cut $300 billion in spending over the next 10 years, which includes $35.8 billion in cuts to food stamps (achieved through getting rid of proposed benefit increases and making it harder to become eligible for the program). Oxfam InternationalEster Jerome, an AlterNet food trailblazer. Summing up the 2012 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival - Dining News - Covered Dish - Blogs.
Around 3 p.m. yesterday, as many of us were still crowded under the tasting tents at the second annual Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, avoiding a downpour during the event’s one day of inclement weather, tweets started rolling in from national taste arbiters. Josh Ozersky (@OzerskyTV), a food columnist for Time magazine, wrote, “Goodbye to a great food city and the festival that brought it to the world. #afwf12 I'll never miss this one again.” Raphael Brion (@raphael_brion), national editor for Eater, said, “Atlanta is a great food town and has an equally great food fest.” I saw these comments and felt something between pride and vindication. I heard a lot of first- and second-hand remarks this weekend about how surprised visitors are to discover the culinary riches here, and how the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival is becoming an ambassador for the city like we’ve never had before.
Picture: Pork Tamale from Alma Cocina in the tasting tents on Saturday. 'Eat Local' Food App Shows What's in Season Near You. Gmtbillings/CC BY 2.0 Eating locally generally means going to the farmers market and buying what’s available at the time. It’s a lovely way to shop, but it does leave you at the mercy of the market. It’s shopping based on spontaneity and can make it difficult to plan much in advance. And although that is part and parcel for locavores, a new app has been developed that may help to change that. To assist you in finding out what's in season where you are, locate nearby farmers markets anywhere in the United States, and find seasonal recipes, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) created the app, Eat Local. Having found that "choosing produce that is grown locally, and picked at the peak of freshness, matters a lot in terms of better taste and nutritional value,” Paul McRandle and Wendy Gordon of NRDC worked together with developer, Scott Santulli, to create the new tool.
Eat Local/Screen capture Adds Gordon, "I've got yet another reason for buying my produce at the farmers market. Use of common pesticide, imidacloprid, linked to bee colony collapse. The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
The authors, led by Alex Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health, write that the new research provides "convincing evidence" of the link between imidacloprid and the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in which adult bees abandon their hives. The study will appear in the June issue of the Bulletin of Insectology.
"The significance of bees to agriculture cannot be underestimated," says Lu. "And it apparently doesn't take much of the pesticide to affect the bees. Our experiment included pesticide amounts below what is normally present in the environment. " Lu and his co-authors hypothesized that the uptick in CCD resulted from the presence of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid introduced in the early 1990s.