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Spring Greening: Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products for Your Kitchen
At a growing number of coffee shops, getting a coffee to go means checking out a cup
"If you buy a cup of coffee to go at Babette Café in Berkeley, California, later this month, you might not be able to get it in a disposable cup. The owners have one case of compostable cups left, ...
Belcampo Restaurant | Hillsdale - San Mateo
One year and seven days after Belcampo Meat Company shut down its Palo Alto and San Francisco Russian Hill restaurants/stores, the new restaurant in San Mateo's Hillsdale shopping center is slated ...
Popeyes Signs On to Better Chicken Commitment
“We commend Popeyes for taking a significant step toward reducing this suffering with their new policy. It also makes clear that if the king of the chicken sandwich can commit to treating chickens ...
Op-Ed: California Budget Boosts Healthy Food for Kids and Markets for Farmers
" . . . This vision focuses on upgrading food quality and freshness, serving more climate-friendly, plant-based and organic food, supporting local farmers, developing food and garden education prog...
Cheese Goals for 2020
Culture mag proposes some interesting cheese resolutions for this coming year. What are yours?
2019/20 California olive oil harvest looking strong compared to dismal 2018/19 crop, says COOC
". . . 'We had a short crop in 2018 due to weather problems throughout the state, whereas we're hoping for four million gallons in the 2019 harvest . . . more than double what we had in 2018. . . "
How to reduce food waste this holiday season
"This holiday season, avoid tossing food in the trash by taking these steps: • Try not to over prepare food; instead try to prepare “just enough.” • Encourage friends and family to take...
A champion of the unplugged, earth-conscious life, Wendell Berry is still ahead of us
Today, October 12, is National Farmers Day. Unusual for me on a Saturday, I didn't make it to my local farmers market. In truth, I didn't even leave the house. However, the first thing I read this ...
California crab fishermen are testing “ropeless” gear to save whales—and themselves
In April, crab fishermen and consumers were taken by surprise when the Dungeness crab season closed two months early due to a lawsuit and settlement over whale entanglements. https://www.chowhound...
Totem Coffee Roasters | Placerville
My last mouthful in Hangtown was at Totem Coffee Roasters. Yes, Placerville has its own small batch, artisanal coffee roaster. While my cappuccino ($3.86) was well-made, the Guatemalan-Peru ble...
5 Ways to Host a More Environmentally Friendly BBQ
" . . . The biggest impact of the cookout, and easiest thing to adjust, is the food. Visit the Farmers’ Market ... Less Meat but better Meat ... Food Waste-free Cookout . . . "
"Wasted!" screening & panel discussion, free (July 20 HMB & Aug 4 San Carlos)
The Master Food Preservers tackle food waste! "Join the San Mateo/San Francisco MFP program for a screening of the exciting documentary Wasted!, followed by a panel discussion with local leaders...
Your Hummus Habit Could Be Good For The Earth
" . . . Some American farmers were already well on their way to embracing pulses, seeing the role they could play in improving soil health and setting the stage for better harvests of cash crops li...
RECOOL - Igloo's biodegradable reusable cooler
" . . . Recool would work well as a cheap, eco-friendly cooler during a tailgate or a quick day-trip to the beach. I can't imagine squeezing in much more than that six-pack or so once you've filled...
Cheap thrills: economical dinner menu that wows
I was going to make a lavish dinner for a friend, but need to scale back as I had a financial set back. He loves Italian food. He lives in Mexico so no Mexican food. I don't want to make pasta as ...
Bluefin Blues: Valuing A Tuna Species Before It's Too Late
"... The future for Pacific bluefin is anything but bright. Late last month, new projections from the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean sh...
Edible Cutlery...So Cool!
Sorry if this has been posted about before, but this is seemingly a great product with much future potential. The cutlery is made largely from millet, is environmentally friendly, decomposes after ...
Recycling: Do you? How Do you? Etc.
I love that my city of Minneapolis does no-sort recycling and they've added aseptic packaging (Tetra Pak) to the mix of stuff I can recycle. In the last two years I've gone from two trash bags a we...
Is it ethical to eat Bluefin Tuna?
On the Boston board there was discussion of whether Atlantic Bluefin should be eaten. The Monterrey aquarium says no: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/download.aspx Personal...
Food Container Recycling in Brookline?
Does amyone have any links they could share about how Brookline got its smart food related recycling program? I feel very out of it; because I had no idea, until yesterday's lunch at Dorado,that th...