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The First Int’l Blueberry Festival in China

Written by on February 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A few month’s ago I was contacted by Mark Fagen, a senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at Harvard University. He had contacted me because he was interested in getting copies of The Mighty Humble Blueberry to take with him on a trip he was making to China to speak to [...] Read more »

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Baking Organically for Valentines Day

Written by on February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Listen in to this podcast if you are baking sweets for your sweetie this Valentines Day and want to keep it organic. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Sarah Magid is an organic baker who bakes custom organic cakes and sweets for weddings, parties, corporate events, and for all those who have a sweet tooth. Her cookbook [...] Read more »

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High Nutrition & Great Taste = Pulse Crops

Written by on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Grown in the Pacific Northwest and along the Northern Plains of the United States, Pulse crops provide us with excellent sources of nutrition. In this podcast we speak with Tim McGreevy, the executive director of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council. Listen &  learn what Pulse crops are and why Tim McGreevy finds them [...] Read more »

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Family, Freinds & Recipes = Sharecipe.com

Written by on February 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Katie of Sharecipe.com talks with us about the great success of Sharecipe.com, a website she developed where people can socialize and swap recipes & cooking tips. After moving from the Northeast, to the West Coast and back to her home in middle America, Katie saw a need to reestablish the tradition of sharing recipes with [...] Read more »

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World Wine Tour 2010: First Stop – Moscow!

Written by on February 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Anja & Georges of the World Wine Tour 2010 are currently in China, and it marks their second stop on an extraordinary wine-trek that is taking them around the globe. To bring you up to speed, here are some of the things they have seen and learned on their journey so far: Red Square in [...] Read more »

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Pittsburgh’s Edible Schoolyard

Written by on February 1, 2010 · 1 Comment

Based on the seed-to-table learning model initiated by Alice Waters in Berkeley, CA, The Pittsburgh Edible Schoolyard integrates garden activities into the regular classroom curriculum to improve young students’ eating habits, invest students in their school communities, and enhance students’ academic performance. Now in its fourth year in the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), The Edible [...] Read more »

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