The year I spent living in Florence, Italy, taught me a lot about the many uses of olive oil. In cooking classes I learned about using olive oil for cooking, dipping bread, and dressing pasta and vegetables, of course, but it was from my Italian friends and neighbors that I learned olive oil can function […]
Living Naturally
Delicious Organic Corn Crackers/ Corn Cakes
In what’s becoming a snacking theme, I thought I’d share with you what has become one of my go-to crackers: Real Foods Sesame Corn Thins. A Certified Organic, GMO-free product out of Australia, the only ingredients in these addictive crackers are organic corn, organic sesame seeds, and sea salt. Somehow, these simple ingredients are pressed […]
A Healthy Snacking Option: Seaweed Snacks
One of our favorite snacks at our house are toasted seaweed strips. These irresistibly crunchy, salty, flavorful strips of nori are the same toasted seaweed wrappers used for making sushi rolls, cut into 3″ strips for snacking and often flavored with teryaki, sesame, or spicy chiles. You can find them in large plastic jars or […]
Consumers Can Influence Food Suppliers
You should check out Robyn O’Brien’s post in Shape Magazine on “3 Examples of How Consumers Changed the Food Supply.” As a former financial analyst for the food industry, Robyn is in a good position to understand how companies react to consumer demands. She gives a good list as to how consumers and social media […]
GMO Labeling Efforts: What Now?
With the election now behind us, it is a bummer to see that Prop 37, the proposal which would have required Genetically Modified foods to be labeled as such, failed in California. It’s not surprising that this grass-roots-led effort failed, as corporate interests spent $45-50 million dollars to defeat it. Who had these deep pockets […]
