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“Al dente” Sweet Potatoes

December 6, 2012
In many African-American families, holiday meals include sweet potatoes or yams…and often they’re prepared simmering in butter, brown and white sugar, and possibly even marshmallows. In other words, fat, sugar and more sugar. This type of preparation probably negates the incredible nutritional...
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Mango, Jicama, and Cucumber Salad

December 6, 2012
This recipe originally appeared on the Muy Bueno Cookbook blog , which I publish with my mother and sister. The warm weather is a long ways away and there is nothing I enjoy more than frolicking in the sun and less time in the kitchen, at the hot stove or oven. In the summer I love to experiment...
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No Recipe, Healthy, Veggie-Filled and Local Mac n Cheese

December 6, 2012
This article originally appeared in my blog, Non-Toxic Kids . You can find more tips for safer, greener, and healthier eating in my ebook, Eat Non-Toxic: a manual for busy parents . Is there nothing kids love more than macaroni and cheese? Such lovely melted goodness, especially the homemade kind...
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Joining the Chorus: Food Marketing Policy “Failures” Still Attract New Advocates to the Cause

December 6, 2012
Every year, without fail, on talk shows, in magazines, and even among friends and family, the holidays provide fodder for the same lament: how are we to be healthy during a season that holds eating – particularly foods high in calories and sugar – at its core? And every year as I hear this common...
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Joyful Food Rituals

December 6, 2012
It was late summer, fall was approaching. You could tell from the bushels of sweet, crisp, apples for sale in the Eastern Market (stacks of them in the same formation they were a hundred years ago). We meet on the bustling street corner in front of Cost Plus wine shop, our learning kitchen perched...
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The Holiday Season is Food Season!

December 6, 2012
The food we eat is as critically important as the air we breathe. That is why I made the documentary film, Soul Food Junkies. It is time that we start to have honest conversations about our food, the rising obesity crisis, and the negative impacts on the health of our families. What better time to...
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If you want to make holiday food healthier, add liquor and slap a European name on it...

December 6, 2012
The country is getting ready to enter prime food time: Christmas! Full of cakes, pies, meats, sauces, heartburn, heart disease, and obesity. Yea... I love it. My mom always used to say that if you're going to have it, meaning sweets and heavy foods, have it in its entirety with no substitutes. She...
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A Farmer Navigates Heated Moms’ Meetings About School Lunches

December 6, 2012
As a small-scale organic farmer who believes in the grass-roots power of the local food movement, I find Michelle Obama’s food activism inspiring. When I heard about her reforms to public school lunches, of course I thought it was a step in the right direction. Just a step, mind you: ultimately, I’...
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Building A Kitchen, Building Community

December 6, 2012
As a child the primary location of refuge, of passionate conversation and perfumed well-being was at, or occasionally under, the green Formica table my Mother kept scrupulously clean in the corner of her kitchen. Regardless of the terrors that lay immediately beyond the house or, indeed as it was...
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In Food We Trust

December 6, 2012
It is almost the new year, and I am starting to reflect back on 2012, which has been the year of making choices. Aside from launching my passion project ( Life & Thyme ), I also made a concerted effort to eat healthier, buy from farmers markets as much as possible, cook often and for others,...
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