September 2011
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Miracle Water Village in India: one village's...
The video Miracle Water Village in India is a wonderful story and lesson for the rest of the world. Shiyam Sundar says: “As the world reels under the threat of unrelenting climate change, erratic monsoons and fast depleting groundwater reserves, The Miracle Water Village narrates the inspirational story of impoverished farming community in India that reversed its fortunes through its...
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The state of the school lunch tray and efforts to...
School food revolution? The state of the school lunch tray and efforts to improve kids’ health. Click here to read more about the Healthy Food, Healthy Farms Webinar Series and sign up for this fascinating Webinair on Thursday, October 6, sponsored by the Healthy Food Action site.
This news brief was brought to you by Jonell Galloway, editor of our main The Rambling Epicure site.
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It's apple season: Matefin à la pomme / apple...
by Jonell Galloway
O Délices discovered this recipe on blog de Guillemette.
This is a traditional recipe from the Savoy, so it’s not so far from us in Switzerland.
The original name comes from the French mâte faim. Peasants prepared these potato pancakes in the morning before going to work in the fields. It was meant to keep them going until lunchtime.
This version uses apples instead...
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Analyze why you are overweight with Whole Living's...
by Jonell Galloway
If we’re overweight, it may be due to many different reasons, depending on our culture, habits, genes, and psyches, says John Bagnulo, nutritionist at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. “Only by examining both the physical and psychological reasons can you find what works for you.”
Click here to see the explanatory slideshow...
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An organic produce store opens in a poor...
by Jonell Galloway
Watch this video! An organic produce store opens in a poor neighborhood riddled with liquor stores, and it is selling produce from urban gardens and local farms. I certainly support the cause!
In West Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, People’s Grocery is creating a healthy alternative, offering access to organic produce. Through urban gardens...
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Obese and non-obese have different brain responses...
An article by Elizabeth Nolan Brown on the BlissTree site talks at length about a new study that compared the brain’s response to junk food photos, and it seems there is a vast difference between obese and non-obsese people.
There was a time when people thought body-size was all about willpower—control what you eat, exercise, and you’ll be thin; over-indulge or sloth around, and you...
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The Atlantic Life on Antibiotic Resistance and the...
A recent article by Neil Wagner in The Atlantic Life says:
Feeding antibiotics to livestock creates an ever-increasing number of resistant bacteria, including many that can harm humans.
A recent study from the Maryland School of Public Health has found a simple way to help overcome the health problems caused by antibiotic resistance: stop adding antibiotics to animal feed. The study found that...
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Op-Ed: Why I don't like French salads
by Jonell Galloway
We all know what a Francophile I am, especially when it comes to food and wine.
But there is ONE thing the French do which really gets on my nerves!
In the first place, rare is the restaurant that uses good lettuce. Mesclun is considered some kind of luxury, and now that I’ve lived in Switzerland, I’m accustomed to eating the wild greens and mesclun fresh from...
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Cooking smoke deadly threat in developing world
Cooking a hot meal is one the most basic, instinctive, nurturing ways to feed the body and soul of a loved one. Yet for nearly 3 billion people in the developing world with inefficient and rudimentary stoves, it yields an unsavory outcome.
Approximately 1.9 million people - mostly women and children - die prematurely each year because of exposure to and respiratory complications from poorly...
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The Rambling Epicure has a new address!
You can now find The Rambling Epicure at http://www.theramblingepicure.com.
Our new team of writers is a consortium of professional food writers from around the world, providing daily global food news and trends in English, French, Spanish, with some German and Chinese. Our horizons continue to expand and we’d like you to be part of that expansion.
We cover the A to Z of the real food...
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Get ready for my pork chop, fresh fig, mustard...
Spontaneous Cuisine recipe to be published on main The Rambling Epicure site this week.
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Spontaneous Cuisine: Wok-fried wild salmon and...
Dinner Express for Two:
Recipe tomorrow at The Rambling Epicure’s main site.
Get your ingredients ready, recipe tomorrow:
400 g salmon, cut into large cubes
2 ears of fresh corn
350 g French green beans
Garam masala
Organic apple vineger with pulp
