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Blog: Eating from your own backyard

May 10, 2010

By Claire Armstrong The identical cookie-cutter shapes of bite-sized meats, fruit juices that contain little or no fruit or even vegetable juices that contain more fructose corn syrup than carrots or tomatoes.  We call this food? Walking down the aisles of the common grocery store, these foods become glamorized by the shiny packaging, catchy advertisements, [...]

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Slow Food movement making waves in KC

May 6, 2010

By Tanner Randall “Shake the hand that feeds you.” Michael Pollan’s phrase from, In Defense of Food, brings attention to the subject of who or what is really feeding us. For Americans living at an accelerated pace, obtaining food has gone from growing a garden and shopping at the local farmers market, to driving up [...]

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