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Real Food Rehab: The Best Tasting Food On Earth

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 04.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Local Food, Sustainable Food, Health, Grocery Stores, Farmers Markets, Santa Monica Farmers Market, Local Farmers, Food Matters, Chicago Farmers Markets, Eating Locally, Food, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Your local farmers' market is where you will find the most beautiful, wonderful tasting, alive, fresh foods you can possibly get your hands on.

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Real Food Rehab: Because Beautiful Food Is Your Birthright

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 03.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Creativity, Healthy Eating, Processed Food, Farmer's Markets, Diet-Fads, Community, Diet, Chicago Farmer's Markets, Joy, Fruits, Eating Matters, Organic Food, Local Food, Health, Nutrition, Food, Eating Well, Real Food, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Eating well is a life skill. It's about learning to trust ourselves, getting back in touch with our instincts and returning to those things that nourish us and give us pleasure. Remember pleasure?

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The Hidden Treasure of Organic Food ... For Some of Us

Alden Loury | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food Allergies, Whole Foods, Organic Food, Food, The Chicago Reporter, Racial Disparities, African Americans, Food Deserts, Auburn Gresham, South Side Farmers Markets, Whole Food Chicago, Chicago Farmers Markets, Organic Food and Race, Chicago Food Deserts, Chicago News
Alden Loury

Grocery stores are pretty sparse in Auburn Gresham, where I live, and many other predominantly black communities on Chicago's South Side.

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The Organic Color Line

The Chicago Reporter | Kelly Virella | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Organic Food Chicago, Chicago Farmers Markets, Organic Food, Englewood, Green Chicago, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Englewood Farmers Market, Organic Racial Divide, Organic Food Race, Chicago News

On a one-acre vegetable farm in Chicago, a bearded, 6 foot, 3 inch-tall black man squats before a bed of green, leafy radishes. Unlike most produce, t...

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After New York & Los Angeles, What Does Chicago Have to Offer a Girl Like Me?

Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 09.05.2008 | Chicago

Read More: East Village, Lincoln Square, Moving to Chicago, Long Distance Relationships, Chicago Farmer's Markets, Lincoln Park, Chicago Skyline, Los Angeles, Venice Beach, Millennium Park, New York City, Marriage, Lula, U Lucky Dawg, Boka, Tom Cruise, Chicago News
Claire Bidwell Smith

My first six months here were brutal. Too broke to splurge on winter clothes, I layered all of my LA outfits on top of each other and shivered through the worst winter Chicago had seen in a decade.

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Green City Market Founder Abby Mandel Dies

Chicago Tribune | Karen Klages | Posted 08.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Local Food, Abby Mandel Dies, Abby Mandel, Green City Market, Chicago Food, Green City Market Founder Dies, Chicago Farmer's Markets, Food Politics, Politics of Food, Chicago News

For those who flock to the now legendary Green City Market Wednesday and Saturday mornings, take a minute to thank the culinary gods for Abby Mandel w...

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