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Ode to Local Farms and Pablo Neruda

Anne Z. Boxer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Pablo Neruda, Csas, Tomatoes, Organic Farms, Locavore, Boulder, Local Food, Vegetables, Colorado University, Poetry, Denver News
Anne Z. Boxer

We bought a community supported agriculture share early in the spring. We are now more committed to eating locally and more understanding of how difficult that will be even in the nirvana of Boulder.

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How To Can And Preserve For Winter (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Home Cooking, Canning, Organic Food, Fruit, Summer, Veggies, Vegetables, Canned Fruit, Canned Veggies, Diy Green, Eating Healthy, Peaches, Basil, Farmers Market, Farm, Tomatoes, Green Living, Food, Green News

Farm-fresh fruits and veggies make the summer scrumptious. So keep the summer flavors coming all winter with these delicious canning videos. Make sure...

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The Top 10 Foods for Great Sex

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Artichokes, Sexual-Function, Oysters, Whole Grains, Olive Oil, Chili Peppers, Soy, Chia Seeds, Casanova, Sexual Performance, Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Sex, Cialis, Garlic, Viagra, Dark Chocolate, Tomatoes, Living News
Christina Pirello

Wining and dining a date will more likely result in a great night's sleep rather than a great romp in the sack. To really get things going, you need to stimulate your 'circuitry,' your nervous and circulatory systems.

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A Blight On Summer: Where Have All the Tomatoes Gone?

Michele Kayal | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Pink Lady, Early Girl, Beefsteak, Blight, Brandywine, Cherry Tomato, Guide, Farmers Market, Summer, Recipes, Water, Tomato Blight, Food, Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, Tomatoes, Heirloom, Healthy Food, Fresh Vegetables, Vegetables, Yellow-Pear, Living News
Michele Kayal

This weekend I was asked to pass judgment on tomatoes. Which is far better than water because a) they have an actual taste, and b) good tomatoes are so hard to come by.

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Green News Report - August 13, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Town Hall Debate, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Sustainable Food, American Petroleum Institute, Department of Interior, Obama Administration, Sustainable Agriculture, Green News Report, Coal, Oil Companies, Mountaintop Removal, National Association of Manufacturers, Town Halls, Green News, Sustainability, Tomato-Blight, Buffer Zone, Astroturf, Tomatoes, Green Roofs, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Another win for coal companies; of green roofs & red tomatoes...PLUS: Town Hall Follies, now with Clean Coal!

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Living Without Abundant Tomatoes

nytimes.com | By Mark Bittman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Chefs, Tomato Blight Northeast, Local Food, Tomato-Blight, Tomatoes, Green News

Customers keep going into Applewood, a restaurant in Park Slope, and asking for a tomato martini. The drink, made with onion-infused vodka, muddled to...

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Dan Barber's Op-Ed On The Tomato Blight

nytimes.com | DAN BARBER | Posted 09.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Organic Gardening, Local Food, Dan Barber, Food Politics, Tomato Blight, Gardening, Potato Blight, Tomatoes, Green News

Of course, farmers aren't the only ones affected. If you love eating flavorful organic field tomatoes, good luck -- they'll be as rare this summer as ...

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Go Green, Quit Exercising

Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 08.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Bicycling, Tomatoes, Solar Ovens, Urban Gardening, Exercise, Gym, Green Living, Green News
Rebekah and Stephen Hren

With so much work to be done to make our world a sustainable place, does it make any kind of sense to be expending precious calories in so wanton a matter?

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Do Tomatoes Hate Men?

Telegraph | Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Tomatoes, Food, Green News

Talking to plants makes them grow, especially if you are a woman, according to an experiment by the Royal Horticultural Society. Women gardeners' voic...

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The Secret -- I Saw, Close-up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Charlie Crist, Florida, Slavery, Farmworkers, Wages, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Food, Tomatoes, Economy, Working-Conditions, Politics News
Frances Moore Lappe

Why do I call this modern-day form of slavery and its legal face -- this kind of gross injustice -- the secret of today's imploding economies?

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Veggie PR Spokesmom Tanya Steel on Julia Child, Snickers, and the Home Chef

Louise McCready | Posted 10.16.2009 | Style

Read More: London, Tanya Steel, French Toast, Snickers, Julia Child, Food, Tomatoes, Super Bowl, Edy's, Tea, British, New York, Style News
Louise McCready

"A big point of my book is teaching kids how to love vegetables. Parents need to say, 'Oh my God, these vegetables are so good.'"

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The Tomato, the Banker, and the Alderman

Flora Lazar | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Leon Despres, Vegetables, Farmers Markets, Food, Gardening, Hyde Park, Ron Grzywinski, Tomatoes, Community Development, Shorebank, Socially Responsible Investing, Urban Gardening, Leaon Despres Tomato, Hyde Park Gardening, Despres Tomato, Chicago News
Flora Lazar

The Despres Tomato's characteristic thin skin and fragility are probably not a reflection of the 100-year-old alderman who was known throughout his career for his tenacity.

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What's Fair Got to Do with the Price of Green Tomatoes?

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Labor, Labor Day, Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Food, Melody Gonzalez, Slow Food Nation, Farmworkers, Tomatoes, Fair Food, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

One group is moving ahead with a campaign to pressure corporations to pay a little more (a penny a pound, to be exact) for tomatoes. And they're winning.

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You Say Tomato, I Say Heirloom

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Slow Food Chicago Heirloom Tomato Festival, Local Produce, Food, Green Living, Tomatoes, Local Farmers, Fsustainable Food, Slow Food Organization, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Green Zebras, Mortgage Lifters, White Wonders, and other heirloom tomato varieties are taking American palates by storm this week. At least 52 San Fra...

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With Liberty And Fresh Tomatoes For All

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 08.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Black in America, Healthy Canned Options, Tomatoes, The Balanced Life, Healthy on a Budget, Healthy Diet, Living News
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent

A couple weekends ago, we found ourselves glued to an unsettling CNN special called "Blacks in America." One thing that instantly struck a cord with ...

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Vegetable Profiling: Tomatoes See Red

Suzette Standring | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Police, Fda, Jalapenos, Profiling, Food, Salmonella, Salsa, Prejudice, Tomatoes, Outbreak, Poisoning, Living News
Suzette Standring

Tomatoes are seeing red at being wrongly blamed as the contamination cause of a national Salmonella outbreak. Now jalapeno peppers have replaced tomatoes as the possible culprit.

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Salmonella: Jalapenos, Probably Not Tomatoes, At Fault

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Salmonella, Tomatoes, Jalapenos, JalapeñOs, Salmonella Scare, Fda, Salmonella Outbreak, Business News

WASHINGTON — Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria strain on a singl...

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Tomato Growers Report Salmonella Scare Damages Industry

AP | STEVE SZKOTAK | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Tomatoes, Salmonella Tomatoes, Tomatoes Salmonella, Tomato Industry, Tomato Farmers, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. — The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbrea...

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FDA Lifts Tomatoes Salmonella Warning

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Salmonella, Tomatoes, Fda, Fda Salmonella Warning, Fda Tomatoes Salmonella, Tomatoes Salmonella Warning Lifted, Living News

WASHINGTON — It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared Thursday _ lifting its salmonella warning on the summer fa...

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Lou Dobbs Stomps Out the Smoldering Match

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Lou Dobbs, Dobbs Impeachment, Dobbs Impeach Bush, Tomatoes, Media News
Robert J. Elisberg

Lou Dobbs is a bright, thoughtful, concerned and caring. The shame is that too often he tends to get distracted from using those qualities together when a microphone is placed before him.

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Something Is (Still) Rotten In Food Oversight

Al Meyerhoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Food and Drug Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Tomatoes, Florida Tomatoes, E.Coli, Politics News
Al Meyerhoff

From spinach to tomatoes, E.coli to salmonella, despite public uproar, congressional hearings and industry promises, nothing really has changed but the bug and the vegetable (fruit actually).

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Dobbs: Impeach Bush Over Tomatoes

Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Impeachment, Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tomato Scare, Salmonella Tomatoes, Fda, Salmonella Scare, Tomatoes, Impeach Bush, Dan Abrams, Beat the Press, Impeach, Media News

Thursday night, Lou Dobbs called for George Bush's impeachment over his mismanagement of the Food and Drug Administration which has, in Dobbs' view, u...

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Our Food Sucks And You Know It

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Food, Vegetarian, Fda, Tomatoes, Green News
Allison Kilkenny

Americans can't fix their unhealthy eating until supposedly "healthy" food is clean of bacteria originating in diseased cows.

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Tomatoes Coming Off Of Some Menus Due To Salmonella Scare

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Salmonella Restaurants, California Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Florida Tomatoes, Business News

Top restaurant chains are taking some tomatoes off the menu, hoping to avoid the tomato Salmonella scare. ...

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Salmonella In Tomatoes: It Wasn't California Or Florida

Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Mcdonald's Tomatoes, Salmonella Outbreak, Salmonella Tomatoes, Salmonella, California Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Florida Tomatoes, Business News

Tomatoes grown in California and Florida are safe to eat, according to U.S. health officials investigating a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 167...

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