Posted in AnnArbor.com, Health on February 26, 2011
This is the bowl of oatmeal shown on the McDonalds website page – a page that has its own jaunty “oatmeal” tune. Why do we care that McDonalds has introduced “oatmeal” with more calories than their hamburger and with more sugar than a Snickers bar? I put “oatmeal” in quotes because, according to Mark Bittman’s [...]
Posted in Farm to Fork, On Food… on February 21, 2011
Selma Cafe is a local-foods breakfast salon began in February 2009, founded and hosted by Lisa Gottlieb and Jeff McCabe, organized these past six months by Gottlieb, as McCabe has focused on the farming initiatives. The first time my husband and I went to Selma Cafe, we arrived at 6:25 a.m. so he could be at [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Genetically Modified Food, Miracles on February 19, 2011
Photo courtesy of TEDxManhattan Flickr Organized by The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming, the brochure described TEDxManhattan: “Changing the Way we Eat” as “an awe-inspiring, all day TEDx event focused on sustainable food and farming.” I was in awe to be able to attend the event in NYC on Feb. 12. As we settled [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Backyard Chickens on February 18, 2011
I returned Wednesday to Ann Arbor from a week away. I left town with snowdrifts and nary a sight of grass or earth anywhere. I return to puddles, calcifying stalagmites of gray snow forms and soil once again visible in our back garden. The soft breeze and the smell of warming earth enveloped me on [...]
Posted in Health, Live Strong on February 7, 2011
For once was a teenager, in that maelstrom of high school Carnations on lockers, pressure from sideways She never felt that cool In college, E sent her an anonymous Valentine letter and every year that aged teenager’s heart glows as she sits and addresses her stack of endeavors Happy February!!!
