August 2010

Why I Became a Vegan

August 31, 2010

For three and a half years I was a vegan. This is the story of how it all started; you can read about why I quit, too. When I think back to college, there are a lot of memories that stand out – the layout of the campus and town surrounding it, my two different [...]

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Activia Dessert Coupon Offer

August 31, 2010

Like yogurt? Like dessert? A new yogurt product, called Activia Dessert, is now in stores, in the following flavors: Vanilla Bean, Strawberry Cheesecake, Blueberry Cheesecake, and Peach Cobbler. To save a dollar on your purchase, Activia Dessert is offering a coupon. While I haven’t tried these yogurts yet, I’d do the following: 1. Open the [...]

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Choose Farm Stands for Local Food

August 29, 2010

If you haven’t done so yet, don’t forget to enter the Oikos giveaway to win a package of prizes. It’s open until Monday night at 11pm EST. There’s been a lot of buzz about local foods lately, ever since Stephen Budiansky’s op-ed piece in the New York Times on the local food interest as being a moot point; he [...]

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Greek Yogurt Giveaway and Review from Oikos

August 28, 2010

Stonyfield Farms is one of my favorite companies: they sell organic yogurt to a number of vendors, and are one of the top yogurt sellers in the country, really getting organics into the mainstream. In recent years, they’ve begun a line called Oikos, an organic Greek yogurt, which comes in a variety of flavors and [...]

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Thinking Back to Mexico and Belize

August 25, 2010

The cold weather must be getting to me. It’s not even September, but I have that chilled-to-the-bone sort of feeling, since we’re in a stretch of rainy, dreary days. Not enough cups of tea or brisk walks are doing the trick to warm me up, so instead, I’ll take some time to daydream… In December 2008, [...]

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Car Camping & Camping Food

August 24, 2010

Back when I recalled our trip to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, I wrote that we went car camping, and many of you asked, “What is car camping?” Sure, there’s backpacking – which involves hiking through the woods with enough gear to take shelter and eat for one or more nights. And there’s camping, with [...]

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The Trouble with Cheap Food

August 22, 2010

Last month I finished reading Gabriel Thompson’s Working in the Shadows, a book that documents Thompson’s year-long trial of working with legal and illegal immigrants in America. He makes a pact with himself to spend at least two months working in areas typically dominated by immigrants, in three different areas of the United States: lettuce harvesting in [...]