A United States freeway may seem an unlikely place to reflect on love, but each spring, I get that familiar wrenching of the heart that signals to me that I’m witnessing a lack of love. Each spring, my resources of joy are replenished by the sight of the greening earth, lush with grass, garlanded in [...]

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Regular readers will know that our publication has repeatedly criticized the Whole Foods Corporation for failing to walk their talk in so many ways. Today, we want to take a moment to honor this powerful entity for announcing mandatory GMO labeling on foods it carries by 2018. Please, read the whole article I’ve linked to [...]

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I’m sure your days are busy, like mine. You may be on your feet a lot, or in your car zipping here or there, or doing work you don’t particularly like. Here is a task, though, with which you can sit down, slow down and concentrate on simple, important work that goes toward preparing a [...]

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Last summer, we came across a new brand of gluten free pasta, and though wary from our previous experience with other brands of GF pasta, we gave Jovial’s Gluten Free Capellini a try and were totally surprised. Whereas other brands had disappointed us with off tastes and odd textures to the point that one sampling [...]

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I don’t know how public school teachers are handling this today, but when I was a child, the folklore associated with the Thanksgiving holiday fostered in my mind a harmonious image of friendship and feasting between the hungry, struggling pilgrims and the kindly, generous Indians. What was, of course, overlooked in the teachings and celebrations [...]

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Today, I am deeply saddened by California Prop 37′s failure to pass. It’s a sorrowful thing that a little more than half the voting public of California allowed the multi-million dollar corporate ad campaign to fool them into giving up the right to know what they’re eating, but as the old adage says, “You can [...]

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Because you eat, California’s Prop 37 matters to you. A No vote on Prop 37 means you’re volunteering to eat blindfolded and don’t care what a stranger is about to put in your mouth. A Yes vote on Prop 37 means you want the blindfold removed and want to see what you’re eating, before it [...]

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At the close of World War II, American housewives became the target of a barrage of advertising for frozen, canned and packaged foods, marketed on the concept of convenience and the insinuation that no woman had the time to cook from scratch anymore. Industrial food processes invented during the war for soldiers needed to find [...]

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All You Need Is 4 Ingredients!!! I have seldom been more excited to share a recipe with you than I am right now! Just look at this photo of light and lacy gluten free pancakes, made of oat flour, 100% vegan, drizzled with maple syrup, and utterly delicious. Ever since my local natural foods store [...]

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I’ve been a Whole Foods customer ever since they replaced the closest local independent natural foods store. I value them for a few things – pretty reasonable prices on the few packaged foods we buy such as olive oil, maple syrup and gluten free pasta, but their produce section has come to be a matter [...]

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