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Judge in Adelson lawsuit subject to unusual scrutiny amid Review-Journal sale
Just over a month before Sheldon Adelson's family was revealed as the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, three reporters at the newspaper received an unusual assignment passed down from the...
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What’s In Season Can Be Found at Green City Market Plus Other Places Too
Get all the fixin’s for your eat local holiday at Green City Market all these stores or the other places listed below. In addition look to Jeannie’s Local Calendar for all there to know to lead the...
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Horsepower vs Horse Power: Which Wins?
When it comes to agriculture, some farmers rely on the most modern tools available to produce their crops, but there’s a growing number who are choosing draft horses over tractors to help them get the...
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Resistance to a Last-Ditch Antibiotic: Invisible Spread
Last night, the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, which carried the initial report of resistance to the last-ditch drug colistin, published five letters from researchers announcing they too have...
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Perfect Pumpkin Pie: One Woman's Quest For Custard, Crust
There are so many opportunities to screw up pumpkin pie. But done right, it can win friends and influence people. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption It was the best of pies, it was the worst of pies. I...
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Is the EPA downplaying pesticide risks?
The miracle of American agriculture — an amazing abundance of food — is possible because of another miracle that isn't so beneficial: powerful weedkillers. These chemical compounds — such as Monsanto's...
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The Feiring Line is the only newsletter that focuses solely on natural, organic and biodynamic wines from the ground up. Perfect for geek as well as the new enthusiast. Because this is a newsletter...
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6 Permaculture Techniques Beyond Gardening
So you’ve started a permaculture garden and planted some powerhouse plants. Did you know that permaculture goes beyond the yard? "Permaculture isn't the garden, though gardening is certainly part of...
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The Top 5 Food Problems Americans Want the Next President to Fix
Those who tuned in to the first round of presidential debates hoping to hear a discussion of food and nutrition were sorely disappointed. In fact, food has been largely absent from the entire race so...
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Eric Schlosser on the People Behind Our Food
When Eric Schlosser pitched Fast Food Nation to publishers in 1999, they balked. No one would buy a food book that didn’t include recipes, they said. Schlosser eventually found a publisher willing to...
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Shit is about to get real in California, El Niño report predicts
After four years of drought, Californians are bracing for another potentially destructive weather event: El Niño. Earlier this week, FEMA released a disaster plan including what to expect from the...
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Editor’s Note: 2015 Was a Big Year for Food & Farming News
We’ve had another fantastic year of reporting at Civil Eats and I’m so grateful for the outstanding work of managing editor, Twilight Greenaway, our new senior editor, Anna Roth, our social media...
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Pepsi has made it almost impossible to find out whom it gives money to
This past fall, in the wake of a New York Times investigation, Coca-Cola released a list of all the organizations to which it had made donations for research and advocacy over the past five years. On...
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Sacramento Urban Farmer to Start Food Academy after Visit to Milan
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Commentary: Threat of Beverage Industry Enough to Roll the Mayor Off Soda Tax...
Many were stunned to see Mayor Dan Wolk bail on his signature issue just two weeks after a coalition that included his mother, Senator Lois Wolk, along with Dr. Harold Goldstein, former Assemblymember...
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Feeling the Heat, Le Cordon Bleu Is Closing Its U.S. Cooking Schools
My, how the times are changing: following a period of massive enrollment increases during the recession, for-profit operator Career Education Corporation announced Wednesday that it would close all 16...
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How the Mast Brothers fooled the world into paying $10 a bar for crappy...
Whether you’ve seen their beautifully wrapped bars for sale at Shake Shack or Rag & Bone, featured in the pages of the New York Times or Vogue, or decorating one of their New York, London, or soon,...
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FDA Wants More Information on Caffeinated Peanut Butter Safety
STEEM is a caffeinated peanut butter being sold in retail stores and online. Its makers say that STEEM is made with natural peanut butter and contains no artificial sweeteners. “Oh, and as much...
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How America’s Top Junk-Food City Went on a Diet (and Fattened Its Economy)
OKLAHOMA CITY — On April 22, 1889, at the firing of a pistol, 10,000 men, women and children rushed into the Indian Territories to claim pieces of the land that overnight became Oklahoma City. Some...
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School program pushes for more N.Y.-grown cafeteria food
City schools boss Carmen Fariña announced a new program to introduce more locally grown and produced foods to public school cafeterias Thursday. The program, New York Thursdays, aims to bring more food...
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