Around theWorld in 80 Diets

In an unusual project, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio, a photographer and writer, traveled the world collecting photos and stories about what people eat in a day. They documented the meager meals of a Masai goat herder, the fast-food diet of an American long-haul trucker and a veritable feast of lamb kebabs and other foods [...]

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Healthy Fruit and Flax Smoothies

Hello everyone! I know it has been awhile but I am back with a few new yummy recipes! This one is for super healthy and delicious flax smoothies. I am currently obssessed with flax as should everyone else be, since it is a fabulous and easy add-in to add lots of extra nutrition to your [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2010 – A Week In Review

Exhausted after what seems like three straight weeks of pure madness (a friends wedding on the Big Island, Eat Local Week, work, work and work), I crawled into bed last night and couldn’t help but think about what fellow Eat Local campaign committee members’ James and Alani had said at our wrap up meeting just [...]

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Putting Your Herb Garden to Work

My little lanai herb garden (consisting of mint, thai and sweet basil, and rosemary) is flourishing.  I love that I can go out there and pick things here and there for a bit of seasoning or a garnish, but beyond that, I find myself wondering what on earth to do with it all.  I got [...]

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Spicy ‘Ahi & Avocado Summer Salad

The long, warm summer days are here and I find myself eating later and later in the evening (9 p.m. last night!) and choosing much lighter food (I have to buy three bags of Ma’o greens from the farmers market just to make it through the week).  With salad combos on my mind, I was [...]

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Top 10 Mistakes Made by Farmers Market Noobz – Huffington Post

Not a farmers market regular? Here’s a great article from Huffington Post with some tips on how to become one. Read it HERE

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Healthy Eating

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Pizza!

I thought that I would share these pictures of the pizzas that we made in my cooking class on Monday. Each group made a different kind of pizza and I thought that they all looked beautiful! Our Professor/Chef taught us a great trick. Generously sprinkle cornmeal on the bottom of your baking sheet to prevent [...]

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Food Rules by Michael Pollan

I came across these Food Rules by Michael Pollan, author of several books on healthy eating (An Omnivore’s Dilemma, and most recently Food Rules to name a few), and thought they were worth sharing.  Honest and succinct, we should all incorporate these into our daily lives (says the girl who just ate a glazed donut [...]

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Healthy Bacon Recipes

We’ve all heard it before – everything is better with bacon.  I’m not gonna disagree with this statement, but personally things like bacon wrapped pork chops have never really appealed to me.  Looking through my emails today I found one from Food & Wine that was sent on April Fools…and is full of healthy recipes [...]

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