I opened a couple of cans of Muir Glen tomatoes last night, and noticed that the lining of the cans looked different. So I poked around on their website and found this:
MUIR GLEN TOMATOES TRANSITIONING TO CAN LINERS THAT DO NOT USE BPA ( Read more... )

Just in time for the new year, Michael Pollan has come out with a new book, this one a pocket-sized distillation of some of the ideas and conclusions from The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food.

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual is a quick guide with 64 common-sense reminders about what to eat and how to eat, such as Avoid food products that ( Read more... )

In scary news, a new report from Consumer Reports talks about levels of Bisphenol A (BPA-the chemical that had people switching from plastic water bottles to stainless steel ones) showing up in a variety of canned foods: Concern over canned foods.
Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have ( Read more... )

I just found a good website for eating fish sustainably. It caters to the UK and US.

http://fish2fork.com/blog/

Also, if you're in the UK, there is a great chain of restaurants called Loch Fyne: They specialize in sustainable seafood and their food is excellent.

Mighty Appetite, a food blog for The Washington Post, has been running a challenge called Eating Down The Fridge. It's a week-long kitchen challenge of abstaining from food shopping, and using up what’s in the fridge, freezer and kitchen cabinets ( Read more... )

Mark Bittman talks about eating seafood responsibly: Loving Fish, This Time With the Fish in Mind.

And you can watch the trailer for the new movie The End of the Line, a documentary about the consequences of overfishing, at the website here.

For a limited time, Pepsi is offering Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, both made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

Pepsi's not alone-here's an interesting Slate piece about HFCS in our food culture: Dark Sugar.

Carbon Food Print

About a quarter, or 8.1 tons, of the average U.S. family's annual 38-ton carbon dioxide footprint comes from food. When engineers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, looked at how these food-linked emissions are generated, they found that although we typically transport comestibles long distances, the bulk ( Read more... )

In April, online marketplace etsy.com is going to be focusing on all things green:
Our celebration of April, “La Primavera,” focuses on spring lifestyles, horticultural and garden themes, cooking, artisanal foods, recipes, celebrations, our loved ones, an introduction to the outdoors, materials, senses, and a special salute to Earth Day on April ( Read more... )

For any of us in the process of cleaning out and restocking our pantries or thinking about signing up for CSAs, here's an interesting piece from Tara Parker-Pope last summer about The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating:
1. Beets: Think of beets as red spinach, Dr. Bowden said, because they are a rich source of folate as well as natural red pigments ( Read more... )