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On this page, I've listed some people and organizations whose work I admire and support.
I hope you find these references useful and informative. I'm sure this list will
grow over time. As usual, feedback and recommendations are most welcome!
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Food And "Stuff"
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Vegetarians in Paradise
A monthly online vegetarian magazine with articles, tips, gardening, recipes, food information,
and more.
www.GlobalGourmet.com
is absolutely THE best culinary site (and it also happens
to be the original one, too, blazing a trail for the rest of us)! It is
edited and largely written by the esteemed Kate Heyhoe, who is highly
regarded in the international professional culinary community (and a friend
of mine). This site is rich and thorough, with many references and great
information. And it changes daily! So bookmark it, and head on over there.
www.DiscussCooking.com
Cooking, food and recipe related forums where
both amateur and professional cooks come
together to chat, share ideas and have fun. Full
of regular contributors and useful info.
Gardeners, Here is a great source of heirloom/organic seeds for you:
www.johnnyseeds.com
The Vegetarian Resource Group
web site contains recipes, nutrition information, books, and articles extracted from their magazine, The
Vegetarian Journal.
Slowfood.com
is the official web site of the Slow Food movement, which began
some years ago in Italy, and has been growing, chapter by chapter, throughout
Europe and the United States. Now with 60,000 members in 35 countries, Slow
Food is an international response to the effects fast food has on our society
and life. It is an institution highly supportive of the integrity of real
foods and of our collective culinary heritage.
Vegetarian Country
is broadcast television, live performance, classes and
internet resources with recipes, contests, and donkey wisdom.
In a Vegetarian Kitchen
An informative vegetarian cooking site with a wide range of topics by Nava
Atlas, full of kitchen wisdom and lots of easy, low-fat recipes.
Healthy Culinary Oils!
Available at these sites: Organic oils mechanically pressed in small batches below 92°F without removing any nutrients and with no preservatives added. www.omegaflo.com www.florainc.com
For roasted nut oils (peanut, hazelnut, macadamia, sesame, sunflower) and infused oils, go to www.loriva.com.
Support Native American business
by purchasing authentic hand-harvested wild rice direct from the source.
People from the Leech Lake reservation still forage wild rice in their canoes,
as they have for thousands of years. This is the real thing, superior in flavor and
competitively priced. For a catalog, call 218/335-8317.
Also, check out www.indianharvest.com
Simple Living
We are creating an international network of like-minded individuals who enjoy sharing their ideas and insights about "simple living" (a.k.a. "voluntary simplicity"). You can use The Simple Living Network to connect with others and learn about new books, tools, services and organizations. http://www.simpleliving.net
Post Carbon Institute
is an Initiative and operating unit of MetaFoundation, a non-profit organization chartered in Portland, Oregon, United States. Post Carbon Institute is an educational institution and think tank that explores in theory and practice what cultures, civilisation, governance & economies might look like without the use of (non-renewable) hydrocarbons as energy and chemical feedstocks. We have operations in Vancouver Canada and Northern California, and are working with community groups (Outposts) in North America.
The Future of Food
This new documentary, created by Deborah Koons Garcia, uses archival footage and interviews with farmers and agriculture experts to weave an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled genetically engineered products that have quietly filled grocery store shelves over the past decade. THE FUTURE OF FOOD lays out a detailed case against genetically engineered crops. Exploring a range of issues from "suicide seeds" to food-safety enforcement laws-and from the controversy over patented genes to contaminated cornfields-the film is a comprehensive and chilling example of a practice that jeopardizes not only our food safety, but the integrity of agriculture itself.
THE FUTURE OF FOOD unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat, and leaves us with a wealth of information and inspiration to take action.
The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC)
is a nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California's Sonoma County. OAEC was founded in 1994 by a group of biologists, horticulturists, educators, activists, and artists seeking innovative and practical approaches to the pressing environmental and economic crises of our day. Much of the Center's work addresses the challenges of creating democratic communities that are ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable in an increasingly privatized and corporatized economy and culture. OAEC's programs combine research, demonstration, education, and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive social change and effective environmental stewardship.
A Great Gift Idea! Funny Veggie Clothing!
For some wonderful vegetable and food-themed T-shirts and other kinds of clothing, some of it beautiful and some it really funny, check out
www.wearablevegetables.com.
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The Grain & Salt Society
It all started with health! And a man with a passion to help people. When Jacques DeLangre
learned about the profound importance of grains and real whole, living salt,
he founded both Happiness Press and The Grain & Salt Society to share
information, ideas, and recipes. This very special, delightful web site
continues his loving legacy. Highly recommended!
Organic Vintners
The best organic wines from around the world! This is the most extensive
selection of the best-tasting international organic wines-including
distinctive varietals never before available in the U.S.
From France to Argentina, Organic Vintners currently offers an
international selection of unique varietals made with 100% certified organic grapes.
Adrian's Caravan - Spices!
For more than 1500 items, including every dried herb and spice (and some fresh ones)
also ethnic condiments, seasonings, and infused oils, check out www.adrianascaravan.com
Organic Produce!
Diamond Organics
For strictly fresh organic fruits and vegetables, plus other organic staples:
www.diamondorganics.com
Frog Hollow
For the world's best mail-order fresh and dried organic fruit: www.froghollow.com. It's a beautiful site!
G Mushrooms
Mushrooms!
To order all sorts of hard-to-find mushrooms and mushroom products (oils and extracts):
www.gmushrooms.com
US Soyfoods Directory
1-800-TALK-SOY
Comprehensive information source about various soy products and
recipes, including a directory of soy foods that meet the new proposed FDA health
claim for soy protein.
Melissa's World Market
Hundreds of exotic ingredients and international staples for
home delivery! Also other useful information.
Food Web
The food site with links, links, links.
The Kitchen Link
is a searchable mega-index to more than 7,000 cooking links on the Net.
TKL is also home to thousands of recipes, moderated food forums on a variety of topics,
Surf For Your Supper menu of the day, foodnews and much more.
VegSource
This is a very thorough web site with all sorts of information for
vegetarians and vegans, with many instant-post message boards, advice,
recipes, political and philosophical articles, lifestyle features, and more.
Highly recommended!
Books for Cooks Online
Comprehensive online source for cookbooks
www.jessicasbiscuit.com
is another great site for locating a wide range of current cookbooks.
www.stickyrice.com
What will they think of next? A whole site devoted to
everything you could ever possibly be interested to know about sushi! This
site is the next best thing to being there.
For Lovers of Fine Rice!
Lotus Foods is a company that finds and packages the most amazing rices from remote
regions of Asia. From region to region the unique soil, water, and growing conditions
combine to produce rices that are flavorful, colorful and aromatic.
These world rices are prized and cellared like fine wine.
I strongly encourage you to check out their web site at
World of Rice, where you'll find a deep
and thorough history of rice as well as information about where to find their sublime products.
An All-Natural Alternative to Sugar
For some interesting information about a relatively new natural product
that enables you to bake sweet things without using sugar, go to
www.stevia.com
Snitow-Kaufman Productions
was formed in 1993 to produce film, video and educational media for the general public on social issues from race relations to globalization to the privatization of water. They are a non-profit, tax-exempt organization based in Berkeley, California.
Andy Singer is a terrific cultural cartoonist and a friend of mine. Check out his insightful, funny work at www.andysinger.com.
The Ladybug Letter
This is a free weekly e-newsletter put out by Andy Griffin (who often writes The Kitchen Table Gazette, here on Mollie Katzen.com) and
Julia Wiley, owners of Mariquita Farm. They started this newsletter in 1999 because they saw a demand for information about where and how food is grown. Please share this link with friends who might also enjoy Andy's writings.
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NUTRITION AND HEALTH INFORMATION
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Harvard School of Public Health Department of Nutrition
Here's a link to the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Nutrition, where some of the leading edge nutrition research is being conducted by Walter Willett, MD and his colleagues and students
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Health and fitness consultant Layna Berman
has a truly informative weekly
show called "Your Own Health and Fitness" on Pacifica radio. I listen to
her every week and I always learn something. You can order tapes of Layna's
terrific work.
Ed Blonz:
nutrition scientist and nationally syndicated columnist.
Andrew Weil, M.D.
has a web site with good information about nutritional
supplements and herbs. He also writes a very sound newsletter, which I
recommend.
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
is a feminist/visionary/physician with a deep sense
of the connection between psychic-emotional and physical health, especially
for women. She is a charming, helpful, and very accessible teacher. Her web
site, while disappointing because it doesn't really contain much information
(it's mostly a PR and selling site), is worth a visit nonetheless, because it
makes all her excellent books and tapes easily available.
www.holisticmedicine.org
www.healthreferral.com
 | The Garden Project
In 1992, The Garden Project was founded with a mission unlike any organization in the country: to provide job training and support to former offenders through counseling and assistance in continuing education, while also impacting the communities from which they come. Today, The Garden Project continues this mission Š innovatively empowering both former offenders and at-risk youth through training and education while transforming the urban environment.
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Organic Foods
Frances Moore Lappé.
"Hope is not what we seek in evidence, itÕs what we become in action."
Frances Moore Lappé
author of Diet for a Small Planet
www.smallplanetinstitute.org
www.smallplanetfund.org
Anna Lappé is a powerful and inspiring food and democracy activist and author. Here's the Web site for her terrific book Grub.
What is GRUB?
1. Grub is healthy, local, sustainable food for all. 2. Grub is food that supports community, justice, and sustainagbility. 3. Grub should be universal.
http://eatgrub.org
Organic Farming and Research Foundation:
Fosters the improvement and widespread adoption of organic
farming practices, by sponsoring reaserch related to organic farming,
disseminating research results to organic farmers and to growers
interested in adopting organic production systems, and educating the
public and decisionmakers about organic farming issues.
P.O.Box 440 Santa Cruz, CA 95061
ph: 408-426-6606
fax: 408-426-
6670
email: research@ofrf.org
Beyond Organic
Beyond Organic is a small public relations and marketing consulting group
serving the progressive agricultural community.
Using a broad network of industry and media contacts, and by developing
creative outreach campaigns, they promote sales of organic products, and
build public awareness about agricultural issues which impact the
environment, family farming and land stewardship. This site has some
wonderful links to organizations working hard to clean up and preserve the
environment.
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Representing over 60 organizations in 25 countries, the International
Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of leading activists,
scholars, economists, researchers and writers convened to stimulate new
thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic
globalization.
The shared concern: that the world's corporate and political leadership
is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may
prove as historically significant as any event since the Industrial
Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous speed, with
little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting democracy,
human welfare, local economies, and the natural world.
Bioneers (Collective Heritage Institute)
The Collective Heritage Institute (CHI), a not-for-profit organization,
conducts education and research in the areas of biodiversity, ecological
farming practices, and restoration. Founded in 1990, CHI projects
include the annual Bioneers Conference, the Restorative Development
Initiative, the Bioneers Public Education Project, and the bi-annual
Collective Heritage Letter (newsletter).
The Blue Planet Project
is an international effort begun by The Council of Canadians to protect
the world's fresh water from the growing threats of trade and
privatization.
Food First /Institute for Food and Development Policy:
A nonprofit research and education-for-action center working to expose the root
causes of hunger and poverty in the U.S. and around the world, and to
educate the public and policymakers about these problems.
 Food and Water, Inc.:
A nonprofit food safety activist organization
spearheading the fight against food irradiation, biotechnology, and
pesticide use. 389 Vermont Route 215, Walden, VT 05873 ph: 1-800-EAT SAFE
US Food and Drug Administration
Visit the official website of the US Food and Drug Administration
for more information about the approved FDA health claim for soy protein.
For some very useful and encouraging information on the widespread
activism that is going on to protect small farms, and to promote
personal, social, and environmental health check out the work that is
being done by the Community Food Security Coalition, a non-profit
501(c)(3), membership-based national coalition of over 600 organizations
and individuals that focus on food and agriculture issues.
Their mission is to bring about lasting social change by promoting
community-based solutions to hunger, poor nutrition, and the
globalization of the food system. They also offer a free referral
service linking groups and individuals interested in community food
security. www.foodsecurity.org
The Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute
is a non-profit agricultural
education and research center working in support of family farmers. With
a focus on crop diversification, the Jefferson Institute provides
farmers with information on how to grow and market alternative crops.
Learn more about the Jefferson
Institute at www.jeffersoninstitute.org/
Environmental Nutrition Bulletin
ph: 212-362-0424 email: envnutr@compuserve.com
Community Alliance with Family Farmers:
Bringing people together for sustainable agriculture. They have a national organic directory: 1-800-852-3832
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