Cupcakes for Gamers
To get back in the swing of blogging, I thought I’d start off with something easy and fun. To ring in the New Year, this group of people combined their two passions (which I happen to share): cupcakes and games. They made individual cupcakes honoring 100 different games that ran the gamut from board games [...]
June 6, 2010
Tags: blogs, heroes, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts 
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Finally An Intelligent Move: RIP Smart Choices
After creating quite a stir in the foodie blogosphere, the mainstream media, and even riling up the lethargic FDA, the industry led Smart Choices label is voluntarily suspending the promotion of its program. Â They even had the Attorney General of Connecticut after them–Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that he was investigating the program and some [...]
October 26, 2009
Tags: blogs, change, education, FDA, Health, heroes, nutrition, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology 3 Comments
Great Food Politics Blogs
Parke Wilde teaches graduate level courses in food policy and statistics at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Â Along with some of his graduate students, he keeps the U.S. Food Policy.
He recently wrote a sort of ‘top ten’ list of food policy blogs for blogs.com:
In this list, he looked beyond [...]
October 7, 2009
Tags: blogs, education, food, Health, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health 2 Comments
Nagging Questions Gives You The Answers
I found a great food trivia column at chow.com called Nagging Questions. Searching through the list of questions author Roxanne Webber has already asked, I found myself thinking Yeah, why is that? a lot. Questions that had not ever nagged before, suddenly were. There were questions like how does packaged guacamole stay [...]
June 24, 2009
Tags: blogs, education, food, trivia Posted in: Fun Food Facts No Comments
KFC Challenge: 0, Home-Made Meals: 1
I don’t know about you, but I am tired of fast-food restaurants billing themselves as the go-to answer for all of our food concerns. Take the recent string of commercials by KFC: they challenge an “average family” to procure items needed to make a KFC dinner at lower cost than at the restaurant. Needless to say, the family is stumped. [...]
December 8, 2008
Tags: blogging, blogs, fast-food, marketing, moms, nutrition Posted in: Health, Uncategorized No Comments
The Hunger Challenge–Could You Live On $21 a Week?
Lessons for Us All:
The Hunger Challenge:
Taking the Hunger Challenge meant living for a week on the same budget allotted to those in the Food Stamp program. Gayle Keck, from the San Francisco Food Bank, challenged bloggers and politicians alike to eat healthily and to not go hungry on $21 over 7 days, which is about [...]
December 3, 2008
Tags: blogging, blogs, moms, nutrition, policy Posted in: Health, Politics 5 Comments
Moms Blog for McDonald’s
McDonald’s is taking a hint from mainstream media when it comes to reinventing itself as the go-to place for busy Moms. While mainstream media asked, “who would you rather have a beer with?” to determine a candidates trustworthiness, McDonald’s is asking, “who would you make a play date with?” Beginning last year, McDonald’s has been [...]
November 22, 2008
Tags: blogging, blogs, fast-food, food, Health, marketing, McDonald's, moms Posted in: Health No Comments
