ENLIGHTENED DIET: What The Best Organic Chefs Do Online.While most contemporary food movements embrace a return to more sustainable methods of farming and simple, authentic food-preparation practices, many of today's best professional chefs are adept at navigating the high-tech world of food websites. We asked a few for their favorites: Ann Gentry Gentry has spent 25 years raising the standards of vegetarian cooking. A vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. chef, owner of the Real Food Daily restaurants in Southern California and author of an accompanying cookbook, she regularly visits: Wellness Information: veria.com Food News: sustainablefoodnews.com Stu Stein The Pacific Northwest's Stu Stein, author of The Sustainable Kitchen, is inexorably drawn to small-scale agriculture initiatives, local economies, and regional food supplies that benefit both growers and consumers. It's no surprise that his Web activity centers around: Sustainability: sustainabletable.org News: sustainableindustries.com Nora Pouillon Pouillon, chef and owner of Restaurant Nora, the nation's first certified organic restaurant, relies on the newsletters from: Food News: slowfood.com Organic Trade: ota.com Nutrition: environmentalnutrition.com News about Women's Health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. : health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Womens_Health_Watch.htm Jessica Prentice Finally, it's great to hear from an expert on the lunar cycles of the agrarian year. In her acclaimed book, Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection, Jessica Prentice asks readers to center their diets around what's available locally. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , be more connected to the seasons and your region and also strive to be more sensitive to your body, because there is a reason that certain foods taste better at certain times of the year. Prentice, who teaches workshops to help people develop practical skills as well as to inspire them to cook, recently created a local foods wheel for the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden area and is working on wheels for other regions. She writes her own New Moon newsletter (see WiseFoodWays.com) and finds the Internet most useful for researching recipes. She loves the following two sites: Gourmet News: epicurious.com Recipes: recipezaar.com Not surprisingly, the four luminaries also made a point of listing their favorite books and authors. Prentice called Madhur Jaffrey Madhur Jaffrey (Hindi: मधुर जाफरी madhur jāphrī; born August 13, 1933) is an Indian actress, who has also found fame as a food writer, introducing the Western world to the many cuisines of India. , author of World Vegetarian, her favorite author and included Ayurveda: A Life of Balance by Maya Tiwari on her most-loved list, along with Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions. Pouillon is currently reading Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products by Mark Schapiro, and she recently finished Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn Theo Colborn is a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesvillle, and President of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TDEX), based in Paonia, Colorado. She is an environmental health analyst, and best known for her studies on the health effects of endocrine . Pouillon, Gentry, and Stein all mentioned the award-winning The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. Matt Sutherland |
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