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Slow Eggs from Native Chicken Get Attention Again

3:32 am in 100 mile diet, agriculture, awards, birds, Design & Architecture, eggs, food, Food & Health, food miles, local food, organic agriculture, spain by TreeHugger

laVinyeta outocton local eggs photo Image Credit: Lluís Serra Pla In and around Barcelona slow food and local delicatessen have become quite the thing lately. Projects like the slow food restaurant Fastvínic or the happy pig farm Finca del Saüc are popping up like mushrooms. Via the blog Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Study Comparing Local To Meat-Free Diet Is Dated and Debunked

3:35 pm in 100 mile diet, food, food miles, local food by TreeHugger

foodmiles-original-study.jpg Note date on original study, linked to in articles All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet. There are are, however, a couple of problems; a) the study on which the article is based ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Slow Food Gets Fast, Meets Good Design at Fastvinic, an Eco-Cozy Sandwich Shop

9:44 am in 100 mile diet, bathroom, composting, decorating, Design & Architecture, designers, dining room, energy efficiency, food, Food & Health, food miles, green building, interiors, leed, local food, materials, recycled building materials, restaurant, shelving, spain, storage, toilets by TreeHugger

fastvinic green interior design restaurant local food photo Image Credit: Fastvínic The other day I had a delicious local sandwich in the fabulous new space Fastvínic in Barcelona. It seems the Catalan capital has finally got a place where fast slow food meets good design (and not hippyness). What's on the menu? Sandwiches. What's around you? Beautiful <...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Real Food Festival Delivers the Real Thing from Small Producers

5:06 am in botanical, Business & Politics, farmers markets, food, Food & Health, food miles, food safety, local food, organic agriculture, recipes by TreeHugger

real food photo Photo: B. Alter The Real Food Festival is a chance to meet the small, artisanal producers of some of the food that we love to buy. They are the little guys who are trying to create a revolution in packaged food. They want to use pure, sometimes organic, ingredients but still sell to a larger market. And they are here to meet that public. Their stories are inspirational and all of them include a big serving of hard work to make a buck....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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