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How-To: Have a Healthy Lunch

Foods that will satisfy and energizeby Katie Cavuto-Boyle MS, RDAs the quest for healthy food in the cafeteria continues, consider taking the matter of feeding your children (and yourself) into your own hands. We asked Philly food celebrity Katie Cavuto-Boyle for some guidelines to help us make the brown bag delicious and nutritious.

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Feature: The More They Know, the Better They’ll Eat

Involving young students is a key piece to the nutrition puzzleby Alex Mulcahy and Stephanie Singer
Around the world, there is a movement towards reconnecting people with how food is grown and produced. Empowering our youngest citizens may be our strongest strategy to create a healthier world.

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In Season: Peppers

Fresh. Local. Seasonal.For Philadelphians, eating local means enjoying a late summer harvest of eggplants, tomatoes, cantaloupe, sweet corn, okra, beets, carrots, snap peas, turnips, potatoes and watermelon. Oh, and peppers.

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Book Review: What to Eat

What to Eatby Marion NestleNorth Point Press; $16
Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and nutrition professor at New York University, has been fighting the good food fight for years now, and her latest book continues her critical approach to what we put in our bodies. What to Eat sounds like a question, and the book

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Book Review: Food Matters

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipesby Mark BittmanSimon & Schuster; $24.95
Mark Bittman has been many things in the world of food: chef, traveler, writer and, now, advocate. With Food Matters, Bittman has come around to the sustainable food movement and offers a book with a mixture of the stick

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Recipe: Local Ingredients at Cafe Estelle

Taste the homestyle flavor at this open-kitchen eateryby Stephanie Singer
On the evening that his grandmother, Estelle, passed away, Marshall Green told her that he would open a restaurant and name it after her. That promise was fulfilled on November 1, 2007, when Café Estelle opened its doors. Located between Spring Garden and Callowhill Streets, the

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Book Review: Edible Schoolyard

Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Ideaby Alice WatersChronicle; $24.95When Alice Waters used to drive by the Martin Luther King Jr. middle school near her neighborhood in Berkeley, CA, she thought it was deserted. The schoolyard looked abandoned, overgrown with weeds and cracked concrete. After mentioning the use—or rather, misuse—of vacant land in a newspaper article about

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