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What if….Walmart, Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue or your local department store took the issue of seafood sustainability seriously? Hard to imagine? Urge your store manager to book a flight to London between May 11 and June 12 to visit Selfridges, the swank London department store. It is giving its entire space over to Project Ocean,…
Just as microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh is fighting to keep his position, Boston Beer is launching a microfinance project in the US. Samuel Adams and ACCION USA have partnered to help food, beverage and hospitality small business owners in New England, Ohio, and the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania with the…
It turns out, Willa Cather’s books are full of characters cooking and eating
Will it become “Inagate” or blow over? Ina Garten repeatedly turned down the wish of a Make-A-Wish six-year old (Enzo by name) cancer patient to meet -– and now she has been branded the “Heartless Contessa” in the press. Nasty comments are running rampant -– though Ina has not commented on her decision. Should the…
