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Food artisans from around the country were honored at the second annual Good Food Awards, which celebrate American food producers, who enhance the country's agricultural landscape and help to build community. On Friday, we hit up the awards ceremony, where a veritable who's who of the food industry, from Alice Waters to Ruth Reichl, spoke to the importance of heirloom products, and where we had a Read more
This weekend, food artisans from around the country are being honored in the second annual Good Food Awards, which celebrate American food producers who enhance the country's agricultural landscape and help to build community. While the awards are relatively new to the gastronomic landscape, they're already backed by some of the country's biggest food influencers, such as Whole Foods, and seminal Read more
Get to know your bitters better. — The Epi-Log Here's a rich vegetarian soup recipe. — The Atlantic Would you drink whiskey in a can? — Eater Alice Waters and Bruce Aidells are just a few people who attended the Good Food Awards. — Grub Street SF Chef Alain Ducasse is mentoring 15 underprivileged woman and teaching them how to cook. — The New York Times A new Kraft kiosk scans your Read more
Taste tested: Taco Bell's Beefy Crunch Burrito. — Serious Eats Even without access to LA school cafeterias, Jamie Oliver pushes on. — Eater Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters will host the first Good Food Awards this weekend. — Grub Street SF Dining at Ina Garten's house. — The Hungry Beast Sustainable seafood ratings: are they all just marketing baloney? — Salon Food Warm up this Winter Read more
We are pumped to share one of our favorite stories from Self here on FitSugar! Barre classes may make you easy on the eyes, but at $20 or more a pop, they're definitely not easy on the wallet. Rather than take a second job to pay for our latest fitness addiction, we turned to Beverly Hill-based Cardio Barre instructor Stacey Bosworth to get the inside scoop on scoring a long, lean dancer's body Read more
If you're itching for a culinary adventure, there's no need to leave your home! Escape to Avery Island for a crawfish feast with Food Orleans. This was my lunch. I ate it all. Avery Island is a gorgeous place; it's surrounded by a long lace of bayous, has plenty of wildlife roaming around freely (deer, bears, raccoons, alligators), and houses the beautiful Jungle Gardens and Bird Sanctuary. Read more
We had a great time at the second annual Good Food Awards last Friday in the San Francisco Ferry Building. Listening to Ruth Reichl and all of the winners talk with so much passion about what they do was incredibly inspiring. We managed to Instagram our way through the whole event (we told you we're obsessed!). Check out our favorite behind-the-scenes shots, and don't forget to follow heyyumsugar Read more
Tara O'Brady runs the beautiful and well-respected blog Seven Spoons. Her work has been nominated for countless awards, and I, for one, am endlessly inspired each time I visit her blog. Tara doesn't have formal training, although she comes from a fine arts background, but her love of the art came from experimenting and telling stories on her own website. Her food photos are straightforward, Read more
We weren't the only ones to hit up the Good Food Awards this past weekend; check out what Let's Go San Francisco spotted at the Good Foods Marketplace this weekend. You can imagine my delight and excitement when I stumbled upon the Good Food Awards at the Ferry Building. For $5 I had all-you-can-eat chocolate, cheese, and coffee (um, seriously a dream come true). Vendors from all over the country Read more
We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Fitness Magazine here on FitSugar! When Cheryl Forberg — registered dietitian, James Beard award-winning chef, and creator of The Biggest Loser meal plan — signed onto the show for its first season, she was shocked at the contestants' states of health. "Most of what I did was not on camera; at the beginning of every season, the applicant Read more
