Remarkable! There are certain characteristics that make Honeycrisp remarkable among apples. It has a first-of-its-kind crispness that no previous apple has ever possessed, its juiciness is un surpassed, and it can be held for an unusually long period of time, compared to other apple varieties, in prime condition.

Honeycrisp is at top of apple basket

By Steve Kaufman
Who’s found the apple of his eye

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071117/FEATURES/711170352

If you’re like me, you can never quite get that apple that tastes just right — the one that’s firm and crunchy and tart but sweet. Every year, I find a type I think I like and then, the next fall, I can never remember which one that was. Last year, I struck it rich. Fresh Market on Shelbyville Road in Middletown was selling a variety called Honeycrisp. Rarely has an apple been better named. It’s crisp, it’s sweet, it’s about perfect.According to honeycrisp.com, it’sa product of cross-breeding at the University of Minnesota: mating a Macoun with a Honeygold. It’s grown in Minnesota and is available usually from mid-September until early to mid-December. Last year it was only available around here at Fresh Market. This year, it seems to be available practically everywhere. On a recent shopping expedition, I found it at Whole Foods, Paul’s and Kroger too. There were plenty at each store, but that bounty will run out. At Fresh Market, at any rate, they’re never put into cold storage, as other apples are. Manager Steven Smith told me they go from the orchards to the retailer’s distribution centers, then to the stores. That’s one reason the season’s limited; there’s no excess inventory. They’re not cheap. At Fresh Market on a recent Sunday, they were selling at $2.48 a pound, nearly 50 percent more than other apples. Whole Foods and Paul’s had them for $2.99 a pound that day, Kroger at $1.88.

Are they worth it? Depends how picky you are. The apple is big, it sprays juice down your chin when you bite into it, the taste is as sweet as … and the texture is as firm as … well, honeycrisp, just as the name says.

The raw hype
Why so many celebrities skip the stove

Pillbox | Abiola Fasehun   Alicia Silverstone, Demi Moore, and Bill Cosby are all enthusiasts for the raw food lifestyle, which promises health, natural beauty, and a sound state of mind through eating uncooked foods.

The raw food movement began in the 1930s and has grown in popularity over the years — followers are commonly referred to as raw foodists. Essential to the raw food lifestyle is the belief in the power of enzymes; raw foodists believe that cooking zaps the food of nutritional value and enzymes. They eat fruits, vegetables, seafood, dairy, and meats that have not been cooked at temperatures higher than 120ºF to avoid destroying enzymes and nutritional value.

Opponents of the raw food lifestyle believe that most raw food enthusiasts are not realistic about the long term effects of eating a 100-percent raw food diet. According to an article in Wellness Foods, Dr. Mark Anthony asserted that a 100-percent raw food diet can lead to nutritional deficiencies. “The usual argument against the all-raw diet is that there are risks for deficiencies, particularly calcium, iron, and B12,” Anthony wrote. “The risk of deficiency is present with any restricted diet….That’s why ‘variety, balance, and moderation’ is not merely a cliché but a solid nutritional defense strategy.”

In her book Eating in the Raw, supermodel Carol Alt describes her experiences crash dieting, which often made her sick. Frustrated, Alt began eating raw foods. “Unlike the millions of people who deprive themselves on diets, I eat as much as I want — so long as it’s raw,” she wrote. “I don’t weigh anything. That’s something I let my body dictate.”
Once a person decides to switch to a raw food lifestyle it is essential to have fresh food sources available and a positive attitude about eating raw foods. “Once you begin to think about food differently and to see raw food as food and cooked food as garbage it becomes easy,” Alt wrote, describing what kept her motivated. “Practically speaking, it’s all a matter of changing habits.”Ready to eat raw? Below are a few tips to ensure that your raw food journey will be a success. These steps can be applied gradually to your current eating habits.

1. Start step by step. Switching from a typical American diet to a raw food diet requires a major shift in vitamin and caloric intake. Your body will welcome the change, but a gradual change will ease your mind and taste buds into the process.

2. Stock up your pantry with basic raw food needs. The beauty about the raw food diet is that it requires a lot of creative ideas to create new meals from scratch. Not having basic raw food cooking necessities can make both the transition and food bland. The website www.rawfood.com offers a variety of raw food essentials, including appliances and supplements.

3. Find raw food recipes you love. During the transitional phase, you may be faced with moments in which you miss your favorite foods. Still, no matter what that food may be, chances are there is a similar raw food recipe. Whether you love falafel, milk shakes, or cookies, you can find great recipes in raw food cookbooks, including Rawvolution by Matt Amsden, Eating in the Raw by Carol Alt, and Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe.

4. Plan out your meals. Create weekly menus to help map out your food’s nutritional value. Planning your meals will also ensure that you are getting variety in your meal choices.1.Do your homework. Before starting the raw food lifestyle it is important to make sure that the lifestyle is right for you: Do you have enough time to prepare your meals from scratch? What is your motivation? To research, read books and articles about the positives and negatives of the raw food lifestyle. Helpful websites include www.live-live.com, www.living-foods.com, and www.rawfoodlife.com.  

The “G” Lifestyle is about products and services that are so well designed they become objects of desire.

The “G” Lifestyle is the next generation’s preferred lifestyle. It’s all about design, technology, knowledge, style, food, having fun and re-thinking how we live now and how we should live in the future. This includes the way business will be conducted and how products will be produced. It’s also about the story behind the products, enabling us to make informed choices as consumers.

The G Living Network is more than a media entertainment network for a new generation. We are a lifestyle company. We focus on all the elements that make this lifestyle possible. Currently, G Living creates original innovative content, and works hands-on to create “G” products, contemporary designs and original programming from our Venice California studio. The G Living Network produces various online media, including streaming broadband shows, a multi-media cookbook, cooking shows, featured editorial content, daily blogs, and an interactive social networking community.

For the last 24 months we have focused exclusively on business development and defining and promoting our brand, as well as establishing our company’s methodology for conducting business. We created our signature branding, style, logo, web magazine site, and filmed over 50 shows, with pop culture stars, social critics, world famous chefs, athletes, film directors and business leaders. Our shows and web magazine have been seen by over 20 million people in the last 12 months.

Why Create A Contemporary Green Lifestyle Company

We are living at a very exciting point in time, an awakening period, where real change seems to be possible. Things that only a few years ago seemed very fringe and extreme, something only the most motivated individuals would even consider, are now looking very normal. But the flip side is the worldwide crisis’ we’re experiencing at the same time… from global warming, to wild habitats destroyed, to natural animal populations collapsing, and of course, nations fighting each other in bloody wars.

We started G Living to focus on the positive and creative side of green. We look for green solutions that are practical and easy enough for anyone to incorporate into their own lives. The solutions, ideas and products have to have the same (or a higher) standard than the traditional options everyone is used to.

You can look at it like this: G Living is not about just Green Living, it’s about smarter living. Here is the equation to figure out if something is “G”: it must have, The Green factor + Quality + Function + Design + Style + Price = “G”.

If the object or service has the highest end of all those factors, then it’s “G”. If it is sustainable, but poorly made, that is not “G”, it’s simply a green item.

I am bringing this up because we are at that tipping point. A point where the mainstream corporations are jumping on board, which is great, and not so great. If the public doesn’t understand what the definition of “Green” is, the mainstream companies will define it for us. They will produce products that fit their own financial needs and maybe not really the planet’s or our needs. So, our goal here is to bring clarity to what is and what is not “G” and the reasons behind it. This gives you easy access to the information, so you can quickly make a buying decision based on all the factors that make up a product or service, and not just the desirable appearance or the buzz word on the tag.

Why are we Unique?

G Living is the only modern green lifestyle company with a combination of unique market advantages. The only new media network to produce shows which cover all aspects of this lifestyle space. The only company with a dedicated production staff and facility to produce timely and high quality content for this new audience. The only company with a name and branding that actually means what the lifestyle is all about. A person can be “G” or do “G” things or say within a natural sentence: That car is so “G”.

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It’s that time of the year again. It is finally starting to get cold (if you are worried about the global warming maybe you should become carbon-neutral) and the New Oxford American Dictionary is preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year. The 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) locavore.The past year saw the popularization of a trend in using locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without the need for extra preservatives.The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.“The word ‘locavore’ shows how food-lovers can enjoy what they eat while still appreciating the impact they have on the environment,” said Ben Zimmer, editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. “It’s significant in that it brings together eating and ecology in a new way.”“Locavore” was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as “localvores” rather than “locavores.” However it’s spelled, it’s a word to watch.

Reference: http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/locavore