Mary Crimmins

(Image Source) Ah, Jerry Seinfield. I listen to this excerpt a few times a year and in between handing out Halloween candy to the neighborhood kids. Hilarious and so true! But perhaps, you are a little more conscious about what goes into the mouth’s of your children than the sugar and chemical laden name brand [...]

People assume that because I consider myself a locavore that I eat 100% local food. Wrong. I hope to someday get to that place – but at this stage in my life that is not realistic. Right now, I eat about 70% local food and that bumps up to about 80% in the summer and [...]

When we walk into a supermarket we are hit with an illusion of diversity. We have 50 options for cereal, cheese,yogurt, etc. In reality the majority of those options contain the same ingredients, and most of them will contain some form of corn. This commodity crop has become so cheap to produce, that we had such [...]

Last night I was cooking some of my favorite local sausage for dinner and happened to look at the package and noticed that in the ingredients it listed High Fructose Corn Syrup. I was stunned. How could my delicious and organic meat contain corn syrup. This was exactly the kind of thing I was attempting [...]

It’s no surprise that America has the highest obesity and diabetes rates in the world considering we spend more on our healthcare than we do on our food. Even within the past 5 years, obesity rates have climbed (reaching over 30% in some states) and not one state has decreased their obesity percentages. This is largely due [...]