Mary Crimmins

We have officially entered into the Farmer’s Market season and I can almost taste the summer tomatoes. Farmers everywhere are planting, watering, weeding and harvesting their crops. I am an avid supporter of Farmer’s Markets and think that everyone should shop at one if available. And here’s why:   Meet Your Farmer – This is [...]

Last week I went to Publix to do some grocery shopping for a friend who was in the hospital. My task was to provide lunches for her kids and to buy in bulk. As I walked about the aisles, and started putting things in my basket I was struck with a dilemma. A dilemma that [...]

As I have mentioned before, Chris and I eat out a lot. To be honest, it is a habit that was formed years ago during a crisis in our lives and by being reactive we seared into our routine the default of eating out. I actually love to cook and am pretty darn good at it [...]

You are all probably aware of how much I admire Michael Pollan. He is changing the face of local/organic food and conscious food consumption. I have an adorable stop-action video here to share that is animated with vegetables and comes from Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle at Brain Pickings. Love this! It took them 3 weeks [...]

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 [...]

Every five years, a new Farm Bill is passed that addresses agricultural issues including government subsides of farms, commodity crops, trade, food and nutrition programs, food safety, food prices, agricultural preservation, and livestock. The new bill comes up in 2012 and there is a lot of media attention happening around the corruption and secrecy of this bill, and how [...]

There are few things that inspire me the way that immersing myself into a book does. Being transported into another life, another place, and perhaps another time is magical. When is comes to eating locally, education is paramount. Books allow us the opportunity to see what is really going on in the food system, who is making [...]