Whole Foods Heads Uptown

Send to KindleTweet Whole Foods Market recently announced the planned opening of two new Manhattan locations: Harlem and the Upper East Side (UES). The stores, which are in the works, build upon the other existing seven locations in NYC. The Harlem location, which is set to open in the summer of 2015, will be located [...]

Weekly Links: Haircare Developments, GMO Updates, & Big Box News

Send to KindleTweet Link love from this week and last – hipsters at hotels outside Manhattan (I know, brace yourself), Nordstrom may finally arrive on NYC soil, hair care innovations, GMO updates and more! L’Oreal apparently has some new hair cair ingredient dubbed neogenic that could possibly help improve hair density, according to Cosmetics Design. [...]

GMO Spotlight: Spuds

Send to KindleTweet Are you ready for GMO french fries? You better be because at this very moment, now that the Europeans have rejected GMO foods, multinationals are testing genetically engineered potatoes on U.S. soil. I don’t trust anything that involves a company that has been part of 1) agent orange 2) the making of [...]

Snack Co. Blends Common, Alt Grains

Send to KindleTweet Usually corn and quinoa are consumed by two different demographics. Corn is in almost everything, whether we realize it or not. Most animals are fed corn or soy, as food engineering allows farmers to produce crops faster. Quinoa, a cult food among the alternative crowd seeking gluten-free grains, is popular thanks to [...]

Photoshop-Inspired Beauty: Cellulite Creams

Send to KindleTweet The baby boomer generation of women don’t understand why generation X cares so much about cellulite. I guess that’s because they weren’t dating in the age of Photoshop. We are supposed to feel like men appreciate women with curves but everyone prefers firm to flabby. Genes do ultimately define our shape but [...]

Is GMO Broccoli Next?

Send to KindleTweet An announcement from Monsanto and Apio (a unit of Landec Corp.) suggests that broccoli might be the next vegetable to be tweaked in the lab. Such products are labeled as enriched and at first seem positive additions to the grocery shelves, as they are marketed as multi-tasking products that are healthier than [...]

New Product Review: Clif Mojo & Luna Bars

Send to KindleTweet Every fall the Expo East wellness and health food convention brings retailers, writers and product developers together to showcase existing and new products. Just a few years ago I spoke to a man about chips that were made in an unconventional manner. Two years later Pop chips have a following across the [...]

Apple: A Giant Underdog?

Send to KindleTweet It seems no matter how big Apple grows, it always maintains underdog status. The U.S. government’s supposed antitrust investigations (WSJ) are insanely arbitrary and their regulation of food, media and technology equally random. In recent months, anyone that reads a major metropolitan newspaper would have learned that GMO alfalfa is OK, but Apple [...]

U.S. Gov’t Deregulates Genetically Modified Alfalfa

Send to KindleTweet The Department of Agriculture has moved to deregulate genetically engineered alfalfa. The decision is a win for one of America’s biggest agricultural companies, publicly traded Monsanto, which developed a Roundup Ready alfalfa seed with Forage Genetics International (FGI). Genetically engineered seeds are usually touted by the makers as having three benefits: higher [...]

Entrepreneur Profile: Little Duck Organics

Send to KindleTweet A recovery from the worst recession in about seven decades may not seem like the ideal time to start a new food business, but Zak Normandin forged ahead. With a Just Do It kind of attitude, the New Hampshire-based professional and co-founder of design house Redwood Concepts started an organic dried fruits [...]

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