What the Pilgrims Really Ate

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If you think squash casserole and pecan tassies came over on the Mayflower, think again. Take a peek at the foods from the first Thanksgiving feast...

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The Copenhagen Conference on Food Security

by Lester R. Brown
November 10, 2009
Earth Policy Institute

For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal concern is rising sea level. For countries in southern Europe, climate change means less rainfall and more drought. For countries of East Asia and the Caribbean, more powerful storms and storm surges are a growing worry. This climate change conference is about all these things, and many more, but in a very fundamental sense, it is a conference about food security.

We need not go beyond ice melting to see that the world is in trouble on the food front. The melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets is raising sea level. If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt entirely, sea level would rise by 23 feet. Recent projections show that it could rise by up to 6 feet during this century...

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Healthy Fall Farmers' Market Vegetables -- And How to Cook with Them

By Laura Sampedro
The Daily Green
November 2, 2009

How to use 10 tricky fall fruits and vegetables in delicious seasonal recipes. See more seasonal Fall recipes.

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