KICKSTARTER: Hot Bread Kitchen Scholarships

We normally don’t promote Kickstarter campaigns because we have limited bandwidth, and prefer to focus our efforts writing about food. But here’s an organization we feel strongly about, and your chance to pay it forward for very little. The Hot Bread Kitchen is a Harlem based artisanal bakery that trains disadvantaged women to become professional…
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FOCUS: So You Want To Be A Food Writer?

This week we received an email from a young food blogger, who asked about writing opportunities at THE NIBBLE. She wanted to “gain industry experience.” We get frequent inquiries of this nature from people of all ages. Here’s our advice. There are limited career opportunities in food writing. If by “career” you mean an occupation…
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ISSUE: Bee-Ware Of Dishonest Honey

Do you care if your honey is “honest honey”—ethically sourced? Then read the labels. Last year, the U.S. produced only about 144 million pounds of the 382 million pounds of honey consumed. The remainder was imported from Argentina, Brazil, Canada and other countries. And it’s the “other countries” wherein the problem lies—specifically, Asian imports. Two…
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