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Make your daily chocolate nibble fairly-traded. Photo of Equal Exchange Minis by Elvira Kalviste. This year, we went Fair Trade for Halloween. That means that the chocolate we handed out was ethically produced. While you won’t see many articles about it, cacao is an agricultural product that uses child slave labor in the fields.…
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Fragrant and luscious, this tasty teaneeds no added sugar. Photo courtesyChoice Organic Tea. The lychee (pronounced LIE-chee, not LEE-chee, after the Chinese lai chi) is one of the most popular fruits in Southern China. The evergreen grows wild in southern China, northern Vietnam and Cambodia, although there is evidence that it has been cultivated…
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October is Fair Trade Month. If you don’t know about Fair Trade, it’s important enough to devote a minute to read this. Small family farmers in developing-world countries grow much of the world’s cacao, coffee, tea, fruits and vegetables, cotton, flowers, ingredients for beauty products—more than 3,000 products in all. The vast majority of family…
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Yesterday’s posts focused on tea. Now coffee gets its turn—in the form of coffee candy. The artisans at How Do You Take Your Coffee?, a confectioner in Reno, Nevada, like their coffee so much that they freshly roast their own beans prior to making four different types of coffee candy. The candies are innovative and…
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Just mix the concentrate with milk and you’ll be transported to India (photo by Katherine Pollak | THE NIBBLE). Chai lovers: You can now enjoy this spiced exotic treat in your own home. Rishi, sellers of organic tea, have launched an organic and Fair Trade Masala Chai tea concentrate. Masala chai is made by…
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