Blogs, Books, Magazines, Media

Culinate
An ongoing conversation about learning to eat well. Our content — articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, food news, blog posts — helps people put real food at the center of their lives.

Sustainable Table
Celebrates the sustainable food movement.  Educates consumers on food related issues.

King Corn
Watch this movie!  It's available on Netflix.  I show it to all my classes.  This explains the whole food system in the U.S. and why it is causing so many economic and health problems.  This documentary is informative, non-judgemental and very engaging.

Eat Well Guide
Finding good food.  Local. Sustainable. Organic.

Mothering Magazine
 A beautiful bi-monthly magazine that celebrates natural family living.  Over 22 years old with over 230,000 subscribers.

Better School Food
 BSF is composed of health professionals, educators and concerned parents. Their mission is to support parents and others in advocating for a better food environment wherever kids meet and eat.

Marion Nestle's Blog
Marion has her finger on the pulse of everything to do with food consumerism.  She is the maven of food politics and a watchdog of food research.  Marion also has a very approachable style and boodles of common sense. 

101 Cookbooks
Heidi Swanson's is the author of Super Natural Cooking. Her site can be summed up in two sentences: When you own over 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking. This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time. 

Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin
 Information and recipes from Annemarie's popular books Food and Healing, The Book of Whole Meals, The Natural Gourmet and her newest release, Food and Our Bones. 

Find High-Quality Foods

Local Harvest
How to find a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in your area.

Eat Wild
How to find local grass-fed food such as eggs, dairy and meat.

PCC (Puget Consumers Coop)
A chain of conscientious natural foods grocery stores in the greater Seattle area that provide customers with excellent fresh, local, organic products.

Montery Bay Aquarium
Information about which fish are being caught or raised sustainably.

Grain and Salt Society
Site that features very high qualtity celtic salt and more.

Straus Family Creamery
Local sustainable organic dairy products

Stonyfield Yogurt
Organic dairy products

Lightlife
Find out about this great company that produces excellent tempeh and other soy-based products.

Omega Oils
The highest quality, certified organic, cold-pressed oils available! Includes excellent flax seed oils.


Rapunzel
A company working to promote eco-trade through the sale of delicious certified organic foods including rapadura natural sugar and chocolate products.

Whole Foods
A national chain of exceptional-quality natural foods grocery stores.  Find out if there's a store near you.

Schools

Bastyr University
 The only fully-accredited school of natural medicine offering degrees in naturopathic medicine, accupuncture and oriental medicine and nutrition.  Located in Bothell, Washington.

PCC Cooks!
 Excellent gourmet and everyday whole foods cooking classes offered in the Seattle, WA area.  Ms. Lair has been an instructor for PCC (Puget Consumer's Coop) since 1990.

The Natural Gourmet Cookery School
Culinary arts training using whole, natural foods.  Offering public classes in healthy cooking and a Chef's Training Program for those interested  in careers in the natural foods industry.  Founded by Annemarie Colbin, located in New York City.