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Recipe: Wild King Salmon with Dried Cherries and Smoked Almond Beurre Noisette with guest Chef Braiden Rex-Johnson, celebrated cookbook author, this recipe comes from her newest book, Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining

Secret Ingredient: Dried Cherries

This article provides excellent reporting on ethanol and how it is leading to the destruction of vast amounts of the Amazon. Sample: “The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year.” Check out The Clean Energy Scam and share your thoughts on what we should and shouldn’t do about this dilemma.

Ever eaten spaghetti and meatballs on a stick? How about cheesecake on a stick? Tune in to hear more about Something on a Stick Day, a celebration of this unusual cuisine.

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Secret Ingredient: Wellshire Spiral Ham

• Wellshire Ham is exclusive to Whole Foods Market.
• Wellshire Farms supports family farmers and small independent family owned meat plants.
• Raised according to our animal compassion standards with antibiotics or added growth hormones.
• Does not contain any nitrites, nitrates, chemicals, preservatives or added water.
• Is fully cooked which makes it great for hectic holiday get-togethers – simply heat enjoy.
• Naturally wood smoked.
• Semi-boneless with a small bone in the center, perfect for adding flavor to after holiday soups!

This Saturday, March 22, is World Water Day, a day of awareness about the people who do not have the luxury of safe drinking water. Most of us think that such a problem can only happen in underdeveloped countries, but the recent news about pharmaceuticals in municipal drinking water in the U.S. and Europe brings the problem to your kitchen faucet. In addition, the almost daily revelations of threats to fresh water around the globe, from rivers polluted by agricultural runoff to aquifers contaminated by landfills, is sufficient motivation for each of us to try and do something about it.

No part of this problem is too trivial, so give us your views — or perhaps a solution — regarding any aspect of it, big or small, from the potential contaminants in your plastic water bottle that were discussed in the last two posts, to your opinions on public water policy. What can or should be done to protect and improve our fresh water supply? What do you do to make sure your drinking water is pure?

Please join our conversation on this critical topic and take a moment this World Water Day to consider what’s coming out of your faucet.

The Easter Bunny is on her way and we have all the eggformation you need to make her visit a safe, nutritious and joyful one. Tune in for info on egg preparation, natural egg dyes and different ways to eat all those extra eggs!

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Recipe: Eggs in Purgatory
Secret Ingredient: Whole Foods Market Eggs

• Whole Foods Eggs give new meaning to the saying, “A good egg”.
• Offering eggs from only cage–free hens since 2004. And since 2005, all of the products made in Whole Foods’ kitchens, bakeries and commissaries use only cage-free eggs as well.
• Brown or white? Egg nutrition comes from diet. The color of an egg is determined by the breed of chicken.
• Raised on family-run farms with access to the outdoors on a healthful diet of organically grown grains, including corn, soybeans and alfalfa with no animal by-products.

How do you bring people out of poverty without taking away their dignity? Tune in to hear what the Whole Planet Foundation and a Nobel prize-winning banker are doing to help the poor help themselves.

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Are you ready for the hottest kitchen competition yet? Grab your fork and hold on tight for the Secret Ingredient Showdown! It’s an East vs. West Team Member cooking contest a la Iron Chef, broadcast live online.

Searching for excellence, the East has built its culinary force with one Team Member from each Eastern region, encompassing Florida, the South, the entire Atlantic seaboard, New York and London. From Texas and the Midwest through the Rockies to California and north to Vancouver the West has done the same, confident that their frontier spirit will prevail. Learn more.

Those nasty plastic containers. Because it’s so difficult to avoid them completely, we should be aware of the different types out there and their potential for harm. Grist, the Green Guide and the Sierra Club are good places to start seeking information on how to avoid the worst of them. As Francis Bacon once said, knowledge is power.

Join the conversation and let us know your favorite sources of truth and knowledge about all things green.