About this time in the calendar, at the end of the month and before the new month, we look at the various ways we can celebrate food during the coming weeks. September clearly will not disappoint. Sure it’s a hectic month with back-to-school, lunchboxes, and a semi-normal work schedule without long weekend escapes, but there is much to celebrate. Take a peek.
Here’s a hearty protein to start with: National Chicken Month. Lotsa ways to celebrate this one from finding new recipes to supporting producers of organic and heritage birds.
It’s also a sweet month: It’s National Honey Month. The Honey Board’s website makes it easy for parents and youngsters to find teaching activities about honey or bees, and some easy recipes.
Now my new food weakness: Mushrooms. September is National Mushroom Month and Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (considered the Mushroom Capital of the World) celebrates with the 24th Annual Mushroom Festival. Maybe one of the best nutritional tidbits about mushrooms is their natural Vitamin D content. With everyone screaming about testing for low Vitamin D levels: Do yourself a favor, enjoy mushrooms.
The list goes on, and some foods are celebrated for a week or a single day. (Starting on the 6th is National Waffle Week). The possibilities for a week or a day’s celebration are only limited by your imagination.
September, a back-to-reality month, is just a warm up for October’s great party: Virginia Wine Month.
It’s a good news-bad news story: We are moving into a post-Recession universe. We have seen prices drop on important commodities like milk and eggs: That’s the good news. Now flip the coin, and you get the other story. We escaped a near Depression cycle, but are headed onto a collision course of higher food prices. That’s a problem.
, there are still far too many individuals struggling to find footing. The grocery chains, much like the restaurants, are trying to capture some of the action. 
It’s like you’ve found a 4-leaf clover and bingo all in one cup. This expensive, technologically smart machine makes a different, richer brew than you might expect. It’s not an inexpensive purchase for a small coffee shop, but it is what may distinguish them when coffees and espressos are lined up on the bar. Actually watching a barista in action at a clover machine is a fine art of delicate processing. The coffee gets ground, the unit gets a clean sweep, and all the magic starts to pour at the cup. 
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The sugar debate continues. Just this week, the 
It sounds easy: You grab a product off the shelf and continue your grocery shopping. No, not really. You have to build time, significant time into the outing, to read, digest the food labels. Who would suspect that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is in so many products? Why is it there in the first place? Do we need it or is its presence just interfering with what we consider healthy grocery purchasing?
