Greetings!
It’s been a busy fall with a historic election behind us and Thanksgiving and the holiday season ahead of us. To make matters more complicated, we’re all feeling the time crunch, the money crunch and the energy crunch.
Let me remind you to take good care of yourself as the days grow colder and darker. Make an effort to get more sleep, more downtime, more warming food.
I’m here to inspire you and support you in making healthy changes in your food and your life. This fall I’m available for one on one consultations, supermarket tours and public speaking. Or, if you’d like to set up a small group class in your home or over the phone, simply email or call me to set it up.
Here’s wishes for a happy and healthy November,
Susan 🙂
| Slow Food Westchester Event Sunday November 16th |
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 Please join Slow Food Hudson Valley and Slow Food Westchester for an autumnal tour and dessert potluck at Glynwood CenterCold Spring, New York. You’ll learn about what Glynwood Farm is doing to preserve farming in the Hudson Valley. Sunday, November 16, 2008 Please RSVP to: info@slowfoodwestchester.org Slow Food is an international movement opposing fast food, and promoting protecting the heritage , traditions and culture of food.Slow Food USA has more than 200 chapters across the country. |
| Pangea Conference November 14-15th in NYC |
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 The Pangea 2008 Conference is an integrative medicine program, offered to all doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, clergy, complementary therapy practitioners, residents, students and others in health care training programs. I’ll be speaking on a panel discussion entitled Sick Schools: Promoting Healthier School Environments |
| Eat Local & Seasonal for Better Health |
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 Here’s a delicious way to help reduce your carbon footprint and save money too. Join a CSA. and you get loads of veggies fresher than your supermarket. Fresher food has a higher nutrient content. Bialas Farms in Goshen NY will be offering a winter CSA with a pick up location in Pleasantville NY and Manhattan. Visit their website, www.bia lasfarms.com and click on the CSA button for more information. Tell them that Susan Rubin sent you! |
| November Recipe: Miso Onion Soup |
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 As November brings us colder weather, this soup warms you up and can prevent or soothe upper respiratory ailments. My friend Randi whips up a batch whenever she feels a sore throat coming on, she knows that the combination of garlic, ginger and miso work wonders. To avoid too many tears, I utilize my food processor for slicing the onions. Ingredients: Procedure: |
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Leading & Eating by Example
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| Many of us are filled with hope and a renewed sense of possiblity now that Barack Obama has been elected president. He will have his work cut out for him. We’re facing monumental issues concerning the Economy, Environment and Energy- and that’s just the E’s! These E’s can be effectively addressed by utilizing the “F” word: FOOD! Food is directly linked to all of these issues.
Roger Doiran, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International has a proposal for the first family to turn some of that White House lawn into a garden. Not only is this an idea whose time has come, but it’s imperative that all of us begin growing some of our own food again. During the depression in the 1930’s, the one thing that helped mitigate the impact was that a majority of the country still grew most of their own food – at a point in time where we’re watching the economy spiral downward and the possibility of a depression is quite real, now less than 5% of us are growing our own food. One of the most revolutionary things we can do these days is to re- acquire the skills necessary to feed ourselves and our family. Growing food leads to sharing with others, builds community, leads to understanding, diminishes differences, celebrates life! Lawns are an outdated and irresponsible concept. We spend lots of money and energy mowing and blowing them, lawns are a major source of pollution. Check out the history of lawns by clicking here. Gardens, on the other hand, especially organic ones, are what the world needs right now.This idea has been done before. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt had a garden at the White House which inspired many Americans to start Victory Gardens Maine’s First Lady, Karen Baldacci, is a nutritionist with a high Food IQ. They have gardens and a greenhouse at the Blaine House in Augusta, Maine. It would be great to get all of the Governor’s to grow some food too! I hope you’ll join Eat the View and encourage all of your friends to do the same. |
