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January 24, 2012
Ithaca Journal
Gimme Coffee Wins Award
ITHACA — Gimme Coffee, Ithaca’s own locally grown coffee company, now with four locations in Tompkins County and another three in New York City, has won a 2012 Good Food Award for the second year in a row for a batch of Colombian coffee it roasted called Finca San Luis. According to the company, this [...]
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January 17, 2012
Huffington Post
Good Food Awards 2012 Winners Announced
On Friday night, the winners of the second annual Good Food Awards were announced. The awards highlight artisan producers from across the country. The ceremony, hosted at San Francisco’s Ferry Building, which itself boasts many storefronts selling artisan food products, featured speeches from food world luminaries Alice Waters and Ruth Reichl (read her whole speech here). [...]
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January 15, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle
And the winners of the Good Food Awards are…
Winners of the second annual Good Food Awards, which recognize artisan producers in eight categories and five geographical regions, were announced Friday at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. More than 1,000 products were entered, and were evaluated by culinary professionals. California winners in the various categories include: Beer: Lagunitas Brewing Co. for A Little [...]
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November 17, 2011
The Atlantic
Good Food Award Finalist Sour Puss Makes One Mean Pickle
The Good Food Awards are back — after an inaugural year that brought Alice Waters to the podium, Andrew Barnett to the judging panel, and arame and ginger sauerkraut salad to the table. The not-for-profit organization led by Sarah Weiner and Dominic Phillips has just announced the finalists for a 2012 contest that has set out, [...]
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November 15, 2011
Huffington Post
Good Food Awards 2012 Finalists Announced
The second annual Good Food Awards, a showcase for exceptional artisanal food products, has announced the 2012 finalists for all categories: Beer, Charcuterie, Cheese, Chocolate, Coffee, Pickles, Preservers and Spirits. “The companies behind this year’s 144 Good Food Awards finalists are incredibly diverse, from an 8 person goat cheese dairy in Harrisburg, Missouri to a 400 person [...]
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October 27, 2011
Forbes
10 Truly Artisanal Foods to Try Now
A word to the wise: If something is labeled “artisanal” these days, it probably isn’t. Take, for example, Dominos Artisan pizzas, Starbucks Artisan Breakfast Sandwiches, and Tostito Artisan tortilla chips among dozens of other mass-produced products. What you won’t find labeled artisan, most likely, are the foods that have really earned the title: small-batch products, [...]
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October 24, 2011
Civil Eats
Pickled at the Good Food Awards 2011
Two weeks ago I ate over 40 different kinds of pickles. Aside from the lacto fermented bloat that any human belly undoubtedly suffers after sampling that many pickled products, the experience was memorable and delicious. How, you may ask, did I get myself into such a situation? It’s the second annual Good Food Awards, of course. [...]
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August 18, 2011
Farm Progress
Trudels Face Specialty Challenges
For specialty crop producers trying to build a business, having products win national awards can be a great morale boost. But while publicity from those awards whets the appetites of potential customers, it doesn’t ward off the bad weather, weeds and insects that can limit crop production. That’s the challenge facing Dan and Ann Trudel of Knox County. They won two 2011 Good [...]
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July 3, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle
2011 Competition: Entries open for artisan awards
The entry period opens on Tuesday for the 2011 Good Food Awards, the second annual competition organized by the San Francisco nonprofit Seedling Projects to recognize the nation’s best artisan foods and their producers. Organic craft food producers from around the country can enter their products in eight categories: beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, pickles, [...]
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May 10, 2011
Voice of America
US School Tries to Build Healthier Food Culture
An elementary school in Washington, D.C., has launched an innovative program to provide a more healthful food culture for its students. In a third grade mathematics class at E.W. Stokes Public Charter School, 8- and 9-year-old students are learning a basic math concept; how to create combinations, which in this case includes items like spinach [...]
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March 18. 2011
Greenpeace
Pig Business
Tracy Worcester, Marchioness of Worcester and future Duchess of Beaufort, is not your typical English noblewoman. She is an impassioned environmental activist to the core, and she is definitely not afraid to get her hands dirty. Her new documentary, “Pig Business,” details Worcester’s four-year crusade against Smithfield Foods, Inc., the world’s largest pork producer and [...]
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March 8, 2011
Huffington Post
Resistance to Factory Pig Farming Gathers Steam
This week my film Pig Business will have its U.S. premiere on Capitol Hill. As the film’s director, I believe this story comes to the United States at a very timely moment — as unionized workers and other citizens are showing their determination to fight back against being stripped of their bargaining rights, which, I [...]
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January 20, 2011
The Atlantic
Tasty, Authentic, Responsible: Inside the Good Food Awards
Last weekend’s Good Food Awards transformed San Francisco’s Ferry Building into a reinvented county fair with artisans from 26 states traveling to collect their prizes and share their wares. At Friday night’s gala, red, white, and blue bunting and a stage framed by the American flag hinted at the organizer’s ambitious national intentions for the [...]
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January 12, 2011
The Atlantic
Introducing the Good Food Awards
Today I eat the last of the homemade toffee that’s been tempting my hand since the start of the holiday season. With a stab of regret, I shake the tin in disbelief—all that toffee, really gone? I note the carnage: chocolate boxes emptied, cookie Santas decapitated, gingerbread houses gnawed to their foundations. As I nearly [...]
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January 7, 2011
SFGate
Good Food Month to Kick Off with Artisan Awards
Good Food Month, a series of Bay Area events celebrating sustainable food and their producers, gets under way Friday at San Francisco’s Ferry Building with the announcement of the Good Food Awards recognizing the nation’s best artisan food producers. Almost 800 entries from 41 states vied for best-of-class awards in chocolate, cheese, charcuterie, coffee, beer, [...]
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January 4, 2011
Fresh Cup
The Good Food Awards Perspective
When San Francisco-based Seedling Projects hands out the first-ever Good Food Awards on Jan. 14, the event’s organizers will likely breathe a sigh of relief. GFA began as an effort to honor food and drink in seven categories—including coffee—produced with social responsibility and environmental sustainability top of mind. However, over the past several months, GFA [...]
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November 16, 2010
SFGate
Good Food Awards finalists announced; lots of locals represented
Last night, the finalists for the first-ever Good Food Awards were announced. Nominations were sent out in August for producers of high-quality chocolate, coffee, beer, cheese, charcuterie, pickles and preserves. Following months of blind tasting, the panel selected 130 finalists. In January, the winners will be announced. The full list of finalists is below, and [...]
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August 3, 2010
Chow.com
Good Food Awards Ready to Judge Your Jam
Call it the Oscars of pickles. A new food contest called the Good Food Awards is going to be handing out 80 awards to the best-tasting sustainably produced food products from around the country in January. The categories are jam, pickles, coffee, chocolate, beer, charcuterie, and cheese. From now until September 15, products can be [...]
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July 30, 2010
Washington City Paper
Not Going Condo: The Farm at Walker Jones
There’s a lot going on around the corner of K and New Jersey Avenue. Sandwiched in between NoMa and Mount Vernon Square, it’s seen tall buildings sprout up on all sides, along a busy thoroughfare eight blocks north of Congress. Through all that, about a half acre of land has sat grassy and fallow, lending [...]
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July 31, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle
New Awards to Salute Artisan Food Producers
Chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers all have competitions where they are recognized for their work. Now, artisan food producers are getting a contest to call their own. Starting today, nominations are being accepted for the first-ever Good Food Awards, honoring the nation’s makers of high-quality chocolate, coffee, beer, cheese, charcuterie, pickles and preserves. The judging is for [...]
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May 3, 2010
Civil Eats
Seedling Projects featured in Faces & Visions of the Food Movement: Sam Mogannam
Sam Mogannam is the much-loved owner of San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Market, Bi-Rite Creamery, and founder of 18 Reasons, a community space that invites people to explore art, food, and community. According to a recent article in 7×7 about SF tastemakers, he’s also been called the Mayor of 18th Street on a number of occasions. With his market and his [...]
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July 11, 2007
7X7 San Francisco
The Good Life: Sarah Weiner Savors Every Bite
Just because Sarah Weiner gets a biweekly delivery of organic produce—from which she whips up such healthy dishes as Tunisian carrot salad and Indian-style cabbage—doesn’t mean she won’t also relish the grilled spare ribs at her local Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall. And just because her usual elaborate morning routine (invigorating sprint up to Coit Tower from her [...]
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