Comments on: Rutabagas, Artichokes, Kiwis, Oh My!

Rutabagas, Artichokes, Kiwis, Oh My!

netbros — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:04:43 -0800

FruitAndVeggieGuru – everything you need to know about the delicious fruits and vegetables you enjoy. Answers about how to lower your cholesterol or how to prepare asparagus. You'll find loads of background and variety information, nutrition specifics, serving sizes, preparation ideas and care and handling tips.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:10:53 -0800

This strikes me as kind of an advertisement.

By: BT

BT — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:35:17 -0800

The site is a product of Vance Publishing's Food360 division, which brings you Swine Practitioner and Citrus + Vegetable Magazine ("Profitable Strategies for Florida Growers").

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:19:42 -0800

NC: It's a conspiracy.

By: netbros

netbros — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:20:55 -0800

Uh-huh. Does that make the information less useful somehow?

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:26:50 -0800

No, but it makes it something I'd rather not see here.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:30:42 -0800

I like to know about things, especially vegan-friendly things. Yay!

By: BT

BT — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:38:02 -0800

Um...yes? A summary of the pluses and minuses of organic food as created by an agribusiness marketing publication is not, in my book, all that useful.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:45:14 -0800

Swine Practitioner? Damn. That's the best name they could find for their magazine?

By: netbros

netbros — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:53:49 -0800

If you know of a site that details pluses and minuses of organic food in a non-biased way, that would be more useful to those reading this information.

By: MrVisible

MrVisible — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:05:56 -0800

I'm afraid it doesn't answer my biggest question about asparagus: how to consume it without turning your every bodily fluid into a noxious concoction the mere smell of which can knock out a gas-masked Marine at thirty paces. Forgetting to mention that you've eaten asparagus in the past month when receiving oral sex should be grounds for criminal proceedings and/or divorce.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:06:10 -0800

If you know of a site that details pluses and minuses of organic food in a non-biased way, that would be more useful to those reading this information. Hey, netbros, don't get too defensive... people are gonna snark when there's a Pepsi-ish Blue-esque post, there's just no getting around that.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:06:20 -0800

BT, the section on organics is a lot more even-handed than most I've seen.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:30:24 -0800

Nice, detailed information about foods I like, and not asking me to buy anything. I'm not seeing the Pepsi Blue here. Of course they're biased. Toward fruit and veggies, yay! Plus, they even give you the nutrition info on produce, something you might be hard pressed to learn, say, at the checkout counter.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:44:21 -0800

The trouble with fruit and vegetables is that if you search you'll find they have bugs in them, to wit: Taro A critical error has occurred. EXECUTE permission denied on object 'func_GetLatestPCCIDByFeedID', database 'CCMS', owner 'dbo'.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:56:42 -0800

Permission denying is a cooking method somewhere between sauteeing and braising. Also, you don't have func_GetLatestPCCIDByFeedID in your pantry? What kind of cook are you?

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:44 -0800

The site is clueless when it comes to Belgian Endive, AKA "witloof" AKA "chicory". You can search on chicory (French) or endive, but not witloof (Dutch). But, the results show they don't know what to do with it (they say to just use it like curly endive). But hey, it's American. Also got an error when trying to view a recipe for Swiss chard. Could be a useful site, thanks for the post. But they really need to improve the mess.

By: BT

BT — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:14:14 -0800

Sorry if I was too reflexively critical. I disliked the industry-generated PR aspect of this, but that doesn't mean it can't be useful. It's good to know where eating advice comes from, is all.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:30:53 -0800

He's no Produce Pete.