I wrote a piece for PBS in which I analyzed all 15 food & beverage Super Bowl commercials from 2011 and all 15 from 2010. My goal? Determine the total calorie count of all the food that appears on screen in each ad. You can read my piece HERE. Let me know what you think!

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  Let me get this out of the way right up front. It’s sad that Paula Deen has diabetes, and I’m not trying to mock the very real emotional and physical issues she is dealing with. Diabetes being as prevalent as it is, is one of the reasons I am passionate about cooking and eating better. The culture that [...]

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Last nights episode of The Simpsons took a stab at the “Foodie” culture that has given rise to an abundance of food blogs, a second channel for the food network, more PBS food shows and expanded food related culture on other networks. (Not shown Guy Fieri riding Paul Prudhomme as a bouncy ball) Between the Simpsons and Ted Allens recent video [...]

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Every once in a while, when I am waiting in line at a drug store or super market, I will notice those ubiquitous little bottles of energy potion that I always assumed could double for antifreeze. Well, as I read in the WSJ today, apparently I am not the only one noticing. According to the [...]

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When you’re here, you’re family – especially if that family is full of boozehounds.  It seems that on March 31, a Florida Olive Garden mistakenly gave a toddler a sippy cup full of sangria instead of the orange juice that was ordered.  According to an AP report from today: Jill VanHeest says she took her [...]

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Every December or January, armchair Nostradamuses try to predict what is in and what is out. As you all know by now, the ever-present cupcake has permeated our culture to an absurd level. There are now cupcake stores on way too many corners, and prognosticators are signaling their demise (finally!) due to a saturated marketplace. [...]

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What was I thinking? A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about McDonald’s in which I made a comment about the “quality” of their food.  I can now see the error in my ways.  I had no right to take such an obvious shot at a company that is doing the best it can [...]

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From the sustainability desk of So Good comes a news story about an idea to transform one of the most recognizable consumer icons for the good of the planet.  The object: the Coca-Cola bottle.  The idea: to turn the famous curves of the bottle into a rectangular shape for the following reasons, according to the [...]

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They’ve picked up quotes from So Good probably a dozen times in the past 2 years, but it’s been a while! Thanks for your continued readership guys.

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Nice quote from So Good’s post about the FDA’s warning to Cheerios in this morning’s edition of the Washington Post Express Blog Log.

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