FEATURES
By Colleen Pierre and Colleen Pierre,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | April 1, 1997
Throughout my childhood summers, a crop of cucumbers dangled from my grandmother's fence. Even when I was a toddler, a pick-your-own trip to her back yard was the highlight of any visit. I could wash and eat that cuke, skin and all, while it was still sun-warm and juicy.I've been a cucumber addict ever since.For me, cucumbers make a salad. Their sweet, delicate flavor eased my transition from iceberg to the stronger-flavored salad greens.And when my parents' garden produced fresh cucumbers, our family indulged in a delicious, fat-free, simple-to-make cucumber and onion salad:Peel and thinly-slice any available cucumbers.
NEWS
May 11, 2010
In explaining the unhealthy eating habits that have fostered widespread obesity and other health problems in the inner city, Baltimore faces a chicken-and-egg (or, perhaps more accurately, Chicken McNugget-and-Egg McMuffin) issue: Do people not choose healthy foods because they are unavailable, or are healthy foods unavailable because people choose unhealthy ones? It's probably some of both. Supermarkets followed affluent residents to the suburbs, and the corner markets and convenience stores that remain rarely stock fresh fruits and vegetables.
BUSINESS
By Lorraine Mirabella and The Baltimore Sun | September 29, 2014
Cereal makers have long designed eye-catching boxes to lure children to supermarket breakfast aisles. Now, grocers and produce companies are turning to Big Bird and other "Sesame Street" characters in an effort to make fruits and vegetables just as appealing. An emerging national movement that uses the Muppets to market vegetables to preschoolers got a foothold in Baltimore last week when it was adopted by two area businesses — Mars Super Markets and Savage-based East Coast Fresh, a Mars vendor and processor of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables.
FEATURES
By Marty Ross and Marty Ross,UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE | August 3, 1997
When Eva Monheim makes table decorations for a party, she likes to use material straight from the garden: Swiss chard, green and red peppers, corn and great bunches of cherry tomatoes."
NEWS
By David Folkenflik and David Folkenflik,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | March 5, 1998
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to breathe new life into an initiative that has languished for five months, President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called on Congress yesterday to give the Food and Drug Administration authority to prevent foreign fruits and vegetables produced in unsanitary conditions from entering the country."
NEWS
By Jackie Powder and Jackie Powder,SUN STAFF | August 21, 2001
On a steamy morning in Annapolis, the food arrives in a tractor-trailer straight from the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market in Jessup - loaded with thousands of pounds of donated tomatoes, peaches, bananas, potatoes and corn. With the precision of a drill team, Food Link volunteers unload the food, divvy it up and cart it off to feed the hungry. "This is a good shipment today; there's an assortment of everything," says Charles Brown. "Last week they gave us plantains, and people don't particularly like them."