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Customers First Honorable Mention: Cold Stone Creamery

Cold Stone Creamery Despite all the mysteries of childhood, there was one thing I knew for certain: When September 2nd came around, I would celebrate my birthday with a cake made of chocolate and vanilla ice cream and crumbled Oreo ...READ»

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Trash to Treasure

Per Scholas is an organization that refurbishes old PCs for use by low-income families. Hershey's repurposes cocoa bean hulls to offer cocoa shell mulch for use by gardeners -- hardly Hershey's core business, but an impressive way to ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Charts You Can Eat (and Taste Sweet)

A French design firm creates chocolate bars that double as graphs about chocolate.READ»

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Lindt Dark Chocolate Lindor Truffles

Easter without Lindt Dark Chocolate Lindor Truffles Just Isn’t the Same Are you looking for a unique Easter gift, something to make that special occasion a little different and memorable?  Personalized Easter baskets are fun ...READ»

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From an Old-Fashioned Bank to an Heirloom Seed Bank

From the crumbling ashes of the fallen financial system rises a new type of bank: one for heirloom seeds. It sounds like the beginning of a post-apocalyptic novel, but it's really happening in Petaluma, California, where an abandoned ...READ»

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Rumor Mill: Vegetables from the White House Garden to be Sold at DC Farmer's Market

Ten years ago, few people could have imagined that the First Family would rip up part of the White House lawn and plant a vegetable garden. But that's exactly what happened in March, when Michelle Obama started work on a 1,100 ...READ»

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Roof Top Gardens

Peter, your query on Roof Top Gardens: Yokogawa Electric Asia in Singapore maintains a roof-top hydroponics garden. Here employees are allowed to grow their own vegetables like tomatoes, rock melon, cucumber for home consumption, ...READ»

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Delicious Growth

A report from the past.READ»

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At Cleveland Mall Green Market, Sustainability Is the New Hot Topic

Yesterday, we reported on the Cleveland Galleria mall's plan to build a massive urban greenhouse where retail shops once stood. The real story, it turns out, is what the two people behind the Gardens Under Glass project have planned ...READ»

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How to Make a Great Web-Curated Summer Meal

Seasonal pleasure in every Web-ordered bite.READ»

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Recreate the Obama White House Vegetable Garden--Online

We learned last week that the Obama's are working on a 1,100-square-foot White House vegetable garden to be cared for by local fifth graders and the first family. Now web-based vegetable-garden design application Plangarden has ...READ»

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Monsieur Chocolat

How do you say Willy Wonka in French? Celebrate Valentine's Day with confectioner Jacques Torres, who's applying mass production techniques to the delicate task of making fine chocolates--with delicious results.READ»

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A Farming Fairy Tale

Imagine that you could wave a wand--and make all our food organic.READ»

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7. Tasty Trader

Previous | Next When you want the best, you go to the source. John Scharffenberger is part of the vanguard of high-end chocolatiers in America who are reeducating palates numbed by eons of cheap milk chocolate. But as a ...READ»

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Organic Gardening

More and more consumer is looking for organic foods such as fruits and vegetables. Although organic crops are much expensive than ordinary fruits and vegetables people continuously buy organic crops.READ»

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FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine

FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine (12/13/2007)   A leader of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says he doesn't ...READ»

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Unilever's Room-Temperature Ice Cream is Green, But How Will it Taste?

Astronaut ice cream is a fun novelty treat for science-happy kids, but could Earth-bound adults ever warm up to the idea of room-temperature ice cream? That's what Unilever--the food company behind brands like Ben & Jerry's and ...READ»

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GOING GREEN and GIVING UP ALL THOSE CHEMICALS

GOING GREEN and GIVING UP ALL THOSE CHEMICALS the great living site - is for natural product for the home - for the kids - for the family - for gifts .. for anything and everything in your life .. Five advantages of going Certified ...READ»

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Innovation: Waiter, There's Too Much Pepper on My Paprikash

Correct! That line was spoken by Billy Crystal's character in 1989's "When Harry Met Sally," a film which had among its great themes that life is a menu of choices, and it's okay to be choosy. The movie's Sally Albright (Meg Ryan's ...READ»

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Just like bridal dresses

Just like bridal dresses, wedding cakes can also be trendy or obsolete. A traditional wedding cake is usually a white vanilla cake in towering stacked layers. However, as we move onto the year 2010, wedding cake trends are becoming ...READ»

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Consistency and the Customer Experience

I just made a lunch run, and while the experience wasn't as distracting or dismaying as Alison's experience with Starbucks in November, I'm thinking as I eat my sandwich. How consistent should customer service and experience be with ...READ»

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Organic Growth

As Wal-Mart and its ilk go natural, true believers are grumbling. But investors are chowing down.READ»

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Beefonomics: Cargill Meat Solutions Turns Trash to Cash

How Cargill Meat Solutions is winning over grocers, consumers, and its employees -- and driving growth -- with its first entry into the branded beef business.READ»

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7. Tasty Trader

Previous | Next When you want the best, you go to the source. John Scharffenberger is part of the vanguard of high-end chocolatiers in America who are reeducating palates numbed by eons of cheap milk chocolate. But as a ...READ»

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A Chocolate Maker is Buffeted By Global Forces Beyond His Control

How long can he stay profitable?READ»