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Press Releases • In the News

January 14, 2008

Inaugural Eating Starts on the Road to D.C.
As the hungry hordes converge on Washington, Eat Well Guide has them covered. Traveling from New York or Chicago? Print out ready-to-go driving directions highlighted with sustainable food vendors all along your route. Driving to the nation's capitol from some other town? Two minutes with Eat Well Everywhere will give you a custom trip book with the best co-ops, restaurants, and B&Bs along the way that serve up local, sustainably produced food.

November 13, 2008

Consumers Union and Eat Well Guide Launch Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge
Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and Eat Well Guide, North America’s premier free online directory for finding local, sustainable food, have partnered to launch the Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge. The Thanksgiving Challenge aims to inspire Americans to learn more about local, sustainable or organic food by using Eat Well Guide’s comprehensive online tool for finding local ingredients for at least one dish they will prepare as part of their holiday meal. Eat Well Guide Director Destin Joy Layne adds, “For Americans, Thanksgiving is the year’s peak travel weekend, but there’s no reason the food for our feasts has to travel thousands of miles as well. This is the perfect time to use our interactive Eat Well Guide to find locally produced turkey, fruit, vegetables, baked goods, dairy, meat and more, wherever you live.”
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August 18, 2008

Cultivating the Web to Debut at Slow Food Nation: Eat Well Guide’s new book highlights digital tools for farmers & foodies
In Cultivating the Web, leading environmentalist and prize winning author Bill McKibben (The End of Nature, Deep Economy) notes, "It is undeniably odd and lovely that among the most important parts of our food system - a little behind rain and sun and seed - are the new digital tools that allow us to bypass the big advertisers, the mega-chains, the junk peddlers, and instead find all the other people growing, processing, cooking and eating actual, delicious food." As Eat Well Guide director Destin Layne put it, “Although it may seem the most unlikely of catalysts, digital technology is jogging our memories of real food and agrarian culture. We may be going back to the land, but lots of us are bringing our smart phones and laptops along.”
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April 22, 2008

It's Earth Day—Green Your Fork & Help Save the Planet: Eat Well Guide to Launch Green Fork Blog
This Earth Day, the team at the Eat Well Guide, www.eatwellguide.org, is launching a new blog called The Green Fork, to continue helping conscientious eaters find resourceful information that highlights leaders in the fight for good food. The Eat Well Guide, which hosts thousands of listings of small-scale farms, restaurants, and other "green food outlets" throughout the US and Canada, continues to expand by including produce farms, farmers markets and vegan restaurants, as well as "Water-Conscious" ratings that inform consumers about local restaurants that are moving away from the ecologically unsound bottled water trend. The Eat Well team is currently at work on new cutting edge features to make it easier than ever to eat greener, including an interactive mapping and travel feature due to hit the Web this summer.
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