Celebrate spring with this spinach and green pea empanada recipe.

Celebrate Spring with Spinach & Green Pea Empanadas

By Jared Koch / March 22, 2012 /

Welcome the first week of spring with a batch of these delicious empanadas filled with spring vegetables…

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Lower your carbon footprint with this bike delivery service.

Fresh Food Bike: A Whole Foods Concierge Who Delivers

By Jared Koch / March 22, 2012 /

Fresh Food Bike’s Naeem Tohid will shop for you at Whole Foods and deliver up to 100 pounds of groceries by eco-friendly bike…

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Starbucks has a line of fruit and vegetable juices called Evolution Fresh

Starbucks Gets in the Juice Game

By Jared Koch / March 21, 2012 /

“Juice and nutrition is no longer a fad. It’s a full-blown trend,” says Jeff Hansberry of Starbucks in USA Today…

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Sustainable Seafood Delivery System to Chefs

Sea to Table: Sustainable Seafood Delivered to Chefs’ Doors

By Jared Koch / March 20, 2012 /

Many Clean Plates chefs get their seafood from Sea to Table, a service that connects sustainable, wild fisheries to chefs nationwide…

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Borrow seeds to plant at no cost at this seed library in Venice.

At This Library, Borrow Seeds Instead of Books

By Jared Koch / March 19, 2012 /

A library full of books? How old fashioned. In Venice, The Seed Library of Los Angeles (SLOLA) is a lending library stocked with heritage, non-GMO, native vegetable and fruit seeds—no whispering required…

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Free Bread is based in Brooklyn and the owner is diagnosed with celiac.

From Pink Slip to Free Bread

By Jared Koch / March 14, 2012 /

The silver lining for Karen Freer after being fired from her administrative job last year? More baking time. Now she runs Free Bread, which sells delicious, gluten-free rolls in Williamsburg and online…

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A healthier version of Nigella Lawson's Guinness Chocolate Cake

Recipe Makeover: Guinness Chocolate Cake from Nigella Lawson

By Jared Koch / March 14, 2012 /

Guinness and chocolate make for a winning combination in this recipe from the Domestic Goddess herself, Nigella Lawson…

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Interview with Chef Abigail Hitchcock

A Conversation With Chef Abigail Hitchcock

By Jared Koch / March 13, 2012 /

The chef at Camaje talks about her new “cozy neighborhood spot,” Abigail…

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ABC Interview with Jared Koch.

ABC News Turns the Spotlight on Clean Plates

By Jared Koch / March 12, 2012 /

Clean Plates founder Jared Koch spoke to ABC News at Brooklyn restaurant Brucie.

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Interview with Jared Koch on Everyday Health

Clean Plates in the Everyday Health Spotlight

By Jared Koch / March 8, 2012 /

“If you do decide to indulge, eat it, enjoy it, and forget about it. Stress and guilt are worse than some unhealthy food.”…

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Chat with Vegan Chef Ayinde Howell of Wildflower

Chatting with Vegan Chef and Entrepreneur Ayinde Howell

By Jared Koch / March 8, 2012 /

Ayinde Howell is the visionary behind WildFlower, a vegan pop-up restaurant, as well as I Eat Grass, an online vegan community…

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Chef Ayinde's Black and Yellow Breakfast Potatoes

Black & Yellow Breakfast Potatoes

By Jared Koch / March 8, 2012 /

Vegan chef Ayinde Howell shares a simple recipe for breakfast potatoes…

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Healthy Scotch Egg Recipe

Recipe Makeover: Scotch Eggs

By Jared Koch / March 8, 2012 /

Try these Scotch eggs made with better-for-you ingredients like nitrate-free, organic sausage and whole wheat breadcrumbs…

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Health Hamantaschen recipe

Hamantaschen Recipe

By Jared Koch / March 8, 2012 /

This recipe for hamantaschen, a cookie traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday of Purim, uses natural sweetener, whole grain flour and other better-for-you ingredients…

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Five different brands of organic vodka.

Clean Spirits: Five Organic Vodkas

By Jared Koch / March 7, 2012 /

A vodka a day may not keep the doctor away, but drinking organic could help…

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Chat with the owner of Juicy Naam

Interview with The Juicy Naam’s Giuliana Torre

By Jared Koch / March 6, 2012 /

The Juicy Naam, located at The Hotel Wales on the Upper East Side, offers organic juices and smoothies, a full vegan/raw menu, and a wide selection of herbs, supplements and snacks…

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The Detox Market offers the best in all natural products.

The Detox Market: One-Stop Wellness

By Jared Koch / March 6, 2012 /

The Detox Market features eco-friendly, toxin-free products created by small companies, ranging from organic stone-ground Taza chocolates and detoxifying Kusmi teas to nail polish and perfume…

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Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein

Author Gabrielle Bernstein Answers The Clean Plates 5

By Jared Koch / March 5, 2012 /

Author, motivational speaker and life coach Gabrielle Bernstein joins us to answer the Clean Plates 5…

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Interview with Bareburger founder Euripides Pelekanos.

A Chat with Bareburger CEO & Founder Euripides Pelekanos

By Jared Koch / March 1, 2012 /

“We love meat, [but] we don’t want to eat meat from animals that have been raised in commercial feed lots,” says Bareburger CEO and founder Euripides Pelekanos…

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Peanut butter and jelly bar recipe s

Recipe Makeover: Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars

By Jared Koch / February 29, 2012 /

Our makeover of these Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars is packed with better-for-you ingredients…

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Chef Bill Telepan speaks of cooking seasonal food.

Interview with Seasonal Chef Bill Telepan

By Jared Koch / February 27, 2012 /

Chef Bill Telepan chats with writer Megan Murphy about his passion for seasonal cooking, helping make schools healthier, and more…

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A different healthy food for each film in the Oscars .

Oscars Potluck: A Food for Every Film

By Jared Koch / February 24, 2012 /

Pick up treats tied to the themes of this year’s winning films from Clean Plates-approved spots around town…

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Mushroom vendor grows crops in his trailer.

The Best Local Mushrooms Come From a Repurposed Trailer

By Jared Koch / February 24, 2012 /

At F & F Farms up in Moorpark, Fred Ellrott cultivates exquisitely delicious shiitake and oyster mushrooms…

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Interview with Severine von Tscharner Fleming, founder of the Greenhorns

The Greenhorns: Young Farmers Unite

By Jared Koch / February 20, 2012 /

“The Greenhorns are a posse of young people who care a lot about the future of agriculture,” explains the group’s director, Severine von Tscharner Fleming…

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