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Food for Thought Magazine, Spring 2008

Food for Thought Magazine, Spring 2008 Food for Thought Magazine: published four times each year, this high quality consumer magazine features agriculture’s role in health and wellness, the environment and food safety, as well as recipes and tips highlighting agri-business and made-in-Alberta products.

Reader comments are received daily and continuously highlight that the attractive layout and recipes entice consumers to read each issue and in doing so readers learn about the benefits and diversity of agriculture and food in Alberta through interesting and factual articles that highlight Alberta products and services.

We know that food, the environment, and your health and wellness are very important to you. With the support of our partners, we are proud to publish Food for Thought four times a year in a printed version you can pick up for free at your local grocery store and bimonthly in a format we email to you.

Food for Thought is a purely Albertan magazine devoted to bringing you new recipes and tips using Alberta food products, profiling the people working to bring safe and nutritious food to your table, and informing you about issues like food safety, agriculture's role in caring for the environment and animals, and the heritage and future of agriculture and food in Alberta.

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Features

* Off the Eaten Path
Try something different for dinner. Find out what the new white meat is.

* Revisit the Farm
Follow the country call and head to the farm for fun. Start planning now

* Backcountry Best
Katie Mitzel whips up Skoki Lodge gourmet food without running water or electricity.

* A Catered Affair
Your "small party" ballooned. Is it time to call in the pros?

* Dinner Takes All
Gamble on Alberta's expertise. Researchers coax the best from functional foods.

Departments

* A Message from Growing Alberta

* NEW! Food Studies
The University of Alberta studies organics

* Since You Asked
A dietician explains how to feed to win.

* A Day in the Life
At Mo-Na Food mushroom wholesalers, they put the "fun" in fungus

* Travel
Look south and east, to a veritable veggie paradise, but bring your sunglasses

* City Slicker
Jenn hits the road for dairy farm Bles-Wold. Hint: Just look for the cows

* Health and Safety
Backyard Bogeys: Dangers lurk in your backyard! Find out what they are and fix'em.

* Just for Kids
A big frosty glass of moo-juice puts you right.

* Picture Perfect
See what image April Demes captured in her backyard Asparagus patch.

Quick Bites

* Strong, Dark and Handsome
Edmonton owner and webmaster of Amber's Brewing Company, Jim Gibbon, seeks to offer deliciously unique beers that appeal to malt mavens.

* My Secret Ingredient
Josef Wiewer, Corporate Chef and part owner of the Wildwood Grill and Brewing Company shares his

* Eat 'n' Greet
Here are a couple of great Alberta food events happening this spring

* Soap of Hope
How do we minimize the number of chemicals being put into the water system, and ultimately our bodies?

* What's on Your Plate?
Consumers today are interested not just in new ways to prepare their food, but also in where it came from, and what its food was.

* Home Brew
There's nothing more irritating than a lousy cup of coffee. So invest a little time, and maybe a little money, slow down and learn to brew the perfect cup, thanks to the great advice from Wade Semograd of Calgary's Big Mountain Coffee Roasters.

* From Your Backyard
The Calgary Stampede's new program recognizes the importance of having a relationship with local producers.

Editor's Message:

Spring—Ahead? The great thing about magazine publishing is that you generally get to work a season in advance. So, while there is a severe wind-chill factor and the temperature is in the minus double-digits outside my window, our thoughts inside the office are focused on the excitement that spring brings.

In our health and safety column this issue, this time titled “Backyard Bogeys”, Lisa Ostrowski is making a list and checking it twice – only her list has to do with garden safety.

Planning for spring seems to make it come a little quicker.

And the season also brings thoughts about planning pretty parties. In Julie Van Rosendaal’s feature, “A Catered Affair”, she gets you started with a list of tips and a delectable finger-food menu. Her feature guides you, advising when it’s time to hang up your apron and call in the pros.

Caitlin Crawshaw takes off her apron and dons a lab coat as she ventures into the world of Alberta’s nutraceuticals and functional foods.

She’ll explain what they are and why they should matter to you. You may be making different decisions at your grocery check-out. Precious warm-weather weekends and short getaways are always popular. Rick Overwater pens a listing and some tips to get you started exploring some of Alberta’s great agriculture tourism destinations.

I’d like to issue a challenge to our readers! Agriculture tourism destinations are becoming very popular with many of our urban consumers and Growing Alberta would like to learn more about your adventures.

Send us a photo, along with a letter describing your Alberta getaway, and share your experience. Your story may be published and, if so, we’ll award you a unique Alberta prize basket. Send your submissions to Editor, Food For Thought, 10259-105 St., Edmonton, AB, T5J 1E3.

Watch for our Summer issue coming to you in May!

Maureen Osadchuk
Growing Alberta

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About Growing Alberta:

Launched in 1995, Growing Alberta is a non-profit organization supported by the Government of Alberta and industry that strives to increase consumers’ awareness of the province’s agriculture and food industry. We bring together producers, manufacturers and retailers in the effort to educate all Albertans about the scope and significance of the agri-food industry.

Growing Alberta creates opportunities for dialogue and discussion about the agricultural issues that matter while helping Albertans understand the potential and the possibilities that lie ahead.

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