A few of our favorite links ... (to people, organizations, blogs and, coming soon, books)

Restaurants & Chefs   Aquavit www.aquavit.org Aquavit is the New York restaurant of Chef Marcus Samuelsson. Marcus is featured on our Fair Trade Raw Cane Sugar packaging. Restaurant Nora www.noras.com America's first certified organic restaurant. It's owned by Nora Pouillon, a staunch supporter of Wholesome Sweeteners' products. T'afia Restaurant www.tafia.com T'afia is the Houston restaurant owned by renowned chef Monica Pope. Monica is featured on our Organic Sugar packaging. Tru Restaurant www.trurestaurant.com This Chicago Restaurant is home to award-winning Chef Gale Gand. Gale is featured on our Fair Trade Organic Light & Dark Brown Sugar packaging along with a couple of her delicious recipes. Mani Niall's Test Kitchen www.manistestkitchen.com Many of the recipes you'll find in Wholesome Sweeteners Recipe Library were developed in Mani's Test Kitchen. Mani provides an array of client services to help companies both small and large benefit from having their own virtual in-house test kitchen. Mani specializes in food-related R&D, new flavor profiles, scale-up problem solving and ingredient prodcurement for new and unique taste sensations... Eaturna www.eaturna.com/ At Eaturna, they’re not out to change the world—just the way it eats with emphasis on only the finest ingredients, from organic flour, to antibiotic- and hormone-free meats and poultry. Everything on their menu is always chef-created, freshly-prepared, and delivered daily in to Los Angeles-area purveyors, so there is no need to use preservatives or additives (even some of their containers are all-natural and fully compostable!). Bryant Terry www.bryant-terry.com Memphis, Tennessee native Bryant Terry is a nationally recognized eco-chef, author and food justice activist, and he is currently a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg Foundation. In 2001, Bryant founded b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth) to raise awareness about food justice issues and empower low-income youth. He is the co-author with Anna Lappé (foreword by Eric Schlosser) of "Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), and he is working on "Organic Soul" which will be published by Da Capo/Perseus in 2009. Larry's Beans www.larrysbeans.com/ Larry's Beans' purpose in life is to concoct wondrously luscious works of coffee and make the world better at the same time. They slow roast in ridiculously small batches to bring out every rich layer of indigenous flavor. One hundred percent of our coffee is Fair Trade, Shade Grown and Organic or Transitional Organic. (Larry's Beans' Organic and Fair Trade practices are certified and audited by Quality Certification Services.)Larry's Beans honors the work of their farming partners by transforming the extraordinary beans into marvelous coffees.   Blogs Apartment Theraphy: The Kitchn www.thekitchn.com/ The Kitchn (typo intended) is a site for people who like to get their hands dirty while they cook. It is for those who care about the quality of their food, and how it affects the health of themselves and the planet. It is also for those who want to cook more, but are shy in the kitchen. It’s a place to dive in deep, and embrace the joy of one of our basic needs: food. Their aim is to inspire cooks and nourish homes. The Bakers Dozen www.bakersdozen.org/ The Bakers Dozen is a group that's passionate about baking. Members include professionals, home bakers, and just about anyone who loves baking or wants to get started. The Bakers Dozen shares its collective knowledge and experience through educational and networking events. It is also committed to sharing the money realized from membership fees and payments for attending seminars with food-related and other charities. Culinate www.culinate.com Culinate is more than just a website; it’s an ongoing conversation about learning to eat well. Culinate's content — articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, food news, blog posts — helps people put real food at the center of their lives. After all, food is fundamental. We make dozens of decisions about it every day: what to eat, where to buy it, how to prepare it. But there’s more to dinner than meets the eye. Where does our food come from? How is it produced? What does the phrase “you are what you eat” mean in the 21st century? Culinate is a place for eaters who are asking just these kinds of questions. Making food choices that fuse health, community, and the environment isn’t always easy, but it’s effort well spent. At Culinate, they help you eat to your ideal. Culinate invites you to take your place at the table, and join the conversation The Ethicurean: Chew the Right Thing www.ethicurean.com eth•i•cu•re•an n. (also adj.) Someone who seeks out tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical — SOLE food, for short. Kitchen Caravan www.KitchenCaravan.com Welcome to Kitchen Caravan! Through weekly episodes of the Kitchen Caravan online cooking show, learn how to prepare healthy food using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Their recipes blend journeys to far off lands with the comforts of home and the pleasure of good company. With the kitchen as your caravan, let your imagination whisk you away! Lesley Chesterman www.lesleychesterman.com./ LESLEY CHESTERMAN has been the fine-dining critic of The Montreal Gazette since 1999. She also contributes Critic's Notebook, focusing on food and wine trends, and restaurant etiquette, as well as a question and answer column, Eater's Digest, to the Gazette's Food Section. Lesley's blog-- Lesley Chesterman: Montreal Restaurants, Recipes & All Things Delicious--is an inspiring collection of restaurant reviews, cookbook reviews, product reviews and recipes. Doses of Nourishment www.dosesofnourishment.blogspot.com/ A place to find nutritional information, advice, recipes, information on new products and a few healthy tips along the way from an animal-loving Registered Nutritionist and Nutritional Counselor. Latest Addictions latestaddictions.blogspot.com/ Written by a mom who has decided to leave the world of the working and stay home to raise two young children. She's an innovative cook who experiments with different family-friendly recipes. This blog documents the journey. Check out her amazing recipe at: http://latestaddictions.blogspot.com/2009/06/whole-wheat-oatmeal-flax-and-dark.html Fitness & Spice www.fitnessandspice.com/ Fitness & Spice … where fitness, food, and fashion get a healthy shake! Follow along for healthy living tips, tricks, ideas, and product reviews. EcoMama's Guide to Living Green ecomamasguidetolivinggreen.blogspot.com Written by EcoMama,information junkie, organic foods advocate, greenie, veg foodie, and mother of a wonderful eco kid, this blog is filled with great tips for living (and eating) "Green." Steph Chows: healthy eating ... that tastes good stephchows.blogspot.com Steph Chows is a journey into the world of healthy eating, while making it taste just as good as the “bad” stuff. As her Nana said, "everything in moderation," but as her Grandpa said, "Life is short, eat dessert first!" An Apple A Day blueskyworld.wordpress.com Written by a Yogi and self-proclaimed perfectionist, healthy living has always been part of Junghwa's life. As a high-raw vegan/vegetarian, she thrives on Kabocha, apples, raw vegetables, and water (of course!). Eating Bird Food http://www.eatingbirdfood.com/2010/04/sweet/ Brittany is a 20 something marketing professional living in Richmond, VA. She loves food, cooking, baking, and reading cookbooks. She enjoys finding new recipes, exercise ideas, and meeting others who are interested in these topics. When she's not online or in the kitchen, she likes to be active. Whether it’s running, hiking, walking, taking an aerobics class, doing yoga, strength training, cleaning, shopping, or simply walking her dog- the activity doesn’t really matter so long as she's moving. She started reading other food blogs and soon wanted to have space of my own so she began Eating Bird Food in March 2008.   Kids (& their parents!) momsnaturally.org momsnaturally.org Moms Naturally focuses on down-to-earth, healthy cooking, tailored to specific needs. While some of us may have specific dietary needs, we do share common ground as moms. When we choose food for our families, it must be healthy, simple, and taste good. Moms Naturally invites you to sit down and visir for a while, and sample a few of our recipes. Kiwi Magazine www.kiwimagonline.com KIWI is dedicated to helping parents raise their children the healthiest way possible. Their charge is to introduce families to the latest in natural and organic living—showing how to practice this lifestyle on an everyday basis. KIWI knows that achieving the right balance between the real world and the ideal world is often difficult. Our lives are busy and our families' schedules are often simply out of our control. So, KIWI's mission is to help you make the best choices, with the best information available, in the shortest amount of time. mom-a-licious www.mom-a-licious.com domenica catelli is a renowned chef and dedicated mom to Chiara (to whom domenica is completely mom-a-licious). Being mom-a-licious is much more than cooking great food and being fabulous. It's about a lifestyle. With the help of moms all over the country, domenica has written the ‘mom-a-licious manifesto‘, 16 virtues that domenica believes make someone truly ‘mom-a-licious.' With those 16 points as the foundation, domenica offers parents great tips on raising heathly eaters--and so much more! Teens Teaching Teens www.teensteachingteens.net Great Food – Awesome Life! Starring 16 year old Chef Landon Bell, stage and TV performer. Chef Landon, also a Jr. Guard and surfer, has learned a lot about making teen friendly food - delicious and healthy too. Now he shares his methods for keeping fueled and focused for the high demands of teen life! Join Landon in the kitchen with Wholesome Sweeteners products and learn easy recipes for muffins, cakes, chili, cornbread, tacos, pasta and much more! KABOOSE http://www.kaboose.com/ One of the world's largest family-focused media companies devoted to inspiring and informing moms at every stage--from planning for baby to planning for college. We love this site's resources and ideas--from crafts to food, daycare to funding tuition--and all of it from an environmentally and socially responsible perspective.   Non-profits & NGOs   TransFair USA www.transfairusa.org TransFair USA is our third-party certifier of Fair Trade products (the only such organization in the US). TransFair USA is a member of the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO). Organic Trade Association www.ota.com The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is the membership-based business association for the organic industry in North America. OTA's mission is to encourage global sustainability through promoting and protecting the growth of diverse organic trade. The Organic Center www.organic-center.org The Organic Center generates credible, peer-reviewed scientific information and communicates the verifiable benefits of organic farming to our bodies and our environment. Mission Organic 2010, is a special campaign led by the OC to increase Americans' organic food consumption to 10% (from the current 2%) by the year 2010. Quality Assurance International (QAI) www.qai-inc.com Independent, third-party organic certification organization (Wholesome Sweeteners is currently certified by QAI) SafeLawns.org www.safelawns.org Homemade Organic Lemonade, sweetened with Organic Fair Trade Sugar of course, is the perfect thing to enjoy on your organic lawn! As you know, Wholesome Sweeteners advocates an environmental approach to living as well as sweetening. SafeLawns.Org is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting healthy, chemical-free lawns across the country. Feingold Association of America www.feingold.org An organization of families and professionals, The Feingold® Association of the United States is dedicated to helping children and adults apply proven dietary techniques for better behavior, learning and health. It is a non-profit public charity chartered under section 501(C)3 of the Internal Revenue tax code. edurelief www.edurelief.org Wholesome Sweeteners is proud to sponsor edurelief's efforts to break the cycle of poverty, improve the quality of life and encourage hope for people around the world through sustainable education, training and advocacy on their behalf. Center for Ecoliteracy www.ecoliteracy.org The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. The Center is a pioneer in providing tools, ideas, and support for combining hands-on experience in the natural world with curricular innovation in K–12 education. It was founded in 1995 by Fritjof Capra, Peter Buckley, and Zenobia Barlow. Slow Food USA www.slowfoodusa.org Slow Food USA envisions a future food system that is based on the principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice--in essence, a food system that is good, clean and fair. The Organic & Non-GMO Report www.non-gmoreport.com/ The Organic & Non-GMO Report is the only monthly newsletter that provides information you need to respond to the challenges of genetically modified (GM) foods. Fair Trade Resource Network www.ftrn.org The Fair Trade Resource Network is an information hub designed to grow the fair trade movement. Together, we can create a market that values the people who make the food we eat and the goods we use. From the Garden to the Table www.g2t.org Founded and led by Chef Jeffrey Smith, From the Garden to the Table's purpose is to promote the health and physical, academic, and creative development of youth. FGTT is grounded in working with families and communities with low income, opportunity, and access. They teach and model organic, green, and sustainable growing, eating, cleaning, and building practices to impact the health and future of vulnerable youth and the teachers, parents, and communities that surround them.   For a Greener World   IdealBite idealbite.com Ideal Bite is a free (and very hip) tip service for all things 'light green' - things that are easy to do and add up to positive changes for our families and our environment! Sinless Buying Inc. www.sinlessbuying.com A distributor of paper products made from bagasse (sugar cane fiber from sugar mills). Green LA Girl greenlagirl.com/ ecomii.com www.ecomii.com ecomii™ was created to specifically address the need for a single credible and comprehensive resource for everything healthy and green. ecomii believes that accuracy, objectivity and transparency are very important considering the amount of new “green” products on the market and conflicting information about what we can do to make a difference.   Corporate Partners   Billington's www.billingtons.co.uk Billington’s is a diverse, international foods and agriculture group. It is one of Britain’s largest, privately owned family businesses, recognized for quality, service and innovation. Established in 1858, it has nearly 150 years of knowledge and experience in organic and all-natural farming and extensive expertise in sourcing the finest quality sugars across the globe. In 1992, Billington’s was the first company in the world to bring a certified organic sugar to market. Wholesome distributes Billington's Unrefined Gourmet Sugars across North America. Imperial Sugar www.imperialsugar.com The Imperial Sugar Company is the one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the United States, tracing its roots back to 1843 when the first sugar mill was commissioned (in what later became the city of Sugar Land) by one of the original 100 families that Stephen F. Austin brought to settle Texas. The Imperial Sugar Company sells several of the best-known brands in the US and is a major supplier to the mass retail, food ingredient and food service markets.   Media Chefs A' Field www.chefsafield.com/show_203.php A PBS Television series that features half hour programs exploring the relationship between chefs and their food sources. Wholesome Sweeteners' Sucanat has been featured. VegTV www.vegtv.com/Recipes Website of Chef Marie Oser's popular tv show; Included on the site is a video interview with Pauline McKee, Marketing Director at Wholesome Sweeteners. Marie Oser is a best-selling author, Managing Editor at ecomii (http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/) and host/producer of VEGTV. A vegan lifestyle expert, and environmental advocate with a focus on nutrition and its role in disease prevention, Oser specializes in creating original gourmet recipes with a solid nutritional bottom line. EverydayDish.tv www.everydaydish.tv Julie Hasson is totally inspired by great tasting, healthy food all created from plant based ingredients. She likes to share her passion with others. Here you will find delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, kid-friendly food, appetizers and fabulous desserts, which are as much fun to watch as they are to eat. She'll walk you through, step-by-step and show you just how easy, great tasting vegetarian meals can truly be.   Food Science & Health American Diabetes Association www.diabetes.org The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading 501(C)3 nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Linus Pauling Institute @ Oregon Health Sciences University lpi.oregonstate.edu The Linus Pauling Institute's mission is to determine the function and role of vitamins and essential minerals (micronutrients) and chemicals from plants (phytochemicals) in promoting optimum health and preventing and treating disease and help people everywhere achieve a healthy and productive life, full of vitality, with minimal suffering, and free of cancer and other debilitating diseases. NutritionData.com NutritionData.com Nutrition Data's continuing goal is to provide the most accurate and comprehensive nutrition analysis available, and to make it accessible and understandable to all. The information in Nutrition Data's database comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed in the footnotes of that food's analysis page. In addition to food composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary tools to analyze and interpret that data. Cooking for Engineers www.cookingforengineers.com Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read! It's really great fun to understand the how's and why's of it all... The Accidental Scientist: The Science of Cooking www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/index.html Discover how a pinch of curiosity can improve your cooking! Explore recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking. (This site is brought to us all buy those fascinatng folks at San Francisco's Exploratorium.)   Books ... for the curious and for cooks There are so many amazing books out in the world ... we wanted to share our favorites with you! Sweet! by Mani Niall From agave to turbinado, home baking with every kind of natural sugar and sweetener. With more than 100 recipes, this is a treasure-trove of dazzling recipes. Mani brings years of experience (and helpful hints) to each recipe. Every page brings new inspiration!