Helen Labun
CommentatorHelen Labun has worked in Vermont nonprofits addressing issues in rural economic development. Today, she is Executive Director of the Vermont Fresh Network, connecting chefs to Vermont farmers in support of the local food economy.
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Facial recognition technology for chickens is not a completely ridiculous idea.Okay, it is a completely ridiculous idea - but that doesn鈥檛 necessarily鈥�
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Every year the people of Iceland enjoy a phenomenon called the Christmas Book Flood. And while I appreciate the image of books flowing through Icelandic鈥�
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Amazon鈥檚 planned purchase of high end grocery chain Whole Foods introduces a lot of questions - many of them around technology, delivery, and the future鈥�
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I鈥檒l ski over almost anything. I figure I need about a 60:40 snow to mud ratio. Or snow to ice. Snow to puddles gets a little tricky. But I鈥檒l ski around鈥�
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By now, we're well into a holiday-time tradition - the annual bestowing of advice to home cooks who entertain. From November 1st until midnight on the鈥�
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Whenever I go on vacation, my perspective on everyday life shifts... to an angle that lets me believe many implausible, yet optimistic, things. On鈥�
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There鈥檚 a fancy restaurant in Quebec, which will remain nameless, that recently served me a poorly prepared omelet. And I was okay with it.This particular鈥�
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At the end of March, Chef Dan Barber from Blue Hill Restaurant in New York City experimented for two weeks with menus composed of food waste. And people鈥�
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Every five years, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee releases a new set of recommended changes to national nutritional policy.These updates reflect鈥�
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The health conscious mother of my college roommate used to tell her kids that Saltines were 鈥渃ookies.鈥� The logic went that little kids haven鈥檛 actually鈥�