I went to an interesting discussion panel last night about the benefits of eating locally grown produce and ingredients. I was impressed by how much produce has to travel before it finds itself on my plate — the average distance they cited was 1,500 miles! And, to survive that travel, it has to be picked [...]
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We’ve begun to grow the blogroll, and contact blogs who might be interested in partnering with us. There are a ton of great food-blogs out there, and we are looking for those that share our passion for interesting and exotic ingredients and/or exploring the local markets. We hope to offer bloggers and small recipe sites [...]
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Cooks Compass was originally written in classic ASP, and currently runs on an ASP server. If you are a developer, you are probably wondering why on God’s Green Earth we would make such a decision. If you are like everyone else, you’ve probably stopped reading at this point! But there was good reason for us [...]
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At long last, we’ve unveiled the store owner’s section. Now people can sign up and use our free tools to promote their store. We hope this will be a win-win scenario for all involved, store owners will be able to inform our users about what they do, and our users will have more to look [...]
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