Food for Thought: Which kind of food insecurity do you have?

Sunday, January 4, 2026

Fortunately, FRAC successfully lobbied Congress to defeat cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and, through similar pressure, Healthy School Meals for All, serving free breakfast and lunch to our most vulnerable victims of food insecurity, avoiding proposals to defund the program thanks in large part to the numerous states that adopted the program. (New Hampshire is not among them.)

Food for Thought: The Rundown on Roundup, Part 2

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Yes, those photos from my last post have been updated to include an ingredient they all share. As do hundreds more. One that has human health and environmental advocates deeply concerned. Glyphosate.

Food for Thought: Time for some interactive ‘eater-tainment’

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Take the quiz!

Food for Thought: There’s a killer on the loose

Friday, March 27, 2026Sunday, September 7, 2025

Unless you’ve been living in a bomb shelter like Adam Webber in the 1999 cult favorite, Blast from the Past, you know that PFAS are bad. Bad for you, bad for the environment, bad at any level and cumulative in effect. Forever chemicals. Lingering in humans for years. And causing havoc.

Food for Thought: Short – but rarely sweet – by Carolyn R. Choate

Sunday, September 7, 2025Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Analyzing countless peer-reviewed scientific papers, including many interviews with experts on the impacts of chemical toxicity on humans and environment, as well as investors, the study shows PFAS in humans globally and in almost everyone tested.

Chews Life Now! Super Bowl 2025, repeat after me…

Wednesday, February 5, 2025Monday, February 3, 2025

Between the magic Mahomes and his receivers conjured weekly; the Cinderella debut of Commanders rookie QB, Jayden Daniels; the shoulda/woulda/coulda SB contenders Lions, Buffalo, Baltimore; or, ultimately, the cucumber cool of Eagles’ QB, Jalen Hurts, with a 14 & 3 regular season and the NFC championship – it never hurts to use a food metaphor when you’re a food writer – football is a lot like life.

Chews Life Now!: Processing a Better Life in 2025

Sunday, January 5, 2025Sunday, January 5, 2025

Lifestyle. It’s got to be one of most overused, abused, and misused buzz words of 2024. Along with mega-election and polycrises. Yet here I am promoting just that for the next 365 days ahead. Lifestyle.

The Chews Life Second Annual Very (Very) Vegan Christmas Spread

Friday, December 13, 2024Thursday, December 12, 2024

Let’s celebrate the season with a buffet of delish, easy to prepare holiday crowd pleasers to end the year or begin a new one. Being vegan doesn’t have to mean boring or tasteless. And always remember: eat to live, don’t live to eat!

Chews Life Now!: A Vegan’s Open Letter to Restaurants by Carolyn R. Choate

Monday, August 26, 2024

O P I N I O N CHEWS LIFE NOW By Carolyn R. Choate Dear New Hampshire Restaurateurs, Thanks to

Chews Life Now! Can you escape the plastic apocalypse?

Sunday, January 5, 2025Monday, March 18, 2024

Plastic. The world is swimming in it. Oceans. Landfills. Even our arteries. That, according to a recent study released in the March 7 edition of New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers studied the specimens of 304 patients who had undergone carotid endarterectomies – a procedure that removes plaque from dangerously narrowing arteries in the neck to avert stroke and/or heart attack.

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