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- 15 Jun 2016
- News
This Startup Wants to Put Unusual Vegetables on Your Plate
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
tablespoons tamarind paste ¼ cup Canola vegetable oil 1 medium onion (finely chopped) 2 medium tomatoes (finely chopped) 2 inches of fresh ginger (finely chopped) 1 small green chili (finely chopped) 1 clove of garlic (finely chopped) 1... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Nourishing the Next Generation
says. Today, California-based Chefables prepares more than 30,000 fresh, from-scratch, and mostly organic meals: think vegetable chow mein, edamame hummus, chicken shawarma, and whole-grain pastas shaped like bunnies or bears—a day for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
working with difficult-to-handle items, including hard-to-scoop ice cream, gloopy guacamole, and prepped fruits and vegetables of various sizes (the Dexai name is a portmanteau of dexterous and AI). Stats: Headquartered in Somerville,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Fresh Approach to Urban Farming
of wastage that you would see in green vegetables when you’re transporting from one country to another. So we end up having a much more productive farm that we can price at a competitive level. “I think about it as getting back to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other uses—like a $100,000 root View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
California’s Kern County, Florez hauled irrigation pipe around rose and vegetable fields for up to twelve hours a day in triple-digit heat, a job for which he received no overtime pay. “Before I leave I want to attempt to have an argument... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a program to distribute View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Chili recipes
canned or homemade chicken broth 4 pounds beef chuck, trimmed of excess gristle and fat, cut into 2-inch chunks Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large onion, finely diced 4 medium cloves garlic,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
one-third overweight, the sick care system (it has nothing to do with health) can't keep up. The fix for this is in the realm of public policy. In a country where one of the major political parties denies climate change and pizza counts as a View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
that's not likely to happen with the Trust during his lifetime. His hope is just to leave the world a little better than he found it. And he's certain he can build communities along the way. He's even doing it in his own backyard when he hands his neighbors a little... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
industry, Behn says. “We know that nature doesn’t produce perfectly homogenous output,” he says. “The variability is normal, and it’s actually endearing.” It’s also less costly. Imperfect fruit and vegetables cost about 30 percent less... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
support and market their film,” says Simon, senior director of marketing at Hain Celestial, a leading natural and organic food company based in New York and maker of Terra Chips, a brand of unique vegetable chips, including its signature... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Heifer International, the anti-poverty organization perhaps best known for its livestock donation program. “We can do this by building businesses. We are putting families in commerce. They are not just growing vegetables in a garden. They... View Details