The Salt Exchange

For your reading and web-browsing pleasure:

• This story came out a little while back (March), but it's still very much worth taking a look at: Avery Yale Kamila writes about the Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick, which serves an exclusively vegetarian and organic menu to promote health and recovery. So cool.
• Do you "like" Rabelais Books on Facebook?
• Mmm. Take a look at this summer drink list from Bon Appetite Magazine. Beautiful, thist-quenching photographs, too.
• The New York Times tipsily meditates on / celebrates the Bloody Mary
• Are you sick of portable foods? Jason Kessler [of Bon Appetite] feels really strongly about this. 
• Read this wonderful piece on how Cultivating Community is working to make fresh, local, organic produce more available and accessible to lower income communities. (Support Cultivating Community - a true gift to the local food / farm community - here)
• Joe Appel explains why he believes there is no good American wine.
• Saving the best (ice cream) for last: On Facebook, Portland Press Herald writer Meredith Goad asked what people's favorite southern Maine ice cream shops are. Between her ask and our reposting of the question, many folks weighed in: Hodgeman's Frozen Custard in New Gloucester, Two Lights Ice Cream, Mount Desert Ice Cream on Exchange St. here in Portland, Maple's Organics, Willard Scoops in South Portland, Beals, Aggie's Farm Stand in South Berwick, apparently Silly's has some great ice cream, and Super Scoops in Falmouth (by Waldo's).