Article: Heirloom ideas ; Local chef, farmer wants us to get back to our roots

Mario Capozzoli, a local chef and farmer, thinks people are forgetting the importance of food in family life and communities, so he launched his website, greatgrandmother.org, to remind us.

The name of his site comes from a book by journalist Michael Pollan called In Defense of Food. Pollan advises people not to eat or buy anything that their great -grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Capozzoli said he thought those instructions were simple enough and immediately set out to follow them and created his website to help others do the same. He launched the site in May, after months of research, and it is now getting over 5,000 hits a day.

"I don't want to take a real political stance. I'd ...

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