What's the Difference Between Brown Sugars?

What’s the difference between the various types of brown sugar (light, dark, Demerara, turbinado, and muscovado)?

Building the Ultimate Green Kitchen

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The Alter Eco Chocolate bar gets the texture and the flavor right.

I received a gift of rice for Christmas (yeah, I know, months ago). It’s a blend of glutinous purple rice and jasmine rice from Alter Eco fair trade foods. I’d like some suggestions from this collection of wonderful...

It might be black rice and if so, WF and others carries it. Alter-Eco also makes purple jasmine rice. I love it, and have found it at Real Foods and Rainbow. The rice water ratio that works for me is 1c rice/1.5c H20.

Oakland also had Alter Eco fair trade bars in three flavors for 99 cents (3.5 ounces).

- HD almond & vanilla bars for $.89 and alter eco dark chocolate bars – 3.5 oz for $.99. Boxed broth quarts (chicken, beef) for $.99. and those little bags of chips that RW mentioned. And Ruth’s Peppperidge Farm...

At the Redwood City store today: Alter Eco Dark Mint chocolate bars, 99 cents (Really good if you like your mint chocolate VERY minty. It is not, repeat not, a subtle mint flavor.) Martinelli sparkling grape juice $1.59 Lots of...

The GO in West San Jose had AlterEco (fair trade) 100 gram chocolate bars for $1.99 in two varieties: dark chocolate with roasted almonds (which is also organic) and milk chocolate with cashews and raisins. Interestingly, on...

interesting..... like Living With Ed and the guy who used to be on This Old House. The star-studded Alter Eco is a bit much but has been interesting enough. I guess I’ve always been interested in construction/landscape/home...

. :) Candy aisle didn’t have specialty bars like Lindt, Alter Eco or Scharfenberger. Still waiting for those $1 bars to show up again. Lots of Essn juice choices at $.99.

Santa Rosa: Tons of Thai – instant meals, soup, noodles, etc. Indian too – Veetee packaged rice & new entree/rice combos. The latter are $1.99 Glutino cookies – chocolate & vanilla Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Velvet...

Alter Eco makes a great fair trade organic chocolate. I’ve tried a lot of fair trade organic chocolates, and Alter Eco is very different than the standards you have named. It is very smooth with a rich taste.

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of culinary asceticism if want to be environmentally conscious as well? What’s the right balance between being eco-friendly and being a full-fledged chowhood who loves to indulge and experience food?...