Film Crews Visit Kona Sea Salt™ for PBS Series
Lights! Camera! Action! This was the start to the new year for Kona Sea Salt™, as a film crew out of Chicago came to visit and learn more about our Hawaiian, deep, sea salt.
The Chicago based company, Luminair, is the producer of the very popular series "Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless." now in it's 8th season on PBS. WTTW in Chicago is the distributor of the Bayless series and is the production partner for a new TV series for PBS tentatively called "Flavor Hunting with Chef Craig Priebe."
Restaurant Chefs Boiling Over NYC Mayor's Salt Crackdown
NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bloomberg yesterday defended his latest nanny initiative — a controversial crackdown on salt — by comparing the simple seasoning to killer asbestos in the classroom.
"If we know there's asbestos in a school room what do you expect us to do?" Bloomberg shot back at reporters questioning his new initiative. "Say it's not our business? I don't think so. The same thing is true with food and smoking and a lot of things.
"Salt and asbestos, clearly both are bad for you," Bloomberg continued. "Modern medicine thinks you shouldn't be smoking if you want to live longer. Modern medicine thinks you shouldn't be eating salt, or sodium."
Read more: Restaurant Chefs Boiling Over NYC Mayor's Salt Crackdown
New York City Mayor Bloomberg Declares War on Salt
Emboldened by successful drives to reduce smoking, obesity and the use of trans fats in New York city, mayor Michael Bloomberg today opened a new front in healthy living for New Yorkers by launching a campaign to reduce consumption of salt.
The campaign, called the National Salt Reduction Initiative, aims to cut the quantities of sodium in packaged and restaurant foods by a quarter over five years. The city claims that if the 2014 target is met it will help save many thousands of premature deaths.
Americans consume on average about 3,400 milligrams of salt a day – well above the recommendation of the American Heart Association of less than 2,300 milligrams. Most of that is out of the individual consumer's hands as almost 80% of salt intake is already added to packaged and restaurant foods and only about 11% added in the home.
Read more: New York City Mayor Bloomberg Declares War on Salt
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