With Hannukah nearing and Christmas around the corner, Holiday Sweets are in abundance. Today's segment will look at sweets, what they do to the body and natural options that your tastebuds will never notice the difference.

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Healthy Holiday Sweets

Qeenie's LLC and Queenies Kitchen Southern Seasonings are as the saying goes , delightful seasonings from the tradition of the Iron Lady of the South, Taking Southern Cooking everywhere. Owner and creative seasoning designer Rosie Ogden of Riverside California joins Real Food Empire to talk about what inspired her to start the company and her delicious Southern Seasoning blends. Since 2013 Queenie's LLC has been in partnership  with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) in honor of Queen Ester Brown the matriarch of her family, and a portion of the proceeds goes to this organization  For more information go to http://www.queeneskitchen.com/default.html

Queenie's Kitchen Southern Seasonings

Every year since 2009, on December 10th Slow Food International has celebrated it's founding with Terra Madre Day . Food communities and Slow Food convivia around the world celebrate eating locally and sustainable local food production in more than a 1,000 events: collective meals, community festivals, protests, workshops for children, excursions to producers and much more are held to promote local food traditions and demonstrate the Slow Food philosophy of good, clean and fair food to communities, media and decision makers. This year is special because it is the 25th anniversary of the Global Slow Food movement. Real Food Empire is celebrating Terra Madre Day with stories from the USA. Guests Jeremy Brown of Washington State, Slow Food USA Executive Director Richard McCarthy of New York, and Brenda Ruiz of Sacramento California will share how they are celebrating Terra Madre Day in their own communities. To find out more about Terra Madre Day go to http://www.slowfood.com/terramadreday/?-session=query_session:6394B43B1d8b60F3FBIpFFC18AE0 and for more information about Slow Food USA go to http://www.slowfoodusa.org/

Terra Madre Day in the USA

December 5, 2014 is the launch of World Soil Day, a new campaign by the Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO) a Rome-based United Nations agency. Soils have been neglected for too long. We fail to connect soil with our food, water, climate, biodiversity and life. We must challenge this tendency and take up some preserving and restoring actions for the resource that produces 95% of the world's food supply. The World Soil Day campaign aims to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives. This campaign is also the launch for 2015, the FAO International Year of Soils. Ms. Sally Bunning will join this segment, and is senior official for Land and Soils at the FAO, where she has worked since 1989. A geographer from the United Kingdom, she has a long professional focus on watershed and sustainable agro-ecosystem management. She was based for 10 years in Africa, working on an integrated natural resources project in Benin, on a soil and water managemen consultant in Ethiopia and teaching university students in Malawi. She is also an expert on desertification and on early-warning systems for land-use issues. For more information on World Soil Day and the FAO Activities, please go tohttp://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/world-soil-day/en/ and http://www.fao.org/soils-portal/en/

World Soil Day 2014

October is National Pizza Month in the United States. A nation that consumes 3 billion Pizza's a year certainly should celebrate this diverse and delicious food. There are many environmental and health consequences associated with America's favorite savory pie, but Real Food Empire shows how we truly can have our pizza and eat it too! This segment will show the true innovaters in Pizza making the planet a more delicious and better place to live!

Celebrate Pizza!

Exploring the delicious journey of how to eat for the health of your body, your soul the land and community. Cooking, gardening, Farming, Health and more!