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    Good Food

    The Market Report: Spirulina

    This week at the Main Street Farmers Market in Santa Monica, Laura Avery shops for spirulina with botanist Paul Cathcart, who grows the blue-green algae at Go Spiral Farms in Vista, California. Learn how to cultivate this ancient superfood at home to get your daily dose of phytonutrients.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jul 14, 2017 • 1 min read

    This week at the Main Street Farmers Market in Santa Monica, Laura Avery shops for spirulina with botanist Paul Cathcart, who grows the blue-green algae at Go Spiral Farms in Vista, California. Learn how to cultivate this ancient superfood at home to get your daily dose of phytonutrients.

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    Tasting the Impossible Burger, salt, butter and spirulina
    1. 0:00Tasting the Impossible Burger
    2. 12:19Salt of the earth
    3. 23:28Jonathan Gold dines at Pizzana
    4. 31:26Spread the word
    5. 48:02The Market Report: SpirulinaYou’re reading this
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    Tasting the Impossible Burger, salt, butter and spirulina
    1. 0:00Tasting the Impossible Burger
    2. 12:19Salt of the earth
    3. 23:28Jonathan Gold dines at Pizzana
    4. 31:26Spread the word
    5. 48:02The Market Report: SpirulinaYou’re reading this
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