PCC in the news
Giving up gluten
Supermarket News — January 17, 2011
Food retailers are easing the burden borne by celiac sufferers.
The story feature's a customer's plight with shopping for gluten-free foods. Lisa Garza, PCC shopper and author of the Gluten Free Foodies blog, travels to her nearest PCC Seattle location twice monthly from her Bainbridge Island home. Its because other retailers don't understand her needs like PCC. Lisa is a celiac consumer and PCC's gluten-free identification system, staff training program and consumer resources make shopping for gluten-free groceries easy. This past May, PCC became the first retailer to gain gluten-free endorsement from the Gluten Intolerence Group of North Amercia
Sustainable seafood
Bellevue Reporter — June 4, 2010
How you can help sustain the ocean’s bounty for future generations.
Karen Gaudette, PCC’s food writer, writes how consumers have a major role in protecting sustainable seafood supplies. “Buying fish from abundant, well-managed fisheries helps support healthy oceans for future generations.” The article refers consumers to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program.
PCC helps make a wish come true
The Daily Herald — June 4, 2010
A young cancer patient's wish to meet a chef and watch the taping of a televised cooking show was answered by PCC.
PCC Cooks instructor Iole Aguero taught a hands-on pasta class to six-year old Eleanor "Ella" Sultan and her friends at the Edmonds PCC. Ella also took part in the taping of a cooking segment on KING-TV's "Gardening with Ciscoe" with host Meeghan Black and PCC chef Lynne Vea. Watching cooking shows was a favorite diversion for Ella while recuperating from hospital stays and medical treatments.
GROW bananas and Project Amigo
The Enterprise — May 12, 2010
The Daily Herald — May 18, 2010
There's a special connection between GROW bananas sold at PCC and Project Amigo, a literacy program for children based in Mexico.
For every box of bananas purchased from Organics Unlimited, a family-owned grower organic bananas, PCC donates sixty cents to the GROW (Giving Resources and Opportunities to Workers) Fund, started by Organics Unlimited. The Fund finances, in part, the work of Project Amigo, a non-profit that provides educational and health services to impoverished children in Colima, Mexico.
Recyclable and compostable food wares
The Seattle Times — May 7, 2010
PCC and other food-related businesses have encountered obstacles in trying to comply with Seattle’s recycling and composting requirements for food service ware.
Scott Owen, PCC's nonfood category manager and special projects coordinator, discusses the difficulty of finding an alternative to polystyrene foam meat trays that are not made from genetically modified corn and meets the Cedar Grove composting standards. A plant-based, recyclable tray will be used by PCC for the short term with the hope that suitable compostable options will become available in the near future.