As proud alums of Cornell University, Arico Co-Founders Hermanto Hidajat and Angela Ichwan were pleased to be part of Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration '08, held April 10-11 on the university campus in gorgeous Ithaca, NY. The annual event brings together successful alumni with current business students for a two-day series of networking events.

Arico CEO Angela Ichwan was named the recipient of the Portland Business Journal’s coveted Orchid Award, the publication’s annual recognition of 25 women from the Portland business community who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and accomplishment.

Ichwan was honored for her achievements during a ceremony at The Women in Business Party and Expo, held last night at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Ichwan is profiled in today’s Portland Business Journal’s “Women in Business” issue.

April 23, 2008 Last week’s LA Celebrity Golf Challenge raised more than $360,000 to support Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism advocacy organization. The star-studded event was held April 14th at the beautiful Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA. Arico’s delicious snacks were on hand to provide gluten-free replenishment.

In response to a study linking artificial food additives to hyperactivity in children, U.K. food regulators have called on manufacturers to voluntarily remove six common artificial colorings from their food products by the end of 2009.

This decision by the Britain’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) will affect “hundreds of products” sold throughout the U.K., according to an article in the British newspaper, The Independent.

New research shows that rheumatoid arthritis patients who follow a gluten-free, vegan diet could have a reduced risk of heart attack or stroke.

According to an article published on WebMD, Swedish researchers studied the effects of the diet on a small group of rheumatoid arthritis patients and noted improvement in several markers for heart disease.

You will remember that leaping stream
where sweet aromas rose and trembled,
and sometimes a bird, wearing water
and slowness, its winter feathers.

You will remember those gifts from the earth:
indelible scents, gold clay,
weeds in the thicket and crazy roots,
magical thorns like swords.

You'll remember the bouquet you picked,
shadows and silent water,
bouquet like a foam-covered stone.

That time was like never, and like always.
So we go there, where nothing is waiting;
we find everything waiting there.

A giant cassava root, weighing in at over 65 lbs, was recently discovered on a farm in the Hainan province of China.

The so-called “king of cassava” has attracted curious onlookers to the farm of Fu Chunmei, who told China Daily that she planted the cassava in her sugar cane field about a year ago.

The massive cassava root was reportedly 20 inches long and close to a foot wide. To put that in perspective, the average cassava root grows to about 6 to 12 inches in length and from 2 to 3 inches in diameter.

For the uninitiated, here some facts about our beloved casava:

Choosing Arico Cassava Chips instead of higher fat potato chips will bring you one step closer to “enjoying greater energy and vitality,” according to the Body Ecology Diet’s “Eat This Instead of That” guide to making healthier food choices.

Today is World Autism Awareness Day.

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 2007, the aim of the resolution is to bring the world’s attention to autism, a growing global health concern.

According to Autism Speaks, an autism advocacy organization:

* Autism affects as many as 1 in 150 children and 1 in 94 boys
* Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disability in the world