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# Potluck: Happy Fourth of July 2011
- URL: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/07/potluck-happy-fourth-of-july-2011/
- Published: 2011-07-04T01:59:01.000Z
- Updated: 2011-07-04T01:59:01.000Z
- Author: Mary Rothschild
- Tags: food safety leaders, For Foodies, potluck, recipe, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-25 09:53

It’s become a tradition at **Food Safety News** to take a break on major holidays by hosting a virtual potluck or picnic, held entirely online for our far-flung staff.

![julyfourth-featured.jpg](http://www.foodsafetynews.com/julyfourth-featured.jpg)

So we’re celebrating Independence Day 2011 by once again sharing our dishes – [Mary’s farmers’ market veg dip](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/potluck-basil-cilantro-veg-dip/), [Cookson’s garden-fresh potato salad](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/potluck-garden-fresh-potato-salad/), [Suzanne’s Aunt Sandy’s spinach and strawberry salad](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/potluck-spinach-and-strawberry-salad/), [Helena’s apricot-rosemary halibut](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/helenas-fourth-of-july-apricot-rosemary-halibut/), [Andy’s Everyman’s Gumbo](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/potluck-everymans-gumbo/), [Dan’s Fried Ice Cream Cake Sticks](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/blue-bunnyduffs-fried-ice-cream-and-cake-sticks/) and [Gretchen’s coconut berry lime cake](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/potluck-coconut-berry-lime-cake/).

We’re often asked if writing about foodborne illness makes us reluctant eaters. Far from it. We love good food and all the healthy choices available. To us, food freedom means the right to spend our grocery dollars with growers and producers who see safe food-handling practices not as an inconvenience or cost, but as a responsibility to protect their customers and the public health, and therefore an essential part of doing business. Independence Day is a good day to think about freedom from fear.

Have a food-safe Fourth of July.

The **Food Safety News** team