From the monthly archives: July 2008
If buying local is the way to lower your carbon footprint and enjoy foods at their peak, then you likely can’t get any more local than chef and artist Jim Denevan’s “farm-to-table” dinners. You see, for Denevan’s events, the table is usually just a few feet from the very crops that are being [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever been challenged by someone about why to buy organic produce? If you’re like me, you can rattle off some good solid answers pretty quickly, but when they demand scientific reasoning you might not be able to cite research studies so readily.
I’m enjoying a long-overdue family vacation in northern Minnesota, home to real wild rice. Pssst…here’s a secret: most “wild rice” you find in your local grocery store is not, in fact, wild rice. Taste the real stuff, and you’ll know that a certain orange-bagged “rice” is nothing like the nutty goodness of wild rice. [...]
Continue Reading →Ernest Hemingway in “A Moveable Feast“ wrote:
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and [...]
Continue Reading →Home canning is all the rage. Eating locally is in, and doing so year-round pretty much requires some kind of food preservation. No one’s freezer space is unlimited, and home canning is a [...]
Continue Reading →We went on a field trip yesterday, us and another family. The trek took us pretty far out of our every day and all the way up to a sheep farm north of our city. The farm was celebrating the launch of its cheese production with a tasting and food and wine.
The [...]
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Lovin’ Fresh is a series of recipes designed to showcase produce gathered from local farms or grown in my own garden.
Hurry! It’s almost over! Like any good thing, the blueberry season is all too short, and the smart cook embraces it for all its worth while it’s here. The same could [...]
Continue Reading →It’s that time of year. My mouth is watering and a body is craving antioxidants. And there’s no better time than right now to grab, buy or even pick your own summer jewels. I’m of course talking about berries – a myriad of types and varieties can be found in virtually every area of the [...]
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