Beth Bader is co-author of the book, The Cleaner Plate Club. She is a passionate "Local Food" advocate and an author for the Eat Local Challenge. She loves creating healthy, family-friendly, seasonal foods, family dinners, cooking for friends, and cooking with her child. You can her at The Expatriate's Kitchen.
Giving Mother Earth a Gift This Holiday Season by Cooking Green. Can a winter’s holiday feast be local and sustainable? It doesn’t seem such an easy task, even for a locavore like myself as I contemplate turnips, a few remaining pumpkins and sweet potatoes. Even so, with some resourcefulness and help from regional chefs of …
Another chef on my personal short list for the White House (Kitchen) Cabinet would be Bryant Terry. He cooks some amazing food as you can tell from his “Eco-Soul Kitchen” posts at TheRoot.com and the pages of his cookbooks, Grub and the forthcoming Vegan Soul Kitchen, but it is Terry’s work in the realm of …
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On my short list for job candidates who should be Obama’s White House Chef: Kurt Micheal Friese. As our President-Elect takes office and struggles to wrest the Farm Bill from the deathgrip of one of our nation’s largest lobbyist groups, I think Chef Friese would be ideal to serve up some good advice along with …
The phone rang on Friday. It was our CSA farmer, “Farmer Dan.” We then went through the list of everything he had from the greenhouse and field and how much I needed. Arrangements were made for a special drop at one of the restaurants he sells to. Ten minutes later, part of my menu for …
Forget President-Elect Obama’s cabinet, what’s on his table? There’s lots of talk about Obama’s pick for White House Chef. Here’s an overview of who’s on the short list, plus who should be on the list. Think you’re the one? Find out how to let us know. So, who’s might be cooking? You can scratch Rick …
As the world celebrates a historic Presidential election in the U.S., as democrats take more seats in Congress, and, as many of us nurse our post-victory party hangovers, even chickens have a reason to celebrate. Or, at least the chickens in California. You see, Prop 2 passed in our nation’s largest agricultural state. This law …
© Bernd Juergens | Dreamstime.com Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beet Leery of the leek? Afraid of asparagus? Broccoli your personal Boggart? It seems witches are not the only green thing that scares us. You are not alone. According to a 2007 study published in the American Journal of Medicine, …
The closest I have come to my own Iron Chef experience would be my ongoing Battle of Orange Food. This is a strange phenomenon at our house in which, one day, our child who LOVED everything orange in baby foods decided she no longer liked orange vegetables. For no reason. The challenge was on. I …
Sushi. It’s the last topic you’d expect to see on a sustainable food site. But Monterrey Bay Aquarium is inviting you to go out and eat sushi between October 22 and 28 as part of a nationwide sustainable seafood awareness campaign. If you join the National Sushi Party, be sure to take along the new …
Starting Monday night, Fine Living Network will be showing Iron Chef “Attack of the Vegetables” week. All vegetable. All week. It’s even the Japanese Iron Chef version. I’m guilty of liking Iron Chef — even the American version. It’s the only TV I watch once in a while. My favorite episodes are always the ones …
Dear Farmer-in-Chief Michael Pollan writes a letter to the future president to explain why the health care crisis, energy independence, and climate change cannot be solved without addressing our Some compelling facts from the essay include; “After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy — 19 percent …
Food Crisis Quote of the Week “The essential purpose of food, which is to nourish people, has been subordinated to the economic aims of a handful of multinational corporations that monopolize all aspects of food production, from seeds to major distribution chains, and they have been the prime beneficiaries of the world crisis,” H. E. …
It’s late in the year; harvest season is upon us. If this year in local food has had a “theme” it would be the victory garden. Growing your own has a new appeal. If you haven’t started your garden yet, maybe it’s a bit late, but it’s not too early to think about sharing the …
