It’s been a great week for news about local and sustainable food. Hooray for summer! It’s farmers market week. Really, every week is farmers market week around here, April to November (give or take), but markets get a national nod this week. Rah! (K-State news) Blue-ribbon recipes. Try the prize-winning baking from the Douglas County [...]
Entries from August 7th, 2008
Roundup: Local food at market, at fair, at school
August 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Roundup, local food, recipes
Yes, let’s eat in, but there’s a better way
August 6th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Eating out, Food in the news, Food preparation
Good news! More people are eating home-cooked meals. Bad news! It isn’t what I’d call cooking. Good news! It’s a start, and it could maybe get people thinking about real cooking again. At least I hope so. The food-spending update Several reports from the last few weeks suggest more people are eating at home, largely [...]
What is your most-stained cookbook?
August 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Books
What fun! When I read Jill Santopietro’s “The Cookbook Chronicles” in the NYT blog The Moment, I knew I had to check my books. My top three: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Joy of Cooking (although mine’s from 1975, so it doesn’t quite make the cut) Recipes Worth Sharing, now out of print. It’s [...]
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Hot-hot-hot! Salsas and temps sizzle at market
August 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Farmers markets, Food preparation, local food
If it’s early August, its salsa time in Kansas, and the Lawrence Farmers Market put salsa and its makers on display Saturday. Ambitious market coordinator Mercedes Taylor-Puckett organized not only salsa-making presentations by three Lawrence chefs, but also a competition open to market patrons. And she did it on what turned out to be the [...]
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Corn, tomatoes highlight midsummer meal
August 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Farmers markets, local food
Some highlights of last night’s dinner with friends. Sweet corn at its fresh and local peak. Three kinds of pasture-raised meat (beef, goat, lamb) cooked over a fire fueled with wood from the same property. Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chunks. Fruit salad made entirely of fruit from friends’ farm. The fruits included plums, [...]
Papalo at home among beans and hot peppers
August 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Food preparation, Food selection
Remember the papalo? Today I ran into the farmer who grew mine, which reminded me I needed to update you. I guess we Anglos don’t immediately take to the stuff, as evidenced by one writer’s referring to it as the wet dog herb and another saying it smells like gasoline. I can’t say that either [...]
