Explore by Tags
Entries tagged with 'sustainability'
Page 1 of 4
What Are Your Favorite Sustainable Food Stories in America?
We want to introduce you to Daniel Klein, creator of the web video series The Perennial Plate. After filming a year's worth of videos in Minnesota—as diverse as squirrel hunting, community gardens and roadkill—the chef-documentarian is taking the show across the country: from Minnesota to Louisiana to Portland to Florida and back again. Klein will be airing his cross-country episodes, but before he gets going, he needs your help with story ideas. We're talking cool farmers, crazy CSAs, and real people doing good, honest things with food in your area.How to Start Your Own Compost
Summer is the perfect time to start a new garden, or make your current garden even more awesome. No matter what your level of gardening expertise, you can start your own compost to enrich your soil and help your plants grow to their greatest potential. Composting is the process of combining kitchen scraps, dry material from your yard, and other organic matter (including soil) into a big pile—and then letting it sit, stirring occasionally. As well as helping your plants flourish, it's a great way to reduce your kitchen waste and use up all those weeds and other garden materials.Truck Farm Announces Winners of the Wicked Delicate Garden Contest
You may remember Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis from the Meet & Eat we posted a few weeks ago. At the time, they were gathering entries to their Wicked Delicate Garden Contest, a chance for young people across the country to show off ways to make gardens in unexpected places. The entries were judged by Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Marion Nestle for "creativity and resourcefulness," and last week the winners were announced!Meet & Eat: Eliza Fournier, Green Youth Farm in Chicago
Chicago Botanical Garden's Green Youth Farm is a novel program takes more than 60 high school students and teaches them the skills of operating and growing crops on a small farm. They learn team-building skills, participate in community service projects, and get to eat lots of tasty, tasty fresh produce. I spoke with Eliza Fournier, the manager of community gardening, to get a better sense of why and how this organization makes such a big impact on its community.Meet & Eat: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis of Truck Farm, a Farm on a Truck
Longtime friends and documentary filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis broke onto the food scene with their thought-provoking documentary, King Corn. Still hopeful to arouse new interest in agriculture, the two are now attempting to prove that farming can happen in even the most urban of areas. Despite many skeptical looks, they are successfully growing vegetables in the bed of a pickup truck! I chatted with Curt and Ian about their current projects and their hope for the future of urban agriculture.Meet a Forager: Avia Hawksworth, Farmstead Restaurant in Napa Valley
This week we bring you something a little bit different from our typical Meet Your Farmers profiles. Avia Hawksworth isn't a farmer. She's the forager for the newly-opened Farmstead Restaurant in St. Helena, California. That means she sources local ingredients for the always-rotating menu and educates diners on where they're food is coming. Chez Panisse was first to start a "forager" position back in the 1970s.The Butcher's Cuts: Grind, the Most Sustainable Chop at the Shop
As a newbie apprentice at Fleisher's Meats, I spend plenty of time at the shop cutting down meat for the chop bin. Whenever a rack of lamb is frenched, the meat in between each and every rib must be scraped or pulled off the bone. If a cut of pork shoulder or belly is being rolled and tied into a roast, we save the meat that's trimmed prior to tying the roast. In short, everything that's not displayed in the case must be turned to grind or used in stock in order for the shop to maintain its input/output calculus.Meet & Eat: Alice Waters
In preparation for a week's worth of wonderful recipes from Alice Waters' wonderful new book of cooking basics, In the Green Kitchen we sat down with her to chat about the Slow Food event that inspired the book, some of her favorite recipes that made it in there (pickles, roast chicken, poached eggs) and tips for greening your own kitchen.Poll: Are You Joining a CSA This Year?
Many CSAs (an acronym for Community Supported Agriculture) offer fruit and vegetable shares that start in May and June, and last through the fall. CSA members buy a "share" in a farm, which means they not only get a box of fresh produce, but also get to invest in the local farm. Throughout the growing season, members pick up their food (which has also branched out into eggs, meat, cheese, flowers, and more). Have you already joined a CSA or plan to? And if so, let us know where and what farm. Take the poll! »Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
Today's Specials
8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
Continue reading »
BraveTart: Make Your Own Butterfingers »
Sandwiched: Crisp Grilled Cheese »
Recently in Talk
Recently in SE Blogs
Most Emailed
The Secret Ingredient (Parsley): As-Good-As-Cole-Slaw Cabbage and Parsley Salad
Serious Reads: An Extravagant Hunger, by Anne Zimmerman
Sunday Supper: Chicken with Apples, Thyme and Shallots
Look Who's Talkin': Comments, Quips, and Tips We Have Known and Loved
This Week's Tasty 10: The Most Popular Posts from the SE Oven
