My challenge-to-self for 2012: Reduce my household food waste to less than 5%. I spent the week after Christmas clearing out closets, the pantry and the refrigerator — following my own advice. The biggest reveal was when I discovered that my largest kitchen appliance had turned into a scary hybrid compost bin/messy biological laboratory. Life [...]
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Budget Booster: Trim Your Food Waste
Posted January 12th, 2012 by Admin. Comment (0).
Your Favorite Holiday Food Tradition
Posted December 12th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
No other time of year is so richly steeped in tradition than the holiday season, and lucky for us, lots of those traditions involve cooking, eating and sharing great food. We’ve all got memorable dishes and must-make recipes connected to this time of year. Maybe it’s Uncle Charlie’s extra-strong eggnog or Grandma Ruth’s red cabbage [...]
Jeff Cox: The Smaller the Farm, the Better the Food
Posted December 5th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From Jeff Cox It’s vitally important to know your growers and suppliers. Here are several correlates if you want truly great-tasting, fresh food. Like all generalizations, there are exceptions, but for the most part these rules hold true: The Smaller the Farm, the Better the Food Chances are that at small family farms, more care will [...]
Navigating Holidays with Food Allergies
Posted November 19th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Do you or your kids suffer from a severe food allergy? Our social relationships so often revolve around sharing food that it can be extra difficult to figure out what’s safe to eat and what’s not during the holiday season. Holiday food is frequently prepared using one or more of the top eight allergens; milk, [...]
Good Food and Even Better Company
Posted November 16th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Stress levels run high during this time of year. From finding the perfect recipes and pairing the wines to tracking down the trivets and recreating a centerpiece from the page we tore out of that magazine, our Thanksgiving to-do list quickly becomes as long as a table runner. It’s at these times that we often [...]
Bellevue — Win Free Food For 6 Months
Posted October 29th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Prize Details • Enter to win six months of free groceries from Your Local Market (up to a 00 retail value) on Facebook. Your Local Market is located in downtown Bellevue, Washington and it is the city’s newest grocery store, bringing the best of local, organic and natural products alongside the mainstream brands you trust. [...]
Food Day Washington State — Coming Monday October 24, 2011
Posted October 23rd, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From DEBS Food Day Washington State Food Day Calendar is Here! “Eat Local Now!” dinner and other fun stuff you should do for Food Day Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push [...]
Gene Logsdon: Pope Mary and the New Wave of Food Hubs
Posted October 18th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON When I wrote “Pope Mary and the Church of Almighty Good Food,” I thought I was proposing a rather preposterous idea. In my fictional story, the congregation of a church that was closed much against its will decided to turn their property into a sort of food center to grow and process [...]
Food News and Recipe Links — No Fluff
Posted October 17th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From DAVE SMITH Editor/Publisher God’s Country — Farming for spiritual reasons [VIDEO]: There are those who farm for food, those who farm for money, those who farm because it’s what they have always done. And then there are the Stollers. This family in central Ohio farms for spiritual reasons. They raise organic dairy cows and [...]
Fig Food Co.
Posted October 8th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
We love our producers, suppliers and vendors and we think most of them have some pretty interesting stories behind their products too. We’ll be sharing some of our favorites here in an ongoing series. Read on for a chance to win a gift card. Fig Food makes delicious soup. If you’ve tasted it, you may [...]