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Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts! — James Beard

Posted on November 2nd, 2011

The November Locavore

 

My mom, daughter and me on Thanksgiving day.

What’s in the issue?

Let’s Cook! *My December Holiday Cooking Class *Thanksgiving Recipes, Tips and Free Meals

Local and Regional Food News *Food to Compost, a Green Harvest Festival *”It Takes a Region” Conference *Farm to School for Tots *Berkshire Grown Holiday Farmers Markets [...]

Posted on July 31st, 2011

The August Locavore, ’11

What’s up in August?

Weekend Locavore Way Workshop — August 26-28. I’m teaching a Kripalu Retreat weekend workshop in Lenox Massachusetts in the Berkshires. Cooking lessons, farm visit, tastings and more. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or call Kripalu at 1-800-741-7353

Talk and Book Signing — August 31, 7 [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2011

Rawson Brook Farm’s Chocolate Chevre Truffles

Below the Recipe

This Weekend Join me! Spring Tonic at the Lenox Library Project Native Film Festival in Great Barrington

More Recipes with Goat Cheese

Feeding the World without Destroying it

Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm with her baby goats. (Photo from Berkshire Food Journal)

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Posted on March 8th, 2011

CSAs & Running-on-Empty White Bean Soup with Local Wheatberries

What’s Below

What is a CSA? How to find one near you New Berkshire CSA A little background Farm Film Festival! The Recipe: Delicious Running-on-Empty Tuscan White Bean Soup

Starting to see the earth below all this snow?  Seed time! (Picture from Berkshire Food Journal)

In March and April, [...]

Posted on March 1st, 2011

Warm Pudding

Local Food News Below

It’s Maple Month! Recipes Using Maple Syrup An Oral History of Girlhood and a New England Farm More about Maple Syrup

My niece Sadie, third generation pudding lover, who knows to keep blowing and eat it warm!  (See her savor it below.) [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2011

Moscow Borscht

Local Food News Below

Good Meat, Comprehensive New Book on Sustainable Meat Learning About & Buying Sustainably Raised Local Meat Berkshire Maple Dinner on March 14th White House Garden is Swell, but Obamas need to do more.

The Recipe

You won’t believe the depth and character of this meat borscht, a [...]

Posted on February 15th, 2011

Best Baby Taters

Food News Below More about Potatoes Ted Dobson of Equinox Farm Talks about Farming Berkshire Kripalu Community Talk and Book Signing “Changing the Way We Eat”big TED event now online American Farmland Trust’s Planning Agriculture Guide

The recipe

Cute is not my thing. I ripped the bows off [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2011

Connie’s Apple Coffee Cake

Good Food News

Local Authors Celebrate I Must Have Bobo! with Connie’s Apple Coffee Cake National Kudos to Local Artisanal Baker USDA Launches New Biobased Product Label (See below for these stories)

(Going, going, almost gone. One classic coffee cake, nutty and moist with apples.) [...]

Posted on January 24th, 2011

Pickled Onions

Valentine’s Day Locavore Cooking Class New Facebook Farmers Market Grassfed Beef Conference This Week (See below for details)

Imagine life without onions, so essential to the Indian diet that there were riots when their price spiked. Here they’re a winter staple for their price, flavor and longevity.

Pretty in [...]

Posted on January 19th, 2011

Eggs on Winter Vegetable Hash with Ancho Chili Ketchup

This local food combo was born of culinary desperation and cabin fever. After two days trapped in the house by ice and snow, I scavenged for supplies.

The results? A hash of winter roots topped with poached eggs that’s great on its own. A drizzle of ancho chili ketchup lends treble to the earthy [...]