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Meal Planning

Posted in Back to Basics, Blogs on July 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I think an impediment to the prevalence of whole, fresh food (and thus, local food) in our diets is the lack of home cooking. And one impediment to home cooking is reluctance and intimidation toward meal planning. This is an easier obstacle to tackle compared to lack of time or money. Though, as meal planning [...]

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Some Reading

Posted in Blogs, In the News, Media on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Here are some food-related articles I’ve recently read. Are there some good ones I’ve missed? It takes a community to sustain a small farm “I used to think there were four distinct pieces to a local food system: production, processing, distribution, and retail. Now I realize there is a fifth: community. Without an involved community [...]

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Slant and Sausage

Posted in Big Food, Blogs, In the News, Meat, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Do you subscribe to Meatingplace headlines and blog updates? I can’t remember how I came across the site, but I continue to read and get pissed; read, get pissed. It’s my education on inserting bias and “fast, flexible, fully automated sausage production.” The industry blogs are even more fun, where bloggers like Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton [...]

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An Excuse for Light Posting

Posted in Blogs, Farming/Ranching, Garden, Greenhorn on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check out what I’ve been up to at Guilford Gardens: work log onion harvest

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Some Reading

Posted in Blogs, In the News, Meat, Media on April 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Sustainable Agriculture = Community Development Excerpt: “As currently structured, the food system is a sieve through which a substantial portion of wealth in low-income communities leaks away — with little of value to show for it.” Red Meat and Mortality Excerpt: “Eating lots of red meat increases the chances of dying prematurely of cancer and [...]

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Marshmallows

Posted in Blogs, Experimenting, Sweets on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Just in time for the rain, sleet, and snow that we may be getting tomorrow: a recipe for homemade marshmallows! When I told my mom that Chelsey and I were going to make homemade marshmallows, she asked, “Tricia, do you know how cheap marshmallows are?” No I don’t, but that’s not the point. What is [...]

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Rendering Lard

Posted in Beer and Wine, Blogs, Co-op, Experimenting, Fat, Flops, Meat on December 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Lard. Lard. Lard. Lard. Lard. Maybe if I say it enough it won’t sound so lardy? I read Real Food by Nina Planck several months (maybe even a year) ago. It’s like In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, but more simplistic. Both have their merits, but I took away more from Real Food probably [...]

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