Good Food is Everybody's Business
OK, folks, I’ll make a confession. I am partial to food that looks like its origin. That is, carrots that look like carrots, potatoes that look like potatoes. So are you ready for a handy-dandy, “food printer” in your kitchen?
Kale – the “super vegetable!” Here is a great recipe for kale chips; don’t laugh until you’ve tried them!
After careful consideration, in order to insure that the company he, his family, and his long-time employees worked so hard to build would continue to grow and reflect his values, Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, chose to create an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
Hombres de maíz. Men of corn. More than just a description, it’s the basis of the Mayan belief system. Popol Vuh, the Mayan’s eight hundred year-old narrative of creation, teaches just that: humankind is created from corn.
Chocolate chip cookies! Hands down, Americans prefer chocolate chip cookies over any other kind of cookie. Traditionally made with butter, brown sugar, white sugar, all-purpose flour, and semi-sweet chocolate chips, these bits of warm comfort are off the table if you suffer from gluten intolerance or have chosen a diet free of animal products. Not so! Skydottir Epic Cookies to the rescue!
Amanda Irving and René Featherstone are an unlikely partnership and yet it takes both – the farmer and the baker – to turn an ancient grain like spelt into delicious bread. American consumers have strayed a long way from real food and real bread. René and Amanda are on the path that farmers and bakers have followed for millennia: growing good grain and making good bread. Long may that partnership last!
How local is local? Peter Platt thinks local within a global network. Challenged with running an ethnic restaurant that is closely tied to ingredients that can’t be purchased locally, Peter struggled to find the foods he needs and to source them in a sustainable manner.
As cities grew, more and more people left the farms, and the food had to be brought to them. In the century since Seattle’s Pike Place Market was opened, a lot has changed and we have become distanced from our food and the people who produce it. It is today’s farmers market that is reconnecting American consumers to the land and to their food.
