Cooking Up a Story (CUpS) is an online television show and blog about people, food, and sustainable living. The Show offers a variety of original short-form programming.
CUpS: Stories delivers documentary shorts filmed on-location, whose stories are told in the voice of the subject to reveal the character and passion of those committed to sustainable food and agriculture. CUpS: Food News provides in-depth interviews with experts on the science, politics, and culture of food that delves below the surface of important issues that impact our food system, and the world.
The essence of CUpS is about people; farmers and artisan food producers, and others, whose lives center around the broad themes of sustainable food and agriculture— from the farm to its ultimate destination—the table.
Of course, you will find more than just stories throughout the site, in addition to our other shows, you will also find fine work by outside contributors in both print and multimedia formats exploring the many aspects of food sustainability as CUpS marches into 2010, and our 4th year of life!
More about CUpS:
The world is in a period of profound transformation; the transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy drawn from renewable energy resources. We must develop new strategies for ways of dealing with and minimizing the effects of climate change, water scarcity, and a host of other environmental, social, and economic concerns that directly interrelate with our food system.
Cooking up a Story explores these larger questions and concerns, as we continue to focus on the people whose living examples provide inspiration, education, and possible models forward toward helping us develop a more sustainable future.
Additional information about other CUpS shows:
CUpS: Cooking Fresh- a cooking show demonstrating fresh, seasonal, and local ingredients by a diverse group of food enthusiasts, and professional chefs.
CUpS: Recipes- Family favorites from the people profiled on CUpS
Conversation Starters- shorter videos that highlight people and ideas around the themes of our show.
CUpS Contributors- an eclectic and enlightened group of food experts and enthusiasts whose contributions greatly expand the value of information and content on our site.
As you navigate through the site, we welcome hearing your feedback, and story suggestions for future shows: feedback (at) cookingupastory.com.
Thanks for your interest, and your support!
And, Happy Holidays!
Rebecca and Fred
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Hi Rebecca and Fred, great job with your site and philosophy. I found your site through Food News Journal today. They grab all the top food headlines and ‘the art of food photography’ was one!
Full disclosure – I teach wok cooking in S.Florida and market a cast iron wok Kit with instructional DVDs and audio cookalongs. My mission reflects much of the same goals as yours. Getting people to cook with fresh ingredients from local farmer’s markets but more importantly cooking and eating together with family and friends. I know those are my fondest childhood memories.
I’ve subscribed to your feed and Twitter and telling folks to do same. Keep up the good work.
Hi Rebecca and Fred,
Great site and great resource!
Because of the quality and relevance of you videos I will be using them on my site, http://escoffier.com.
Were going to be focusing on how and why restaurants and food service operations should adapt the principals of sustainability and ecology through the Green Restaurant movement. I think you videos give a texture and a feel to the topic that others lack.
Great work and best of luck with your site.
Dear Rebecca and Fred,
I wanted to compliment you on your website and the very insightful links you have here. As well, I’d like to introduce myself, I am an Editorial Researcher for The Mark News (www.themarknews.com) and we’ve just published a number of food related articles, notably “A Return to Real Food” By Alexandra Morton found here : http://www.themarknews.com/articles/578-a-return-to-real-food , that I thought you’d be interested in. We’d be happy to have you publish it on your website, just please link back to us!
Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Julie