Posts Tagged ‘cooking’

Slow Food USA Invites You to Take the $5 Challenge

Many of us may have succumbed over the years to fast food – it’s cheap and it’s, well, fast! But there are alternatives…

Foraging in the Wild For Food (video)

I just had the pleasure of spending a couple days in San Francisco. I went on a walk through one particular neighborhood and could have had lunch: fields of wild fennel, mustard greens, dandelion, nettles and a whole lot more spilled out onto the path. There is a lot of wild and delicious food sprouting [...]

Take a Break with Eat Retreat

January 24, 2011 What’s not to like about this retreat? Nestled in the hills of picturesque Sonoma County is a ranch home that will sleep (and feed) up to 40 people as they hunker down and exchange ideas, conversations, discoveries on the subject of food. “Eat Retreat is a workshop for leaders in the food [...]

Making Summer Squash Stuffed with Rice (video)

Linda Sawaya demonstrates a recipe from her cookbook, Alice’s Kitchen to make her summer squash recipe. Check out how Linda cores the squash to stuff the rice inside it! Recipe From This Show: Summer Squash Stuffed with Rice Watch the related video story: Cooking With Love: Alice’s Kitchen Fresh, home cooked meals prepared with love; [...]

A Year of Inconvenience

April 27, 2010 Pam Mehnert, general manager of Outpost Natural Foods in the Milwaukee, WI, area, had an ‘Aha!’ moment and decided to challenge herself: stay out of the middle aisles of the grocery market, keep away from processed foods and over-packaged goods, and make from scratch all her meals and snacks. Her initial blog [...]