Posts Tagged ‘food traditions’

Lefse Lessons with Grandma

November 16, 2010 The upcoming holidays, for many, is a time of preparing special, time-honored recipes. Many are family traditions to be passed down from generation to generation. This is one of those dishes that the Sylvester family, of Minnesota, does year after year: making lefse. What is a lefse? Simply put, it’s a “traditional [...]

Christmas Date Loaf: Family Fruitcake Treasure

This flour-less fruit cake is an old time family favorite. Make a lot, it goes fast!

Kitchen Literacy 3

In part 3 of Kitchen Literacy, Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and all the interrelated social, health, and environmental consequences that occur. Agricultural pollution is the single largest non-point source of water pollution (effecting rivers, streams, and wetland areas) in the United States. In her [...]