Posts Tagged ‘food’

Mojo Criollo Nuevo Marinade and Brine

This is an adaptation of a Caribbean-style brine or marinade for pork. The lime juice subs for the traditional sour oranges which can be difficult to find. I’ve reduced the salt as low as I can and still have a “brine.” The dark beer (I used a mocha stout.) adds a hint of sweetness and [...]

Green Green Beans (video)

Follow along as we travel from the field to the factory to learn how some of the best and freshest green beans get picked, processed, and canned all within a few short hours of time. For those of you who have been following, I like to see how things are made, how they work. Take [...]

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture, part 2 (video)

Fred Kirschenmann, a leader in the sustainable food movement, completes his reflections upon the future of agriculture.

Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture-Part 1

Cooking Up a Story: Food News Fred Kirschenmann steadfastly warns us, conventional agriculture, and its heavy dependence upon fossil fuels, and irrigated water, simply will not continue to offer a viable means for feeding the world. We have been drawing upon nature’s reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those [...]

Paul Roberts: The End of Food, part 2 (video)

Part 2. Journalist and author, Paul Roberts continues his argument that developing an alternative food system will not be quick, nor will it be easy to accomplish. It will require substantial support from the government in order to develop and take hold, and require a systematic approach to creating holistic solutions. Roberts points out, risk [...]

Food Matters with Mark Bittman, part 1 (video)

Mark Bittman, author of How To Cook Everything discusses the central message of his latest book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating. Bittman touts the benefits of home cooking, and offers a optimistic note to those who may view the culinary arts as beyond their native abilities. In Bittman’s view, most of us have [...]

Waste: Why Is So Much Food Wasted, part 2 (video)

Should food be treated as a precious commodity, or simply a commodity when expedient to just throw out? Jonathan Bloom, journalist, and author of Wasted Food Blog, believes food is too valuable to waste. In this segment, Bloom offers some suggestions for supermarkets on ways they can reduce the tremendous amount of food that gets [...]

A City Looks Toward Defining Its Future

Damascus, Oregon (population: 10,000) ponders how to integrate existing urban agriculture into its future urban fabric. Damascus, Oregon is located about 20 miles southeast of Portland, incorporating the surrounding communities of Damascus and Carver to become a city in 2004. It occupies roughly 10,000 acres (16 miles); now designated inside the Portland Metropolitan urban growth [...]