Cooking Up a Story: Stories
Have you ever attempted to raise chickens yourself? Bread, beer, fruits and vegetables all taste noticeably better when fresh. Well eggs do too! For Patrick and Holly, they were already true believers having raised chickens before. This time they wanted to raise more chickens than ever before—not just for [...]
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Dutch Oven Gathering: Dog Gone Good!
Cooking Up a Story: Stories
Cookout at a Dutch Oven Gathering. It’s a D.O.G., and if you have never been to one before, you’re in for a treat.
During the Fall of 2005, my husband and I visited a nearby sporting goods store, looking for some camping gear. It was a beautiful day and my window was [...]
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Memories of a Lebanese Garden
Linda Sawaya, author of the cookbook, Alice’s Kitchen: My Grandmother Dalal and Mother Alice’s Traditional Lebanese Cooking, shares the stories behind the illustrations she did for a magazine publication that involved her own family stories, gardens, food, and love.
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Making Berry Delicious Pies
Cooking Up a Story: Stories
Those frozen pies that seem to fill the supermarket frozen display bins, where do they come from, and how are these frozen fruit pies made. We discovered one company, the Willamette Valley Fruit Company, in our own backyard that processes fresh picked berries, and within hours, the fresh berries are frozen, [...]
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Commercial Composting: Why One Restaurant Recycles
Cooking Up a Story: Stories
Saving the planet may well stem from the small act of many, than bigger actions undergone by the few. One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains her reasons for doing so.
I started composting much of my food scraps last [...]
Posted in Food Stories Also tagged city conservation, commercial composting, composting, landfills, portland or, recycling, restaurant kitchen, Sustainable Living 9 Comments
The Awesome Whisk
Cooking Up a Story: Stories
They are found in almost every kitchen, but surprisingly there’s only one U.S. manufacturer. Follow us inside the Best Manufacturers plant for a rare visit to see how a whisk is made.
A factory of whisks. Wire, wire everywhere. How do they get those wires to stay in place and not come [...]
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