Tag: slow food
group name: kitchentricks
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March 23, 2007 08:06 PM EDT --
On Wednesday Farmgirl Susan, kitchenMage (both fellow Gather Food Correspondents), and I launched A Year in Bread. A Year is a blog dedicated to baking bread (and rolls and buns and even pizza). . . .
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September 07, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
Roots of Change , in conjunction with Slow Food USA and many other like-minded organizations, has drafted a declaration on US food policy. I strongly encourage you all to read the declaration . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
Cooking Class
Real Cooking Made Simple
By Chef Kurt Michael Friese
The Gentle Art of Sauté
A professional kitchen bears very little resemblance to a home kitchen, despite recent attempts by interior . . .
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January 09, 2007 07:36 PM EST --
Cooking Class
Real Cooking Made Simple
By Chef Kurt Michael Friese
Potatoes
On a recent trip out of state, a student I met asked me “Iowa, huh? Isn’t that where they grow potatoes?” . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:50 PM EDT --
This time of year, in small family farms all over Iowa, the new lambs are beginning to arrive. It’s a stressful time for farmers – it keeps them up until all hours of the night at a . . .
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June 20, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
Is there anyone, save Professor Hathaway from the 80s cult film Real Genius, who doesn’t love popcorn?
Despite a quick online search turning up such non-sequiturs as Jiffy Pop being listed in . . .
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October 01, 2008 08:01 PM EDT --
I confess to trickery to get you to read this recipe. The truth is no one can ever have too many fresh tomatoes. Just ask those who attend the Tomatina in the Plaza Del Pueblo in the small . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
It's About the Food
By Chef Kurt Michael Friese
Chestnuts
Too few people would even recognize the smell of roasting chestnuts. There are precious few places left in the America where this savory . . .
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September 20, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
Cooking Class
Real Cooking Made Simple
Begin Preparing Now for Happy Thanksgiving
Part 1 in a 2 Part Series
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It represents all that I cherish: Family and friends . . .
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January 09, 2007 07:48 PM EST --
Cooking Class
Real Cooking Made Simple
By Chef Kurt Michael Friese
Braising Hearty Greens
As I write, the wind chill factor is –18f. My neighbor’s dried-up Christmas tree, which the . . .
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September 24, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
September in Iowa always brings the same delicious dilemma -- what to do with all that basil.
Few herbs are as surrounded by mythology and folklore as basil. Its origins are debated, but most seem . . .
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October 11, 2007 12:11 PM EDT --
I invite you all to check out my latest published work, an assignment from Grist.org on what it's like to be a "sustainable" chef in Big Ag country:
Fifteen years ago, I left a great . . .
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December 05, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
Seems as though the rules for cooking with fats and oils change every time you pick up a newspaper. One oil is bad for you, then it’s good for you, then it’s only good if it’s . . .
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September 22, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
Cooking Class
Real Cooking Made Simple
By Chef Kurt Michael Friese
New Traditions: How to Deep-Fry a Turkey
That pale, tasteless, hormone-laden excuse for a bird in your grocer's freezer is no turkey. . . .
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May 03, 2007 01:53 PM EDT --
One of the true fathers of western cuisine, Auguste Escoffier, said “Of all the products put to use by the art of cookery, not one is so fruitful of variety, so universally liked, and so complete . . .
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August 19, 2007 03:32 PM EDT --
Here it is again, that situation we thought (back in February) would not happen again this year, but we did it again anyway, didn’t we? You and I promised ourselves that we’d be more . . .
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September 03, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
Click here if you missed part 1
Now it’s 2 weeks on and the tomatoes still keep coming. Last time we talked about having friends over and making a party of it. Everyone brought their bounty . . .
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September 18, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
There are certain foods that I believe are unpopular with children and other finicky eaters simply because of their names. One such is the unfortunately named squash; it seems to make people think . . .
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July 13, 2008 02:25 PM EDT --
Too many people in this country have been sold a bill of goods. They've been tricked, flim-flammed, conned, and hustled. They've been bamboozled into believing that food comes wrapped in plastic . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
One of the best treatments of the subject I have seen to date, this video explains what Slow Food is truly all about - not snobbery or pretention, but rather the soul-nourishing goodness of flavor and . . .
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