Tag: sustainable
group name: kitchentricks
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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April 03, 2009 08:58 AM EDT --
Just because April Fool’s Day just went by doesn’t mean you have to be tricked into thinking that everything you hear about wine is true. Fear not, one fool is ready to debunk some of the most . . .
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December 19, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
For some folks, Christmas is about peace and good tidings. For others it is a joyous celebration of the birth of the savior. For many it is just about the presents. In my family it was, and still is, . . .
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January 21, 2008 12:28 PM EST --
You have read, in this space among many others, of the sinister nature of genetic modification and the patenting of seeds. I have ranted endlessly about the dangers of the food system being in the hands . . .
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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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April 19, 2008 09:29 PM EDT --
As Earth Day approaches this year, it seems that people are thinking more about food's price than its ecological footprint. A simple trip to the grocery store tells the same story we've been hearing . . .
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January 11, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
The Cook's Garden
By Chef Kurt Michael Friese
Roots
HD Thoreau, in his seminal book Walden (1854), wrote that the pond was often given to early thaws because of the ice cutters. These . . .
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