FRIED COFFEE

The last decade has seen beans elevated from a side dish on a salad bar,  to star status in the the trendiest of boutique eateries.  Heirloom varieties are being sought out and featured on menus everywhere. Howevuh,  seeins’ how I’m from New Hampsha,  I’d likely be rode out of town on a rail after being [...]

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It’s the cold nights and warming days that get the sap running in Maple Syrup season.  That’d be now.  We’ll be working on resolving the great worries of the world down the road at Marks sugar house while the sap reduces. I thought to make a bit of syrup on my own and set off [...]

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Over the last four years photographer Paul Mobley traveled the United States and met more than 300 farmers.  You can see a few of them here.  Paging through the book,  American Farmer,  one feels the warm, gritty soil and the sun, hard on your neck. The book shows us the heart of the U. S. [...]

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The Slow Food movement begun by Carlo Petrini is experiencing an acceleration of distaste from critics who feel  Slow Food America has become elitist in pursuing esoteric and expensive foods.  An article in the East bay Express by Alastair Bland explores the issues at “Changemakers Day”(sic),  a panel discussion segment of Slow Food Nation. The [...]

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Goodby Silverstein & Partners created an advertising campaign around these two words in 1993 for the California Milk Processor Board. Peta has added a new dimension to the phrase and solved the world economic crunch with one letter to Ben and Jerry in which they propose we use human breast milk for ice cream production. [...]

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As the year winds down and the weather turns cooler I always seem to experience a sort of primordial urge to concentrate my culinary talents on the fruits we call squash.  Wikipedia suggests the cultivation of it as far back as 8000 to 10,000 years ago.  It figures prominently in the art and pottery of [...]

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For most of the kitchen cowboys I know, coffee is all about C8H10N4O2, otherwise known as caffeine. It’s used chiefly to invigorate oneself in preparation for the production of service. Put it in a glass – get it cooled down and into the system At home I buy inexpensive ground coffee. I dress it up [...]

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It’s time to sustain the Farmers who have  experienced crippling losses due to the unprecedented flooding in Iowa, Wisconsin and seven other states who are faced with foreclosure and income loss affecting their ability to cover basic needs including family expenses and food. FarmAid is asking for your donations which are then directed to the [...]

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Lunch in the cafeteria used to be much like a visit to a fast food diner with seating and ambience designed to move you along after 20 minutes. A visit to a corporate dining facility  will separate you from that perception however. The decorating styles are becoming more comfortable and showy tending to emulate casual [...]

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The FDA was cited on the news last night as calling for bar codes on fruits and vegetables to identify growers and make it easier to track contaminated foods back to their source. The farm industry counters that this would add greater expense for them. Many fruits and vegetables already have small stickers on them [...]

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