Recipe for Cooking with Toddlers
I love when people ask me for tips about cooking with their kids. Sometimes I feel really qualified to answer. Other times, not so much. But I got excited when someone on Twitter asked me for tips on how to make cooking with her 2 year old less frustrating…
Ingredients:
1 gallon Patience
1 pinch Expectations
Several squirts of [...]
A New Year’s Revolution
I don’t mean to sound subversive, but I think it would be great if we all started our own New Year’s revolution and resolved to eat more organic produce. If you’ve been thinking about including more organic foods in your diet there’s help from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and their list of the “Dirty [...]
Eat Local, Not Loco!
A STEER NAMED LEROY HIS BARRIER-BREAKING EFFORTS TO GAIN ACCESS TO LOCALLY GROWN FOOD –
You may have heard the term locavore, meaning someone who eats local.
But what does it really mean to eat local?
Where do you start?
Eating Local as a State of Mind
It seems to me that it’s more a state of mind than [...]
Adventure With Apples in the City
A Window into the World of a Restaurant Fruit Seller •
Not long ago I drove to San Francisco with 5 bushels of apples from our farm, stashed in the back of my car. I had emailed some restaurant chef friends of mine in the city to let them know the Arkansas Blacks from our [...]
Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch
It’s Nearly Halloween!
When fall weather comes, kids start thinking about Halloween — what kind of costume to wear, where to go trick-or-treating, where to find the biggest, scariest pumpkin. By mid October the pumpkin search is on. And farms all over the country open their gates to kids and their families looking for pumpkins, apples, [...]