A Duck For Dinner: A Source-to-Table Fable

• From Capture to Cleanup, a Duck for Dinner •
Where I live in Northern California we have a rich supply of wild foods.
I’ve often thought to cook a meal from things that grow nearby:

watercress and crawfish from the creek
blackberries from the brambles
quail
wild radish and
mustard from the meadow

Add a few chanterelle mushrooms collected under our [...]

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 [...]

A Trip Home to My Family Farm

In 2004, after 20 years in the kitchen at Chez Panisse, I moved back to our family farm in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, where I’d spent all my summers growing up. I didn’t really understand the importance of those summers on the farm until I moved back.
Summers during my Youth
During the school year [...]