Reducing Kitchen Waste: A Habit That Nourishes You and the Planet By Ayleen Rivadeneira, Nutritionist Every year, millions of tons of food end up in the trash while millions of people struggle to eat well. Reducing kitchen waste is not just an environmental responsibility — it’s also an opportunity to improve your nutrition and save…
Hey there – Spring is here and your local Farmers Markets are buzzing with activity. This is the time of year when you can find the tender roots, shoots and sprouts of seasonal produce. You say you don’t know what to do with that asparagus and those fiddle head ferns? Ask the experts – the…
Support local cheese makers for National Cheese Month Many Americans have been brought up eating foods out of season throughout the year. While the concept of seasonality is familiar to many, the idea of only having access to certain foods at specific times of the year might seem outlandish – if not offensive – to…
With Thanksgiving fast upon us, the subject of poultry—specifically turkey—has been top of mind for many. Serious slow food proponents know that the best option for our health, the planet, great flavor, and the birds themselves, is to steer clear of factory farming and buy your Thanksgiving bird from a local producer—preferably from a farm…
Here’s something to think about when you pour yourself your morning cup of coffee: There’s a direct connection between what’s in your mug and the sharply declining numbers of migratory birds. Bird populations in the U.S. and Canada are estimated to have dropped by 29 percent (or 3 billion birds) since 1970, and a key…
I’ve never believed in the notion that someone is born with certain talents. It always seemed too idealistic to think that an affinity towards something could just be passed down through one’s bloodline. Generations upon generations linked mysteriously through DNA and special skills. It sounds nice in a novel or movie, but I’ve always felt…
BUSINESS: Coddiwomple Canning Company LOCATION: Gap, Pa. ESTABLISHED: 2017 We talked to Coddiwomple’s founders, husband and wife team Kimberly Harrington and Brian Cauley, both veterans of the restaurant industry, about their operation and its mission “to reduce food waste by preserving local produce into shelf-stable pantry staples.” What’s a Coddiwomple? It’s an English slang term…
Slow Food believes that wine, just as with food, must be good, clean, and fair — not just good. In fact, the first Slow Food events were centered on wine, specifically wines of the Piemontese region, home of the headquarters of Slow Food International. In conventional wine production, pesticides, herbicides, and excessive water consumption are commonplace. …
Overview In a world where we are constantly bombarded with multisensory inputs about what to eat, what not to eat, and how to eat it, cultivating a diet we feel good about can be challenging. Oftentimes, when we are determining what to eat, we forget to consider where our food is coming from. For omnivores,…
I remember eating Campbell’s Pepper Pot Soup as a child when my mother or grandmother would invariably tell me that “it’s from Philadelphia.” What did that mean, exactly? I promptly forgot about this soup for decades. To me, it remained just one of the many indistinct varieties of canned soup to be found in the…