By Kathryn Reed Using a spork, Odette Sosa eagerly scoops out the fruit of the kiwi that has been cut in half. She got it off a friend’s tray. She had already eaten her orange – what she said at the time was the best part of the meal. But she wanted more fruit. This […]
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By Kathryn Reed What’s up with all this talk of chicken? My Cooking Light and Bon Appetit magazines arrived this week with chicken on the cover. An issue of Single Leaf Winery’s newsletter I picked up last weekend featured a chicken recipe. Food photos can really sell a person on a recipe. Even though I don’t […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Putting farmers onto underused land was once a matter of creating homesteads. Now it has entered the computer age, with nonprofits using the Internet to match farmland with growers. The need, advocates say, comes in part from an aging farm population. California farmers age 65 or older outnumber farmers under […]
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By Kathryn Reed Between 4 million and 6.5 million pounds of wild rice are harvested each year in Minnesota. A few ounces arrived in my post office box the other day. In the package was a recipe for wild rice casserole. With the recipe and wild rice (which is actually an aquatic grass and not […]
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By Kathryn Reed FAIR PLAY – Not a cloud in the sky, not many people in the wineries. From a consumer standpoint the first day of the El Dorado County barrel tasting event was great. From the viewpoint of some of the 27 wineries that are part of the event, Saturday was disappointing. Coming off […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The grass-roots (and grass-fed) agriculture revolution that Patty Chelseth started last summer is picking up steam. Chelseth, of My Sisters’ Farm in Shingle Springs, has launched a campaign to get a “Local Food and Community Self-Governance” ordinance. Her effort got a warm reception Tuesday from the El Dorado County Board […]
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The Community Education department at Lake Tahoe Community College is having a Get Fresh and Healthy workshop series in February. Take one, all four or any combination. Cooking with Spices is Feb. 2 from 6-9pm. Winter Soup is Feb. 10 from 6-9pm. Food the Kids will Love too is Feb. 16 from 6-9pm. Gluten Free […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though it didn’t seem like winter in Lake Tahoe until a few days ago, that was not stopping me from making soup. But something about the snow falling on Monday made it even more appealing to create something hot to eat. It was easy to forget about work as the aromas […]
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By Shelley Giannotta First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the new standards for school meals Jan. 25. While I support and encourage ongoing changes and improvements to school meals, I am disappointed to read what Obama had to say. It is unfortunately a generic statement that put all school meals in […]
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By Jenn Garbee, Los Angeles Times It’s ironic, in a rosemary-infused sort of way, that in today’s farm-to-table restaurant era few chef-and-farmer relationships have evolved into the true collaborations those farm-specific menus often suggest. Their lives tend to exist in parallel worlds, firmly rooted together but never quite merging. Like many farmers, Bill and Barbara […]
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