THIS IS AN ARCHIVE OF LAKE TAHOE NEWS, WHICH WAS OPERATIONAL FROM 2009-2018. IT IS FREELY AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH. THE WEBSITE IS NO LONGER UPDATED WITH NEW ARTICLES.
    image_pdfimage_print
  • School food program — a necessity for many in LTUSD

    School food program — a necessity for many in LTUSD

    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 […]

    Read more
  • K’s Kitchen: Drumsticks for the Super Bowl

    K’s Kitchen: Drumsticks for the Super Bowl

    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 […]

    Read more
  • Matchmakers put people with farmland

    Matchmakers put people with farmland

    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 […]

    Read more
  • K’s Kitchen: A casserole with Minnesota’s state grain

    K’s Kitchen: A casserole with Minnesota’s state grain

    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 […]

    Read more
  • Ma Nature, lack of publicity hurt El Dorado wineries

    Ma Nature, lack of publicity hurt El Dorado wineries

    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 […]

    Read more
  • Local-food movement gets verbal support from El Dorado County officials

    Local-food movement gets verbal support from El Dorado County officials

    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 […]

    Read more
  • LTCC offering 4 workshops devoted to healthy eating

    LTCC offering 4 workshops devoted to healthy eating

    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 […]

    Read more
  • K’s Kitchen: A soup of carrots and corriander

    K’s Kitchen: A soup of carrots and corriander

    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 […]

    Read more
  • Opinion: LTUSD ahead of federal lunch guidelines

    Opinion: LTUSD ahead of federal lunch guidelines

    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 […]

    Read more
  • Chefs, farmers join forces

    Chefs, farmers join forces

    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 […]

    Read more
  • image_pdfimage_print