Articles tagged: local food
food & grocery: A neighborhood market with a mission - Cobblestone Farm Market starts May 21
Posted: 1 day agoGreg Vaclavek of Native Plant Nurseries “Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of ... Read more »
food & grocery: Seeley Farm points the way to a new food system in Washtenaw County
Posted: May 14, 2013You wouldn't know it to look in the well-stocked grocery stores, and you might only guess at it when you're driving around on country roads, but even in this very agricultural area, we're not growing ... Read more »
food & grocery: From Michael Pollan to Mr. Money Mustache, home cooking gains cachet
Posted: Apr 30, 2013From sources as likely as author Michael Pollan, whose latest book "Cooked" was just released, to sources as unlikely as financial blogger Mr. Money Mustache, cooking is finally starting to get some of the respect ... Read more »
food & grocery: Happiness is a farmer's market every day of the week
Posted: Apr 23, 2013As someone who loves to cook, it's thrilling to have such beautiful and delicious ingredients to use during the darkest days of the year. And even when I have to bundle up like a yeti for the walk over, it makes me happy to have this weekly ritual of stocking the larder that feels meaningful — rather than the soul-crushing alternative of the grocery store. Read more »
food & grocery: Project Grow has your heirloom and 'Ark of Taste' tomato and pepper plants on May 11
Posted: Apr 16, 2013Olga's Yellow Round Chicken, Nebraska Wedding, Cosmonaut Volkov, and Snow White are not titles of fairy tales — they're the names of heirloom tomatoes that Project Grow Community Gardens will be selling at their annual ... Read more »
food & grocery: Making cheese and self-sufficiency at Firesign Family Farm
Posted: Apr 09, 2013Most of us in the U.S. have never and will never in our lives taste the fresh clean dairy flavor of milk the way it comes, unpasteurized and un-homogenized, straight from the cow. Not to ... Read more »
food & grocery: How and when we decide to eradicate hunger
Posted: Apr 02, 2013"49 million people in the U.S. — one in four children — don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans," starts ... Read more »
Food & Grocery: Abigail Stauffer and Rap For Food video spoofs Taylor Swift in praise of local food
Posted: Mar 29, 2013A still from Abigail Stauffer's"We Are Never Ever Eating Bad Together," a video celebrating local, healthy food. Wearing "local celebrity" T-shirt and her signature dreadlocks, local singer-songwriter Abigail Stauffer is featured in a new video ... Read more »
food & grocery: In praise of parsnips
Posted: Mar 26, 2013Mock oysters, crisps, cakes, wine(!), soup, pudding, hash — it seems there's almost nothing that the ancestors didn't do with parsnips. Often described as "sweet" and "earthy," parsnips have a distinctive piney note and are ... Read more »
food & grocery: Spring CSA Fair on March 24 offers 'speed dating for local food' and chance to meet farmers
Posted: Mar 19, 2013Snow may still blanket the ground, but I have seen a fat robin redbreast hopping around the yard and purple crocus demanding to bloom. I know spring is closing in with its asparagus and tender ... Read more »
food & grocery: Adventure food: Life's memorable moments often marked with edibles
Posted: Mar 05, 2013Have you ever seen those acrobats who spin a plate at the end of a long stick? They add another stick and another plate, over and over, until they've got a a dozen or more plates spinning, and they're just  teetering on the edge of control, at the same time miraculous and threatening to all come tumbling down? Read more »
column: One carnivore's take on the best meat in Ann Arbor
Posted: Mar 02, 2013Ann Arbor has a reputation that's more Jazzy Veggie than Carnivore Castle, but our little burg has quite an assortment of meaty treats. Read more »
food & grocery: Kale for breakfast, because food is healthcare
Posted: Feb 26, 2013"Medicine is not healthcare — food is healthcare. Medicine is sick care. Let's all get this straight for a change." — Karen Pendergrass Have you noticed how much actual fresh produce there is at the ... Read more »
food & grocery: Bobby Flay's Ann Arbor visit includes Mani Osteria, University of Michigan
Posted: Feb 18, 2013Bobby Flay continues to be seen around Ann Arbor as he visits the city with his daughter. Read more »
food & grocery: Local options available to sample and learn about cheese, glorious cheese
Posted: Feb 12, 2013"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality" — Clifton Fadiman One of the only highlights of these dreary days of winter is that it's fondue time of the year. If you love cheese too, how do ... Read more »
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