From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Eat-In an important Labor Day event nationwide!

August 31, 2009

Check out Slow Food USA’s web­site here to find out where you can attend the nation­wide Eat-In on Labor Day. We need to bring national atten­tion to the unac­cept­able food served to school­child­ren on a daily basis.
Here is a list of the key ideas of the Eat-In:

We’re call­ing for Con­gress to pass a Child Nutri­tion Act that […]

Tagged as: activism, event, political, slowfood

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Pickling and Canning, Day Two

August 31, 2009

Thrilled with learn­ing the age-old tra­di­tion of pre­serv­ing the summer’s har­vest for the colder win­ter months ahead, I invited Chef Sylvia Padron over to help moti­vate me to make some pick­les today. She works at Twenty/20 Grill in Carls­bad, CA– a really cool restau­rant that embraces the Slow Food phi­los­o­phy. We had an awe­some time– […]

Tagged as: canning, food, pickling

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Summer Harvest, Preserving

August 30, 2009

I’m obsessed with can­ning and pre­serv­ing. Yes­ter­day I expe­ri­enced mak­ing Tomato Jam with Chef Emma Dilemma from Home­grown Ini­tia­tive– a really cool web­site focus­ing on local farms and food initiatives.

Tomato Jam:

5 pounds very ripe toma­toes, roughly diced, stem removed (we got them at the Carls­bad Farmer’s Mar­ket for $.50 per pound!!)
A cou­ple glugs of Organic Olive Oil
Handfull […]

Tagged as: canning, emma dilemma, homegrowninitiative.org, jam, summer

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