Potluck has been on my mind lately! Some people love throwing dinner parties and others avoid them completely. Potluck is a great option for the timid party thrower. With a little planning on the hosts part – who will bring what? time? place? A fabulous party can be thrown together without the stress [...]

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Civil Eats – how did this wonderful, simple-looking, but powerfully-voiced blog get past me? As I’m poking around and stumbling on interesting and informative post after post, I think that maybe it is the grown-up and stand-on-its-own version of the blog that started with the Slow Food Nation event last year? Maybe I’m just out [...]

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Culinate has inspired The Weekly Pick with this wonderful picture guide to winter squash. Not only are there pictures of eight beautiful varieties – Sugar Pie, Delicata, Butternut, Kuri, Acorn, Spagetti, Kabocha, and Hubbard, but they also posted recipes for each.
My favorite at the moment is Delicata. They are so easy to prepare – cut [...]

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Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food – wow, that sounds heavy. Zapped is a new book by Wenonah Hauter and Mark Worth of Food & Water Watch set to dispel the misinformation we have been fed about the irradiation of our food.
The U.S. is rushing toward food irradiation as a panacea for preventing food [...]

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This beautiful Farm Hands: A Tribute to the Hands that Feed Us calendar comes from our friends in Columbia, Missouri – Melinda and Dan Hemmelgarn. We met them this summer when they invited us to their house while we were driving from Bonnaroo in Tennesssee to Boulder, Colorado. Melinda made us a delicious breakfast [...]

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From our very own Eat Well Guide: A new tool on their website allows you to download PDF booklets, Local Food Guides, for a city, state or region – showing you local sustainable restaurants, Community Supported Agriculture, organizations, stores, farms and more!
Here’s a little blurb from the Eat Well Guide:
EWG is especially thrilled to feature [...]

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I love getting the weekly Culinate website update in my email box. It comes through with a note from Kim Carlson, the Editorial Director, and always has feature articles, recipes and colorful pictures! The website itself is full of content about food and what to do with it, you could spend days here not [...]

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Chef Keith Snow – creator of Harvest Eating is a good friend of Sustainable Table. We have a section on the Sustainable Table website dedicated to Chef Snow’s videos – everything from “Oven-roasted Cherry Tomatoes” to “Wild Mushroom Risotto.” He makes cooking easy and fun, but even more importantly, sustainable food is essential to his [...]

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This week, while we are heading to San Francisco for Slow Food Nation (hope to see you there!), I thought I would bring attention to a few (more) interesting articles about us! We have had some pretty big press recently – More Magazine, Vegetarian Times, Organic Gardening, and others.
“A Green Giant” More Magazine – [...]

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For our weekly pick this week, our very own Eat Well Guide has put together a great book called “Cultivating the Web,” showing how our current digital age is supporting local sustainable food. The book will debut at Slow Food Nation and will be housed on the Eat Well Guide website, being updated as [...]

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