Tag: Farm to Table
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Thanksgiving Dinner 2022 – Favorite recipes from The Empty Nesters Kitchen
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Hiyu Wine Farm
“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul” ~ Clifton Fadiman Twenty-two miles fromMount Hood’s snowy peak,in an alpine river valley teemingwith birds and oscillating light,lives a wild farm. Cows, chickens,and pigs graze among vines and fungi and flowers proliferate as gardens merge with forest.” ~ Hiyu Website Birthdays are special,…
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Harvest Recipe: Roasted Delicata Squash with Bacon, Local Maple Syrup and Goat Cheese
John and I spent the 2020 Thanksgiving holiday in an unusually quiet fashion last year due to COVID-19. I still cooked the full dinner, because to me the Thanksgiving meal is about sharing love & gratitude, and I wasn’t going to let the coronavirus get in the way of that. We pivoted from our usual…
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Farm To Plate Recipe: Sustainable Sunday Brunch Made With A Farmers Market Bounty
“Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them they will always tell you a story” ~ Chef José Andrés This food story begins with a Saturday trip to the Mill City Farmers Market in Minneapolis. I made my first visit of the spring season yesterday. The farmers market is an…
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Sustainable Travel: 3 Days at CASA MÃE In Lagos, Portugal
“Putting tourism on a sustainable path is a major challenge, but one that also presents a significant opportunity” ~ Klaus Töpfer We find travel to be exciting and alluring and John & I derive an indescribable amount of positive energy from immersing ourselves in other cultures. In our daily life, we try try to live…
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Farm to Fork Stories: Meet Your Farmer, Tony Root of
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.” ~ Wendell Berry It is my pleasure to introduce you to Farmer Tony Root (Anthony Schaden is his family name). If you’ve dined at any of the 9 marvelous restaurants within the Bartmann Group this…
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Farm to Fork Sustainability: The Story Of Skuna Bay Salmon
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water” ~ Loren Eiseley Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Jeanine Siemens of Skuna Bay/Grieg Seafood. Skuna Bay is owned by Grieg Seafood and is the premium seafood product that Grieg Seafood produces. I had the good fortune to meet Jeanine at…
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Sustainable Living Recipes: Carrot Cake Made From ‘Rescued Carrots’
“Use Everything – Waste Nothing” ~ Quote by Anthony Bourdain (from Wasted: The Story of Food Waste, a Netflix documentary) John and I recently attended the Taste the Waste event at the Red Stag Supperclub in NE Minneapolis. The mission for this function was to bring awareness to the enormous amount of food that is wasted…
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The Farm To Fork Project: How We Can Work Together To Achieve Sustainability
“If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or most profitable, you’re just not seeing the big picture” ~ Dan Barber Sustainability. What does it mean? And why is it so important? You will get a multitude of answers to the above questions depending on who you ask. It can vary…