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Wed Feb 10, 2010 at 17:03:06 PM PST
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(Also at Nevada Progressive)
OK, I'm sure some of you have loved my recent reviews of some of Las Vegas' finest dining establishments... And some of you have just been rolling your eyes and wondering when I'll step out of Fru-fru-land and get to the burgers and fries.
So guess what?
IT'S BURGER TIME, PEEPS!
I want to share with you two of my favorite burger joints, one on Strip and one off Strip. Both are fantastic, but neither will destroy (what's left of) your 401(k).
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 17:31:11 PM PST
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(Also at Nevada Progressive)
When my father's birthday was approaching in December, I knew I wanted to do something special to celebrate. So what to do? Where to go? What should we eat?
Then all of a sudden, I had an idea. Yes, this was the place. ;-)
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Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 08:37:03 AM PST
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How about a high school class that takes students from the inner city, most of them from poor families, to the butcher shop to show them where the meat comes from, and to farms to show them where their food is grown? And has them run large gardens to grow food for themselves and their families?
They also read articles by writers like Michael Pollan and Wendell Berry and watch documentaries like Food, Inc. The teacher has them work at a farmers' market and do volunteer work with the food-challenged.
This class is run out of the Automotive High School in Brooklyn and is one of the most popular classes offered. Perhaps because the teacher also takes them to a farm where they get to make apple cider and apple pies, feed the pigs, and sweep up cow manure. In short the students learn that their food doesn't just come from packages in the supermarket and from McDonalds and Burger King.
This sounds like a really neat course that I wish had been offered decades ago when I was in high school. If I had taken it, I might have chosen to go into farming myself.
Chek it out in the NYTimes at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02...
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 16:01:51 PM PST
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(Also at Nevada Progressive)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear it all the time. Supposedly, dining in Las Vegas sucks. Supposedly, there's nothing original about Vegas eats. Supposedly, one can't live and eat sustainably in Vegas. And supposedly, one can't eat well on a budget.
Well, let me put your "supposing" to rest once and for all!
OK, OK, we'll just talk about cheap eats today. (The rest I'll cover later in the series.)
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Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 07:49:26 AM PST
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Hello and Happy Thanksgiving. These photos and stories appeared elsewhere last night. I hope you and yours get a chance to enjoy this all natural ingredients story on your holiday.
Next Wednesday the most famous Christmas Tree In New York City lights up where there was once a Botanical Gardens. Up in the Bronx at the New York Botanical Garden it is already beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On Saturday The Eighteenth Annual Holiday Train Show pulled into town and you can enjoy the delights of a miniature Rockefeller Center Christmas tree already at this favorite for children of all ages.
The star of this New York holiday favorite may seem like the model railway trains chugging through a glass house but children also get to experience the architecture of New York, past and present. Children are inspired by handmade art that is created from plant materials such as bark, moss, twigs, berries, and pine cones.
Below the fold is a photographic guide from start to finish of this year's Holiday Train Show for your children to enjoy and a few old New York stories for you. It's a family outing that definitely has GreenRoots.
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Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 07:33:54 AM PST
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 In these tough economic times, the last thing you'd think you'd see someone doing would be to open a new restaurant, especially a fancy one. If you heard someone was doing this, in a new, untested location, and had spent a million bucks on tenant improvements to a newly-constructed ultra-green office building over the past year, you might start to question their sanity.
But then, you'd have to come and experience the vision and nearly-ready-to-open reality of Gather, an organic cafe and restaurant providing access for all to the sustainable food movement, "Seasonal farm food among friends... where people can always find something healthy, reasonably priced and deeply satisfying to eat."
Follow me over the fold for a sneak peek from last night's preview tasting, some background about the setting and the vision, and how we can bring about a revolution, one bite at a time.
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Mon Oct 05, 2009 at 04:08:53 AM PDT
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John and Jackie Stower run the Manna Storehouse in LaGrange, Ohio. Last December their organic food coop and homeschool were raided by a SWAT team, who invaded their home with guns drawn, held them and their family captive for six hours, and confiscated a large amount of food. No charges were ever filed. The Buckeye Institute is helping the Stowers sue the The Lorain County General Health District, the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The trial will open October 8 and 9 at 8:30 am.
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 17:49:00 PM PDT
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Canning fresh fruits and vegetables as a cheap and effective method of preserving large amounts of food dates back to the Napoleonic Wars in late 18th century France. While its origins are military in nature (regular supplies of food were scarce in winter), and demand for mass-produced tinned food skyrocketed due to military demand during World War I, it is important to note that you can can cans or glass jars in the comfort of your own home.
As we talk about climate change and the ways in which we can reduce CO2 emissions worldwide, I feel that the important discussions about carbon treaties and international mandates need to be accompanied by concrete ideas as to how everyday people will be able to live healthy lives in a world where fossil-fuel intensive practices and products will come at a much higher price than we are currently accustomed to. Preserving our locally grown and harvested food at home is not only a great way to eat delicious food year-round and have fun with friends, but it significantly reduces the carbon footprint associated with mass-produced and globally transported food.
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 17:36:35 PM PDT
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Hi everybody, I've been wanting to post over here for a while, so this seems to me a good cause to step into the locavore zone...
Two weeks ago, on September 3, a fire at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, California, burned down two chicken houses with 1000 baby chicks trapped in it, the old 1880s barn, thirty acres of pasture for the meat birds, beautiful oaks, and all the old plum trees. Alexis and Eric Koefoed, who in the late 1990s had bought the farm that had been untended for 30 years, had been poised to launch their CSA of free-roaming and pasture-raised chickens for both eggs and meat in October. Like most small farms, they were operating without a safety net, so the fire was absolutely devastating.
In a true outpouring of support and community, fundraising dinners, raffles and a chicken house building workday have been scheduled, but to keep operations going, any small and large cash donation is needed and welcomed.
You can donate by clicking this link to PayPal; those who dislike PayPal can also mail a check made out to Soul Food Farm, 6046 Pleasants Valley Rd., Vacaville, CA 95688.)
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Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 20:08:35 PM PDT
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This was posted earlier at DailyKos. It's nothing more than a walk in the park.
Tonight I would like to tell a story about a walk on Tuesday that was the most pleasant and cleansing walk I had in a long long time. It was also a long long walk that started at a Riverdale gas station and ended with two buses taking one hour to get back home.
Here's a view I've shown before. The last time in Just a Walk in the Park, Van Cortlandt Park the white pepper bush framed the lake. Now in the ragweed season, there is some goldenrod on the side and the pepper bush has gone to seed.
It was the first of September and the whole forest was busy preparing for a transition. I could feel it from the moment I walked in. The summer comfort of the cool forest compared with the city streets was gone. It seemed warmer than being out in the sunlight. Another difference was the return of a familiar sound, a sound that often make me think there must be a waterfall close by in a less familiar forest. But since I know this forest so well, I knew it was the September breeze blowing through the leaves in the blue sky above.
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Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 17:26:29 PM PDT
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Labor Day, to most people, is little more than the end of summer. Labor Day commemorates the labor union movement, the demand for an eight hour work day, better working conditions, fair wages and an end to child labor.
In 1894 Labor Day became a federal holiday celebrated as a "workingman's holiday" on the first Monday of September honoring the contributions of working men and women to America.
While labor unions were organizing in the 1870's, small farmers, through the Grange Movement were trying to break the power of the railroads, the meat packers and the grain milling interests. Mary Elizabeth Lease urged the farmers to "raise less corn and more hell", but farmers could never unite as the labor unions had.
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Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 18:41:21 PM PDT
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Not really a secret because it's all over the burbs of Southern California, the land of grass farmers. The coveted grass is more valuable than growing food and even in this economic crisis compounded by a devastating drought people are more worried about their lawns and city landscaping then letting people grow food.
I was reading La Vida Locavore when I saw that Jill Richardson posted something about missing her beloved cantaloupes this season due to the lack of water and making it a short growing season for her favorite melon.
But what struck me was the fact that the City of San Diego has a moratorium on community gardens because of said lack of water.
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Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 13:47:09 PM PDT
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The beginning of high summer is a good time to pause and reflect on the workings and accomplishments of this itty, bitty piece of cropland nestled in the middle of miles of brick and asphalt.
Though far from unique, its effects, aside from the personal benefits, are spreading like seeds on the wind. "Farmer Josh's" garden next door is blooming furiously. So dense is the ticket of cucumbers, beans and sunflowers, the cyclone fence between our yards is invisible. [frumpf, mumble, mumble about the other neighbor...]
[insert entropic lament]
Yards like ours used to be separated by brick fences affording their occupants a small measure of privacy and solitude away from the ever constant urban din.
[insert cheery coda]
At least we have a huge green wall in the months when being outside is at its most pleasant.
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Fri May 08, 2009 at 08:04:34 AM PDT
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As this is the last diary in this cooking series, it bodes well: I have been a huge fan of Creole cuisine ever since a friend of the family prepared a Caribbean style seafood gumbo and had it served at midnight. I was eight and impressed. It turns out that quite a few citizens from our neighboring villages took off to Canada some four hundred years ago and became Acadians. Then got their asses kicked to Louisiana, and became Cajuns. However, this edition of Creole food is not about the New Orleans/Louisiana food treasures (this should be two separate diaries), instead it features the sunny Caribbean islands cooking, and in particular the fiery dishes of the French Antilles, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Cross-posted on the Big Orange (later) and as I need a hiatus from blogging due to an immense workload, I bid you goodbye for now, and see you in September.
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Fri May 01, 2009 at 12:42:37 PM PDT
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On the Big Orange some prefer to post a GBCW diary, me I prefer to post a really good food diary and disappear into the folds of teh internets as a lurker.....for a while. My life is becoming even more complicated and busier that I thought, which leaves me little time to write about my passionate love affair with food & wine though I will write one more next week, this time it will be about one of my very favorite cuisines in the world, Creole. But enough about me, let's go on a Persian Magic carpet ride!
Cross-posted on the Big Orange!
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