Carlisle Area Local Producer Tour & Lunch
The Carlisle & Newville areas have exploded with local producers selling fresh organic vegetables, free-range chickens and eggs, artisan cheese and handmade crafts. The area also boasts two vibrant farmers markets. Food writer and Slow Food Harrisburg member Kay Graham has put together a great program.
At 9am [...]

Endangered species have come out of the woods and onto the table.
No, people aren’t eating piping plovers or eastern pumas. At least no one I know. But people also aren’t eating a lot of the vegetables our grandparents ate … because they don’t exist any more. Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland and the rest [...]

Michael Ruhlman did a great post on chefs who blog, with a bunch of links and a link to more.
I’ve wanted to put a list of chef blogs in the right column of this page for ages but a number of posts and articles about chefs who write have forced me off the couch. [...]

The Pennsylvania Farmstead and Artisan Cheese Alliance is offering a cheese tasting at 5:30 on Thursday, April 3, to chefs and restaurant owners.
If you’ve never tasted Dragon’s Breath or Ewe’s Dream or the other artisan cheeses made around here, it’s worth the trip to Carlisle. The event is not open to the public, only to [...]

We got a happy surprise at the Carlisle Market on Saturday. Jonas Stoltzfus of Jujo Acres Beef Farm had set up next to Sandy Miller of Painted Hand Farm and the Fishers of Otterbein Acres Farm.
So within ten steps there was all the free-range grass-fed organic beef, lamb, pigs, goats and chickens — and eggs [...]

This was a comment by Pubcrawler that I thought I’d steal:
In response to the Good Life Cafe being “the one and only local farm restaurant” and, “It may be the only one in Pennsylvania,” let me tell you about Elk Creek Cafe + Aleworks in Millheim, PA and Emma’s Food for Life in Selinsgrove, PA.
I [...]

Four guys will graduate from The Kitchen School tonight — four guys “who have overcome roadblocks ranging from fear to felony,” according to Maureen Romanowski of CHANNELS Food Rescue
CHANNELS operates the 12-week culinary arts job-training program for low-income, disadvantaged adults in the Harrisburg area. It is an amazing, turn-your-life-around idea, run by Chef Michael DeMarco. [...]