After I stumbled upon this group on Meetup.com I immediately had to help get the word out. What a great way to meet new people and enjoy some incredible cuisine! The group has over 100 members (and growing) and has already planned a few meetups at local sushi spots - the last of which had 44 people in attendance! The group does maintain a blog if you’d like ...
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. Mario and other chefs have decried blogs, viewed them with scorn at ...
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 people in the business. [...]
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 — imaginable. [...]
Now you can find something to do, or at least find the spot to be everyday of the week in Central PA with the official launch of Spotobe.com . . . . “Whether you’re looking to visit Central Pennsylvania, move here or already live here, bookmark this site to keep up with what’s going on in the region. [...]
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. Sure, it’s about jobs, income, professionalism, self-respect, discipline, all of that. But in the ...
This is the guide to buying local, grass-fed beef that was supposed to run with Sue’s story on PennLive. Chapel-Ridge Farm, 680 Barlow-Greenmount Road, Gettysburg, 334-4222 or 334-5684, www.chapel-ridge.com. All-natural beef raised, sold at Chapel Ridge Meat & Mercantile store 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays or by appointment. Landisdale Farm, 838 Ono Road, Jonestown, Lebanon County, 865-6220: Grass-fed beef available at the farm by appointment. Lil’ Ponderosa Enterprises, 44 Ponderosa ...
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