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 ...
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 ...
Sue Gleiter Food Writer took a good look today at local grass-fed beef in the P-N. “I very emphatically try and get people to grasp the concept, you are what you eat, and more importantly, you are what your animals eat,” Lil’ Ponderosa Enterprises owner Bob Boyce told Sue. “People don’t get that linkage anymore. People think a cow is a square box in the grocery store. We have removed ...
“Americans have begun to ask why the farm bill is subsidizing high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils at a time when rates of diabetes and obesity among children are soaring, or why the farm bill is underwriting factory farming (with subsidized grain) when feedlot wastes are polluting the countryside and, all too often, the meat supply. “For the first time, the public health community has raised its voice in ...
We’ve been eating lunch on Saturdays at The Good Life Cafe in Carlisle, the one and only local farm restaurant. It may be the only one in Pennsylvania. David Ison and Ruth Busko feature organic produce from Spiral Path, dairy products from Keswick Creamery, Three Maples in Millersburg and Trickling Springs Creamery, grass-fed beef from … Tuscarora Lowlines and chicken from Three Maples. “I have a particular commitment ...
This is the last post here, and the first post on Slow Food Harrisburg. I’ve been vexed by my current radicalization about food, because I don’t know if it will interest anyone but me. And I didn’t want to keep writing about Slow Food on a page supposedly devoted to eating out in Harrisburg, which definitely has a Restaurant Row implication. Anyway, I renamed the blog, moved all the ...
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