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"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
Harriet van Hom
"Laughter is brightest where food is best."
Irish Proverb
Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol (by Mary G. Enig)
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
Harriet van Hom
"Laughter is brightest where food is best."
Irish Proverb
Responsible Food Sources
- Black Earth Meat Market: 100% organic classic butcher (happy to hook you up with a farm that fits your needs)
- Bolzano Artisan Meats: Wisconsin's first dry curing producer
- Crystal Ball Farms: organic dairy
- Eat Wild: grass fed food & facts (including finding)
- Farm Fresh Atlas of Southeastern Wisconsin: Local Food Guide
- JenEhr Family Farms: organic produce, chickens, turkeys, soon to be pigs
- Local Harvest: locate responsible food sources near you
- Otter Creek Organic Farm:environmental stewardship, sustainable agriculture, and family farming
- Outpost: Milwaukee's own co-op
- Sassy Cow Creamery: dairy
- Seed Savers Exchange: preserving heirloom seed varieties
- Solar Harvest Farm: organic meat & eggs raised by solar power
- The Spice House: THE source in Milwaukee for all things spice (food & knowledge)
- Weston's Antique Apples: orchard dedicated to preserving over 100 antique apple varieties
About Me
- Jen
- Surviving our winter in Wisconsin by busying ourselves with family and food, and sharing my obsession with food with my husband, Bryan, our son, Oliver, our family, and anyone else who will listen.
oliver's latest
- "we already talked about this, mom." (2/24/11)
- "but... how do you break it?" (2/17/11)
- told me the moon looks like it's in a chrylsalis (because of the clouds), proceeded to explain how a caterpiller turns into a butterfly, and then exclaimed, "i LOVE metamorphosis!" (2/16/11)
- when i told him he is getting bigger: "yeah, but then i will grow and grow and be a giant! i don't want to be a giant!" (2/11/11)
- "but when there is a half moon, where are the other parts?" (2/9/11)
- "mom, i wish i was a good boy" (2/5/11)
- started swimming lessons (1/26/11)
- first sushi experience (12/28/10)
- "i will sing campfire songs AFTER i get my smarshmallow." (10/9/10)
- "mom, we're DOOMED!" (10/4/10)
rosie's latest
- fascinated with sucking her fingers (02/11)
- topped 15 lbs! (1/18/11)
- 2 month stats: 13 lbs 12 oz, 24.5 inches long (97th percentile) (12/28/10)
- slept through the night (12/20/10)
- smiling & laughing (12/10)
what i'm reading
Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol (by Mary G. Enig)
Links of Note
- Adrianne Goes on the (International) Road
- Air Bubble Blog
- Burp Blog: Where Food Happens
- Cake Walk: Baking and then some
- CHOW: Food. Drink. Fun.
- Dissertation to Dirt: Urbanites chuck it all in pursuit of farming happiness
- eGullet
- Fed Up with School Lunch
- Les Dames d' Escoffier
- Saveur
- Slow Food
- The Eco Table - my food blog
- ViaLocus: will the real indiana jones please stand up?
- Vintage Recipes
- Yulinka Cooks: Traditional Russian Cooking
revolt
- Ask Trader Joe's to go 100% GMO Free
- Tell Congress to End Oil Subsidies
- Tell Congress to Label Genetically Engineered Food
- Tell the DOJ it's time to Break Up Monsanto
- H.B. No. 1534 - Hawaii's GMO Truth-in-Labeling Bill
- Stop GMO Salmon
- Stop GMO Apples
- Stop the First Factory Fish Farm in U.S. Waters
- Tell Congress to Support Labeling and Safety Testing of GE Foods
- Stop the Introduction of GM Alfalfa into your Supply Chain
- Call on the EPA to solve the mystery that's killing our bees
- Kellogg's Loves Their Frankenfood Ingredients!
- Tell Kraft You're Joining the Boycott of their Genetically Modified Foods!
- Urge Congress To Take A Stand Against GE Fish!
- The GOOD Challenge: Give Up Processed Food for a Month
- Ask Your Representative and Senators to Co-sponsor the Bill to Ban GE Salmon
- Do-It-Yourself GMO Labels: Show Grocers How to Label Their GMO and Factory Farmed Foods!
- Ask Your State Legislators to Introduce Bills to Label GMO Foods
- If Obama's FDA Approves GMO Salmon, Congress Must Act!
- Urge Congress to Freeze Approval of GE Salmon
learn
- Why being a foodie isn't 'elitist'
- Farmers hit hard by soaring input costs
- Wendell Berry: Finding Examples Of Good Work
- Top 10 Sustainable Food Books
- Food: Six Things to Feel Good About
- Del Monte Gives Middle Finger to Nature with Plastic-Bagged Bananas
- California's Food System (Interview with Michael Pollan)
- Local and Organic Food and Farming: The Gold Standard
- Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility
- A Healthy Nation Needs Healthy Farms
- A Food Manifesto for the Future
- Foodies Can Eclipse (and Save) the Green Movement
- Over 9,900 Upset Consumers Tell Fair Trade Certifier 'No Thanks' on Name Change
- Dear Obamas: Let's move... on Food Policy Reform
- Still drinking diet soda? Don’t be a fashion victim!
- What the heck is alfalfa, anyway?
- Using Marginal Croplands for Good Grazing Land
- Gleaning A Harvest For The Needy By Fighting Waste
- More food banks offer fresh fruits, vegetables
- Why You Should Care About Genetically Modified Alfalfa
- Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later
- WE STAND UNITED IN OPPOSITION TO GE ALFALFA
- Who Owns That "Little" Organic Company?
- The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?
- Hundreds of Yankton, South Dakota birds poisoned by USDA
- Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health
- Lawsuit Filed In California Court Over Taco Bell Beef
- Powered by Nature
- Dive: Living Off America's Waste
- Working Fast to Slow Climate Change: Farmers Inspire Hope & Action
- California sacrifices farm workers in favor of strawberries
- Wes Jackson Talks About the Connection Between Agriculture and Climate Change
- Big Meat vs. Michael Pollan
- Junking Junk Food
- Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a GMO Crop, Orders Removal of Genetically Engineered Sugar Beet Seed Crop
- Tiles, Farmers and the Dead Zone
- There Is More To The Local Movement Than Just Food
- The Real Price of Today's Cheap Food
- Grass Fed: A Few Beefs
- Michael Pollan cites disconnect between us and what we eat
- UN scientists say emission pledges fall well short of halting climate change
- How Wal-Mart, Google and Other Corporate Giants Are Trying to Trick Progressive Consumers
- Divided We Eat
- Help the planet: Stop wasting food
- Double Food Pyramid Encourages Sustainable Eating
- Bees May Be Bellwether of Food Supply Challenges
- From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can
- Grocery stores try setting up fake farmers markets
- How Ultra-Processed Foods Are Killing Us
- The Truth about GMO Salmon
- UN: Farming needs changes
- Monsanto Roundup Linked to Birth Defects in New Study
- VIDEO: "Systemic" Abuses in Organic Egg Production
- Report Spotlights “Systemic” Abuses in Organic Egg Production
- The Truth About Farm Raised Shrimp
- How Do You Know It's Really Fair Trade?
- GM protesters dump on Monsanto
- GMO? Just say NO: A Precautionary Tale
- Court rules rBGH-free milk *is* better than the kind produced with artificial hormones. Now what?
- Rethinking The Food Pyramid: USDA Aims For 'Superior' Guide
- Plan to Ban Food Stamps for Sodas Has Hurdles
- This is why we’re fat—by the numbers
- What's Fueling the Battle Over Raw Milk?
- What makes food grow - and why that matters
- Portland schools ditch nuggets, serve up local food
- GM food battle moves to fish as super-salmon nears US approval
- Eating Healthy Foods Can Save You Money
- Say hello to mechanically separated chicken
- An 11-year-old schools us on what’s wrong with the current food system
- GM food battle moves to fish as super-salmon nears US approval
- If You Want to Age Gracefully, Don't Eat This
- False promises of GM rice research
- Groundbreaking Study Shows Roundup Link to Birth Defects
- New breed of butchers works against the grain
- U.S. Meat Farmers Brace for Limits on Antibiotics
- Corn syrup producers want sweeter name: corn sugar
- Non-stick pans linked to childhood high cholesterol
- The 12 Year Old McDonald's Hamburger: Like new
- McDonald's Hamburgers Don't Age
- More People Choosing Kosher for Health
- Safer For Your Soul, But Is Kosher Healthier, Too?
- GM crop escapes into the American wild
- EPA Slaps Monsanto with Record Fine
- What is Organic and Why Should I Care?
- A Recent Article on the Egg Recall that Completely Misses the Point
- 10 Reasons to Eat Organic
- Nuts and Sprouts Recalled due to Salmonella
- Cargill Beef E.Coli Outbreak
- Deli Meat Recall
- After a half billion bad eggs get released, the FDA reveals filthy conditions of Wright County Egg
- Judge Bans Monsanto Sugar Beets
- Hidden Dangers Within our Foods
- Fixing a World That Fosters Fat
- Monsanto's Phosphate Operation
- Egg Recall: U.S. Chose Not To Require Vaccine For Salmonella Egg Threat
- Monsanto & Dole Team Up to Force-Feed Consumers Genetically Engineered Fruits & Veggies
- Super weeds put USDA on hotseat
- The Myth of the Rabid Locavore
- Another distributor recalls eggs on salmonella fears
- GM Canola Escapes Into The Wild
- Salmonella outbreak prompts recall of 228M eggs
- 'Fructose-Slurping' Cancer Could Sour the Soda Business
- Why You Should Boycott Target: Target Corporation Message to LGBT Community: We Won't Make it Right
- Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets
- Farmers Lean to Truce on Animals’ Close Quarters
- Tip 14: EWG's Back-To-School Guide
- Female Infants Growing Breasts: Another Disaster From Hormones in Milk Production
- Better Farms, Improved Lives? Read and decide (be sure to read the comments).
- Tapped: Indie Documentary about Bottled Water
- FDA to open forum on methyl iodide
- California Firm Recalls Frozen Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. Coli O157: H7 Contamination
- Three Taco Bell Ingredient Outbreaks in Ten Years
- Salmonella outbreak may have ties to Taco Bell
- E. coli Outbreak Prompts Million Pound Beef Recall
- Frozen Meals Linked to Salmonella Outbreak
- Senate bill will keep the 'family' in family farms
- Roundup's potency slips, foils farmers
- Good Food for All Agenda: Creating a New Regional Food System for Los Angeles
- World Co2 Emissions
- Diet and the evolution of the brain
- An Exchange on Raw Milk
- Meat Based Diet Made Us Smarter
- The deaths of a climate scientist and of meaningful climate-change legislation bode poorly for a prosperous energy-independent future.
- Chemicals Law Overhaul Proposed in House
- The killing fields of MNCs
- Top 10 Reasons to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
- How diet soda causes weight gain
- Want raw milk? Lease a farm—and hire a lawyer
- Drinking Raw Milk is Worth the Risk
- Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs—here are 5 tips for surviving one
- Dead zone in gulf linked to ethanol production
- UN Says Organic Farming Can Feed World, Save Climate
- Oil entering Gulf's food chain
- Fructose intake may increase blood pressure risk
- The Carnivore’s Dilemma
- UN body to look at meat and climate link
- Can Meat Eaters Also Be Environmentalists?
- Jamie Oliver hits back after Health Secretary's criticism
- Bigger ‘Dead Zone’ projected for Gulf, even without oil’s effects
- Nitrates in water and food may increase womens' thyroid cancer risks
- U.S. should follow Europe and put the brakes on nanotech food and other products
- The Hundred Years' War over Toxic Chemicals
- Fish & Sustainability Articles
- How Cows (Grass-fed Only) Could Save the Planet
- Is food dye just a colorful killer?
- The Silly Secret about Chicken McNuggets
- School food cheat sheet: The federal government takes on school food
- Are Free-Range Eggs Less Healthy Than Regular Eggs?
- Acid Rain Returns--This Time It Is Caused by Nitrogen Emissions
- Hospital moves beyond institutional cuisine with local produce, meat
- Monsanto Co Contributions to Federal Candidates
- Kucinich Announces Right to Know Legislation in Wake of Alfalfa Supreme Court Ruling
- GMOs hidden in our foods
- Supreme Court Case a Defeat for Monsanto's Ambitions
- Monsanto's Glyphosate Problems: Scientist Warns of Dire Consequences with Widespread Use
- Sustainable ag practices on the rise
- Meat Labels: What Do They Really Mean?
- Foir Gras Causes Uproar
- 85% of Kids’ Drinks, Snacks Could Contain High Levels of Lead
- BP Helped Write Cap-n-Trade Bill
- The Organic Food Solution: why buying organics might be the best thing you can do for your body--and the planet
- FDA tests lipsticks, finds lead in all
- Conklin Dairy Farms Video Shows Dairy Cows Being Violently Abused
- Chicken Farmers Decry "Indentured Servitude," Industry Monopolization, In Hearing
- RECALL: Salmonella-Tainted Alfalfa Sprouts Sold To 400 Wal-Marts
- Animals, Kids, and Slaughterhouse Effects on Crime
- Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer
- Mysterious bee disease on the rise in Erie region
- Genetically Modified Justice: Why Did Elena Kagan Go to Bat for Monsanto’s GMO Alfalfa?
- Genetically Modified Foods Could Cause Long-Term Sterility
- New food-safety rules threaten small, organic farms
- President's Cancer Panel: 'Eat Organic, Ward Off Cancer'
- Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
- Monsanto's Poison Pills for Haiti
- Toxic glue used in supermarket food packaging 'poses severe risk to health'
- India embroiled in bitterly contested GM debate
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