Check out the Food to the Rescue Cookbook, created to raise awareness of and support the new Food Rescue of Northwest Michigan. Profits from the sale of the book will support the program. The book includes more than 100 recipes from local celebrities, chefs and others. Purchase as a spiral bound book or download as an ebook.
The folks at The Cooks' House in Traverse City are opening their new Wellington Street Market on Monday, December 15.
Make sure to visit the Michigan Land Use Institute's web site to read Patty Cantrell's new series on how local and state officials can help grow Michigan's local food economy.
After reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, I have a new appreciation for Thanksgiving.
On Saturday, November 29, an all-day workshop titled "Traditional Foods for Health, Beauty and Strength" will be offered in Leland by the Holy Hill Center. This day addresses the work of Sally Fallon, who has extensively researched how whole foods differ from much of the prepared foods available to us today. It will be held from 9 AM to 5 PM, and lunch and two snacks- all based upon traditional foods- are included in the workshop fee of $40 per person.
Today is the last day of the Goodwill Inn's food drive. Items can be dropped off from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Brown Lumber on South Airport Road in Traverse City. Needed items include canned meat and fruit, pancake mix, juice, soups and stews, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti sauce, cereal and peanut butter. Diapers, personal care items and gift cards or cash also will be accepted. The need is great.
Check out this article about the Pugsley Gardens Program, which grew 9 tons of produce distributed to local charities and food pantries.
A couple nice write-ups on Tandem Ciders: one in the Leelanau Enterprise and another on Susan Och's French Road Connections blog.
Cooking Live! @ Aerie atop the Grand Traverse Resort.
Bryan Ulbrich's Left Foot Charley is named one of the top producers east of the Rockies in Robert Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (7th ed).
Jim Sluyter blogs about growing hops in Michigan, including the training session on December 17 at the NW Michigan Horticultural Research Station.
Tickets for the Great Mac & Cheese Bake-off, to be held November 29, are now on sale at the wineries on the Old Mission Peninsula and at the Traverse City Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
Thanks for the thoughtful read, Eric.
Check out today's article in the Traverse City Record-Eagle about Jen and Nic Welty, who put the "farm" in Black Star Farms. Interesting read on the business angle too, and its investment in young people and farm-to-table agriculture.
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