Monthly Archives: September 2009

Eat Local Challenge 2009

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 30, 2009
For the second time I’m participating in the Eat Local Challenge. The traditional Eat Local Challenge is a basic concept: commit to eating only locally grown foods for a period of thirty days. Declare “exceptions” that you will not be eating locally, and try as hard as you can to have everything else come from [...]
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Pollan Op-Ed in The Times

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 10, 2009
I know many of you share my interest in Michael Pollan’s perspective on food issues. He has an Op-Ed this week in The New York Times on Big Food vs. Big Insurance, arguing that we won’t be able to solve the health care crisis in this country until we solve the health crisis in this [...]
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Reactions to Pollan’s Latest Magazine Piece

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 9, 2009
Culinate serves up a roundup of reactions on the web to Michael Pollan’s latest New York Times Magazine piece, Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch, which meditates on the paradoxically simultaneous rise of the Food Network and decline of home cookery. Although I can sympathize with some of the criticism (I agree that using [...]
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Local Food Production Initiative Granted Non-Profit Status

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 9, 2009
Fairhope’s Local Food Production Initiative has been granted 501 c 3 status, meaning that any contributions you make to the organization are now deductible from Federal income tax as a charitable contribution.
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The Home Canning Renaissance

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 8, 2009
With the full-on media blitz about the recession, the renaissance of home canning has gotten some press, and while it’s a bit late for us on the Gulf Coast to take advantage of summer’s bounty, this could prove useful for fall’s harvest or next year. In the New York Times, Preserving Time in a Bottle [...]
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Backyard Wildlife: Great Purple Hairstreak

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 7, 2009
My daughter and I found a butterfly in our yard today that I had never seen before. It was pristine, as if freshly emerged, and dramatically beautiful. It sat quietly on a blade of grass with its wings closed, showing rich black wings marked with bits of bright blue, and a bright orange, fuzzy abdomen. [...]
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Join Slow Food USA at Whatever Price You Can Afford

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 6, 2009
For anyone like me who’s ever thought about joining Slow Food USA but balked at the membership fee, heads up on this limited-time offer: “through the end of September, Slow Food USA is scrapping the $60 donation requirement, and offering membership with a donation in any amount.” Read the post at the Slow Food USA [...]
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Retailers with Local Meat

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 5, 2009
For those of you who don’t want to buy a side of beef or can’t make it to the farmers’ market (or, as now, the market isn’t open), a few retailers have begun carrying locally-raised meat. You can find Hastings Farm grass-fed beef and lamb at Virginia’s Health Foods in Mobile and Ever’man Natural Foods [...]
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Lunch and Reusable Containers

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 4, 2009
With fall (or in our case, late summer!) comes the beginning of school, and for moms everywhere that means the beginning of another year of packed lunches. Even though I’ve only been doing it a year, it’s always an effort to find creative, healthy combinations of food that a preschooler will actually eat. Since my [...]
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RIP Hitachi RD-4052

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 3, 2009
Our venerable rice cooker, a hard-working appliance nearly 40 years old, finally had to be retired. The wiring in the plug/connection to the base had gotten faulty. I remember when my dad brought it home from a trip to Louisiana, where one of his clients had given it to him as a gift. He was [...]
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