Hospitality for the Coming Age

This is a great time of year to eat eggs – the chickens start laying abundantly well before veggies and fruit are ready for harvest, and pantries and freezers may be getting bare.
So here’s a recipe that Chris and I enjoyed recently. It doesn’t require any fresh produce – I used frozen chilis and dry [...]

Adrienne commented today on an old post of mine about simple starts to eating locally. It reminded me what practice it truly takes to make up new dishes. But to cook from the fridge (so that food doesn’t go to waste) requires such creativity.
In college I always had standard Mexican food on hand (you know, [...]

3 December 2008
Tonight we gathered in Orchard Room at Earlham College for the toughest 100 mile radius potluck yet!
We ate very well, with turkey, newspaper-ripened tomatoes, homemade pasta, Japanese omelets, squash bread, chai and so much more!
I brought butternut squash-bean soup, with several alterations. I used anasazi beans instead of black beans, since I grew [...]

2. Amount of food grown for the meat industry
Does this even need to be mentioned? 1 pound of beef requires 8 pounds of grain (and tons of water, and leaves a bunch of pollution, but I’ll get to that later). Eating the grain would have saved everyone a lot of time, money and been gentler [...]

I get a lot of blank and bemused stares when I talk about food insecurity. Perhaps people are picturing a silo full of corn saying, “Please don’t make me go out there, I’m SO shy….” Now that WOULD be ridiculous. But the image of bountiful food not leaving storage is one accurate piece of food [...]

Eating locally may feel like an enormous challenge – and doing so 100% of the time really is! I hadn’t realized how well I was raised until I started doing my own grocery shopping and learned how expensive vegetables are at the grocery (especially salad in December, which is still my weakness). So if it’s [...]

“Whatever we may have liked about the era of cheap, oil-based food, it is drawing to a close. Even if we were willing to continue paying the environmental or public-health price, we’re not going to have the cheap energy (or the water) needed to keep the system going, much less expand production. But as is [...]

Eating seasonally is all about being resourceful. Churches are one great place to share the overwhelming amount of zucchini we get in August, or bumper crops of tomatoes in September.
And when a huge storm blows a bunch of peaches down, it’s time to share! Thanks to Esther for bringing these peaches to church.
They made the [...]

Can you imagine watching your baby die from drinking milk?! (which the American Dairy Association has convinced us is the ultimate wholesome and healthy beverage).
Not only has milk powder (used in infant formula) from Samlu Group been proven contaminated, but now liquid milk from Mengniu Dairy Group, Yili Industrial Group and Bright Dairy are known [...]

If you come to a 100 mile radius potluck, you’ll probably meet Aaron!

photo by Chris Hardie Aaron uses his bike for transportation, and can haul a cornhole set! Or a person, or a kayak, or…

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