Reviving Traditional Foods
Deeply passionate about local foods and sustainable agriculture, my husband and I put real blood, real sweat and real tears into our farmers market: waking up at the crack of dawn, putting in 14-hour days, conducting food preservation demonstrations, driving across Colorado to connect with small-time, sustainable growers and working tirelessly with local and state [...]
In the heart of ski country, spring replaces late winter slowly–so slowly that when most gardeners around the country are celebrating the season with the first shoots of asparagus or tender salad turnips or sweet peas, we’re still struggling under several feet of hard-pack, glacial mounds of snow. It is a barren and desolate [...]
Like last week, we were incredibly busy this week with barely enough time to think let alone cook, but that didn’t keep us from eating local. In addition to using local ingredients in every meal we cooked this week, we enjoyed a spectacular meal at the market from our concessionaire who–in the spirit of the [...]
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Jenny McGruther is a wife, mother and cooking instructor specializing in real and traditional foods. Her work has been featured on CNN, the Globe & Mail, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and WebMD. Click here to learn more.
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