Reviving Traditional Foods
I like my desserts simple. So simple that it almost pains me to share them – as though you might read this post and think to yourself, “Apricots, butter, cinnamon and raspberries? Really? That’s all? Man, I could have figured that out!” What can I say, I like simple food. The summer season is in [...]
What do soy milk, Honey Bunches of Oats, grape juice and Wonder bread have in common? They’re all listed among the Women Infants Children (WIC) Program’s allowable foods list. WIC, a federal program whose mission is, “To safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutrition risk [...]
We all know about the classic CSA: a box of fresh vegetables and fruits from a local farm delivered once a week to your home. Paying in advance of the season in most cases or even on a monthly or weekly basis, a CSA participant is then entitled to a portion or [...]
Farmers Market season is upon us with many markets already open while others, like ours, must wait until late June or July before farmers’ fields are productive. Together, my husband and I run our local farmers market – coordinating with the town, recruiting vendors, connecting with customers and devising eccentric activities that keep the [...]
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 [...]
The first thing you might notice at our farmers market–besides the allure of new-to-you free goodies from the Free Tent–is the flowers. Vibrant with yellows, purples, reds and pinks they mark the entrance to the market and it’s difficult to resist the call of a $10 bouquet of lovely, organically grown, local flowers. There’s [...]
It’s been a while–a long while–since I blogged at Nourished Kitchen. It seems that the trappings of life have caught up with me and I’ve barely had time to breathe, let alone sit down and write, but it’s off-season now and the ski area is closed and things are slowly, slowly falling into a [...]
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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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