Posts Tagged "Locally Sourced"

Planning a New Year’s Eve Menu

Posted by on Jan 1, 2012 in Consulting, Food, Menu Development | 0 comments

I write and develop a lot of menus over the course of a year. From small little snacks to elaborate menus for a fundraising gala based on a specific theme.  After all these years some of the questions I ask  myself when thinking about what to serve are instinctive and come very natural to me. I want to stop for a minute and take some time to write down the process I go through when putting together a menu. In this case it was putting together a menu for new year’s eve for my family and best friends.  I break down the menu writing process into several steps: Inspiration or...

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Organic farming may be outgrowing its ideals

Posted by on Dec 31, 2011 in Consulting, Food | 0 comments

I started my working career on a organic farm at the age of 11. I undertsand how hard it is to maintain a stocked shelf of ripe and ready produce even during the growing season. I worked on a small 1 acre farm that was completley organic for its time in the mid 70′s. Natural fertilzers made from animal manure and cut nettles were part of our watering supply once a week to help restore the soil. Hand harvesting and pest control by walking the fields with a small can where we would deposit the the bugs we picked of the leaves. However we only sold what we where able to pick that day. If...

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What’s Your Favorite Local Ingredient?

Posted by on Jul 19, 2010 in Food | 0 comments

If is grown, baked, raised, fermented, hand made or brewed in your "backyard" and you use it in your operation we want to know.

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