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Category: Food
La Gloria Bodega, food trucks in Whatcom County
Just a week or so ago, Petra Sarabia, guest lectured in my Business and Sustainability class at Western Washington University, offering delicious food and telling a deeply personal story of a successful Latina business in Whatcom County. The parsley is fresh, as is all the food, much of which is vegan. For Petra, reducing food…
Missoula Montana and Ramen Eggs
A short trip to Missoula brought unexpected delights—walks and new foods (for me). Best, of course, was the delicious chili and salads, cornbread prepared by Drewsy. Next best was intricate Ramen.
An October conference of evolving science and delicious foods
Early October took me to the annual conference of the Natural Sciences section of the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland—and delicious food. A stop in the UK along the way yielded a traditional roast Sunday dinner (here, with chicken), My destination, though was Dornach, and the Goetheanum campus—a research and performing site for music, dance (eurythmy),…
A cheesy fall field trip
Fall is the perfect time for visiting local creameries‘ cheeses—especially when it’s an auction item, and we have quite a few auctions on Shaw Island! Here are the “winners” for this year’s field trip: Our adventures took us to Larry and Debbie Stap’s Twinbrook Creamery and also to LIndsay Slevin’s Twin Sisters Creamery. Lindsay and…
Sustainable Crab
As I write in FoodWISE, sustainable fish, as we saw in Part 1, is challenging. With some exceptions (e.g., Pacific salmon, freshwater fish elsewhere), overfishing (think some species of tuna, or Chilean sea bass), and pollution and toxicity (think farmed shellfish from some countries) can be serious problems. Harvesting crab in the San Juans From…
A bumper crop of dilly beans
I’ve talked about dilly beans in previous posts. They’re one of my favorite vegetables, especially when they’re freshly grown and prepared just-barely-ripe. They’re also one of my favorite pot luck dishes for Bunko with my good friends Nora and Diane and family. The three-page recipe for my dilly beans is on pp. 173-175 of FoodWISE….
Really Local
Returning from teaching in Italy is always a pleasure—we’re bursting with local here in the Pacific Northwest, as I write about in FoodWISE. Washington is one of the states with the highest percentages of direct food sales in the U.S. We’re particularly suited to grow berries, and Barbie’s Berries provides a bounty of the soft,…
Shaw Fest and Harvests
This small gathering of music afficianados and friends has become a beloved summer event. Family Insta accounts may reveal some of it, but a favorite of mine is the food we harvest about then. I mention blueberries in another post Basil is easy to harvest and process, just rinse and steam (very quickly), then blanch…
Sustainable fish
With everything I’ve written about factory farming and fisheries, you might think I’d caution against eating fish. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we do enjoy a relative abundance of some species of marine fish—some so fresh we can eat it as sushi. As I talk about in FoodWISE, sustainable fishing is a big issue for…