FoodWISE cooking today is about roasting light and fluffy potatoes! From Easy Oven Roasted Potatoes. It’s at: https://www.spendwithpennies.com/simple-herb-oven-roasted-potatoes/ I’ll share the trick right now, which is really a step—soak the potatoes (cut into cubes) in water! Basically, all you do is cut the potatoes into 1-inch cubes, and soak in water to remove some of…
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Eat This—Cooking my favorite pea recipe
In this vlog, I talk about the best peas to eat fresh, and what to cook—and what to save for planting. I include a favorite recipe! Summer Bounty: Potato and Shrimp Salad with Peas Eat fresh peas! In this vlog, I talk about the best peas to eat fresh, and what to cook—and what to…
COVID on USA campuses and in India news reports
Reporting from The New York Times gives us a good look as to what’s happening on college campuses, and then the current crisis in India. What has caused the crisis? Poor government policies? Poor preparedness? New variants? Lagging vaccination rates? The New York Times reports, all important information, from a FoodWISE perspective: COVID…
FoodWISE: Whose science should we believe?
Does bad research win? See this report on major studies that find “interesting” science with surprising conclusions is often what gets reported, even when it is not replicable. Ever watchful! The “I” in WISE tells us that being informed is important in making food choices! For more, see gigiberardi.com #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy…
FoodWISE Making the best food choices
FoodWISE tells the story of celebrating the “gray” in our lives—the best food choices may not always be the most obvious. Thank you Chanticleer Book Awards for awarding semi-finalist status to FoodWISE! See gigimberardi@wwu.edu #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy #instagood #love #foodblogger #foodlover #delicious #follow #like #healthyfood #homemade #foodWISE #tasty #healthy #instagram #eat #corona…
Beating the pandemic: FoodWISE monks
Today, we see a lot of backsliding with COVID precautions and infection rates. Our food supply is vulnerable. As I wrote in FoodWISE, our food system is like an interconnected web, “All the farmers, millers, butchers, bakers, grocery clerks, and cooks are the people who inhabit the web—making it work, and depending on it for…
A big thank you to Deran Browne of Mangochowproductions for FoodWISE, the film (in production)
I am happy to announce that FoodWISE, the film is in production! Deran Browne of mangochowproductions.com was selected to produce the film. Deran Browne is the manager of the Digital Media Center at Western Washington University and over the past months has been interviewing food information experts, consumers, and teachers to produce a film about…
Can the “Impossible Burger” be a homemade, FoodWISE one?
Gigi reads a few paragraphs from a New Yorker article, “Value Meal” on Impossible Foods (September 30, 2019). Is the impossible burger the future of food? Hardly. We have so many options that are more WISE—whole, informed, sustainable, and full of experience. See here, for a dozen recipe ideas: thespruceeats. For more, including recipes and…
House gardening in the spring! Plant sunflower seeds for microgreens
It’s spring! Too early to get out into the garden for most, but you can still reap a mighty harvest of microgreens by planting a few sunflower seeds in a pot! Harvest the delicious sprouts for a real taste of spring! For more, see: gigiberardi.com #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy #instagood #love #foodblogger #foodlover…