Posts under ‘Eat Local Challenge’

I have friends all over the place, most of whom I’ve met the old-fashioned way: in person, through some job or school or work or networking connection. But oh, how the Internet has enriched my life and brought me in touch with people who, otherwise, I might never have met.
Yeah, I’m pretty much going to [...]

“There’s a restaurant downtown I think you’d like,” said my friend Amy when I visited her in Madison, Wis. last week.
Oh my friends, how they know me. Amy was, of course, totally right, and that is how we ended up at Harvest, a small, warm space on the square that features the state capitol, for [...]

Over the weekend, I went in a giant grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin with my friends in search of some local cheese curds. We found what we were looking for, but since it has been so long since I regularly shopped at that kind of store, the aisles and aisles of brightly-colored boxes of processed [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time during the past few years educating myself on the food I eat, and have worked hard to make ever-better, ever-wiser choices. I’m by no means vegetarian, but I eat a lot less meat than I used to. I try to shop for locally-produced and -grown goods…most of the time. [...]

The Eat Local Challenge has come to an end, but I don’t expect my eating habits to change much in the wake of it.
I will return to a few things I missed over the course of the month. Parmaggiano Reggiano cheese, for one thing. Wine from other regions of the world. The myriad Asian food [...]

This is the story of a friend named Sam, and how she inspired me to try something new. See, back in September, Sam pulled off an all-out (and ultimately v. successful) blitz of fundraising for Race for the Cure, setting herself what sounded like an impossible goal and then going after it with every resource [...]

I’m a huge fan of the Good Food podcast on KCRW, and have been listening to it longer than I’ve been blogging. It was one of the podcasts that kept me company on the ride back and forth between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, and while my commute is much shorter here in California, I [...]

One of my fairly new coworkers came into my office not that long ago and said, “There isn’t much of a lunch culture here, I notice.”
“You’re right,” I said. “I guess most of us do just eat at our desk.”
I rarely have time for a leisurely lunch out of the office. I often bring something [...]

Since I am a girl who takes being called a “potato eater” as a compliment, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I love gnocchi. I mean, really. Does it get any better than pillowy potato dumplings swathed in sauce?
Rarely, my friends. The answer is, rarely.
But in all my life, I can only [...]

The Saturday before the Eat Local Challenge began, I made my way down to the Grand Lake Farmer’s Market for the first time since I moved to Oakland.
This is absolutely ridiculous, because I’ve been hearing about how fabulous this market is since before I moved here. It’s simultaneously not ridiculous, because I’ve certainly managed to [...]