local food

"Cooked" by Michael Pollan

Joe Donahue — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Michael Pollan’s new book, Cooked, follows the twists and turns of Pollan’s education in the kitchen. Organizing his journey around the four classical elements —fire, water, air, and earth—Pollan apprentices himself to a series of culinary experts to discover how these elements can transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink.

"Poor Man's Feast" by Elissa Altman

Joe Donahue — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:10:00 +0000

Elissa Altman is a James Beard Award-winning writer whose new book marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. In fact, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical.

But love does strange things to people, and when Elissa met Susan — a small-town Connecticut Yankee with a devotion to simple living — it would change Elissa's relationship with food, and the people who taught her about it, forever. Her new book, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, is a universal tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity, and shows us how all our stories are inextricably bound up with what, and how, we feed ourselves and those we love.

Berkshire Grown's March Maple Dinner

Joe Donahue — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Berkshire Grown supports and promotes local agriculture as a vital part of the Berkshire community, economy and landscape.

They will feature a special slate of chefs for their March Maple Dinner on March 18 at Cranwell Resort in Lenox to celebrate the first harvest of the season. The dinner will benefit Berkshire Grown and Share the Bounty, which buys shares in local farms for food pantries.

Fine Cooking in Season: Your Guide to Choosing and Preparing the Season's Best

Katie Britton — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:12:00 +0000

From Fine Cooking Magazine comes the cookbook, Fine Cooking in Season: Your Guide to Choosing and Preparing the Season's Best.

The First Season screening at The Sharon Springs Harvest Festival

Sarah LaDuke — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:45:00 +0000

The Sharon Springs Harvest Festival takes place this Saturday and Sunday in Sharon Springs, New York. The annual event, run by Beekman 1802, celebrates the magic of small town America with a Harvest Hop, a Harvest Feast, a Farmer’s Market and more!

Sharon Astyk Making Home

Joe Donahue — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0000

Other books tell us how to live the good life—Making Home is about improving life with the real people around us and the resources we already have. While encouraging us to be more resilient in the face of hard times, author Sharon Astyk also points out the beauty, grace, and elegance that result, because getting the most out of everything we use is a way of transforming our lives into something much more fulfilling.

Berkshire Grown - Share the Bounty

Ray Graf — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:35:59 +0000

Barbara Zheutlin, Berkshire Grown Executive Director, and Andrew Morehouse, Executive Director of The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, join Ray in Studio A to talk about Berkshire Grown's Share the Bounty project and their 10th anniversary event - a lecture by the Nature Conservancy’s Frank Lowenstein titled “Climate Change and Local Agriculture,” followed by a party in honor of local farmers on Saturday, Jul

Berkshire Grown: Farmed + Foraged

Sarah LaDuke — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:50:57 +0000

We head to the kitchen of The Old Inn on the Green in New Marlborough, MA to learn from Peter Platt how his establishment is using locally found and grown food in their menu. They participate in Berkshire Grown’s Farmed + Foraged program and events.

New Index Ranks Vermont Tops in Locally Grown Food

Tristan O'Neill — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:02:29 +0000

A new index ranks Vermont No. 1 in its commitment to raising and eating locally grown food.

The ranking is based on the number of farmers markets and community supported agriculture programs per state resident. In CSAs, customers pay a lump sum up front and receive weekly deliveries of produce during harvest seasons.

According to the Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, Vermont has 99 farmers markets and 164 CSAs for fewer than 622,000 people.

The other top states on the list are Iowa, Montana, Maine and Hawaii.