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Happy Columbus Day. Funny how icons are raised and then smashed in our culture. Frankly, I’m happy that Europeans came to America and that all our families can enjoy the blessings of Fall in New England. We’re going with 5 grandkids today to do some apple picking at Applecrest in Hampton Falls – a convenient [...] Yes, I think it did in a small way. BS you say! Well would it be less BS if our greater Newburyport Local Food Network blog along with tons of other web based food information, recipes, locavore content..including Gourmet Magazine’s own on line recipes cache. Made a difference. We hear every day that newspapers are dying, [...] “Culinary Tourism” is a trendy term amongst travel and tourism marketeers. For them its about learning what aspects of the local food culture attracts people to a given region or city and then promoting those attractions to a target set of travelers. Great Tomato Recipes [click here for all] Fried Green Tomatoes Tomato “Fest” Custard, Basil Jelly Tomato Tower “Zebra” Tomato Foam, Shaved Elephant Heart Plums, Rose Ice Cream & Tomato “Paper” Heirloom Tomato, Peach, and Plum Crisp with Basil Ice Cream Chilled Hot and Sour green Tomato Soup with Fresh Mint Yogurt Crema Lobster and Scallop Roulade Terrene With Heirloom Tomato Relish Heirloom Tomato and [...] LFN is grateful to the Newburyport City Council for receiving for their consideration our proposal for community garden spaces in the City neighborhoods. And thanks also to Elizabeth Marcus representing Transition Newburyport and Erin Stack director of the New Eden Community Gardens in Newbury. Both these ladies were eloquent in supporting the resilience, self reliance, and [...] We’ve blogged about oysters a bit lately and we’ve learned that this summer in Massachusetts, NOAA and the Nature Conservancy have partnered with Massachusetts Audubon to restore oysters bed off the Cape. Oysters beds are like the ‘reefs of the northeast’ in that their complicated , craggy structures make home for lots of diverse sea life, [...] We got this nice note from The Oyster Project, an organization that advocates and blogs for restoration of Oysters in Massachusetts. We used to have lots of oysters in local waters. Now that the Merrimack is much cleaner than in the 1900’s why not bring them back? Why not starting a program to clean up [...] The LFN appreciates the nice article by Katie Farrell Lovett that appears in the Newburyport Daily News today. Where and how food is grown makes a huge difference to our economy and our environment. What ever food we can grow locally is just that much less industrial polution created on mega farms and factories. Thanks to [...] I recalled the other day that a friend was talking to me a few months ago about German style rabbit stew. Of course rabbit is popular in other countries and is a very popular meat in Italy and France as well. So I wonder if any of the regional restaurants cook rabbit, or is it more [...] Apples are as American as pie. A democratic fruit that could grow in the cold winter climes of northern US states. Every farmer had a few trees, maybe some pears too. Now this guy…Johnny Appleseed ..grew up in Massachusetts and he knew how to grow apples.[ Those old Yankee's knew a lot of practical stuff]. [...] |
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