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TV’s “Travel Channel” Shows The Way To Local Foods … Recipes Included Here

I’m here to say this morning that Andrew Zimmern, the crazy, will eat anything guy from the TV program Bizarre Foods is a unsung hero of Local Food. And while we’re at it…Anthony Bourdain the tough talking NY guy from TV Travel Channel’s “No Reservations” likewise encourages Local Food…even if the locality is Corsica or [...]

A New Season … Maybe Some Local Food Network Changes

As you can see from our little note above, the Local Food Network of greater Newburyport is planning some changes. When we ran our on line poll and sought others opinions about the LFN we learned some interesting and valuable tidbits. So we’re going to be responding to those suggestions .
We heard from online readers [...]

Himmel und Erde … Octoberfest German Mashed Potatoes

Himmel- Heaven and Erde-Earth reference the key ingredients in German style mashed potatoes. Apples from a local orchards’s tree and potato from the earth of local farms. Add honey, bacon bits, a bit of onion, cream, mash and you are in Octobertfest outgrowing your lederhosen. Here are two recipes for Himmel and Erde. And one more from the  “Recipe [...]

Gourmet Magazine To Close … Did Our Local Food Network Blog Contribute to Its Demise?

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, [...]

Tomato Recipes Galore … From Tomatofest.Com

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 [...]

Carry Out Cafe features Jill Regensburg’s Greens Bisque

This week the Carry Out Cafe is featuring one of Jill Regensburg’s “farm to table recipes.”  Drop by for this Farmer’s Market Special.  Ingredients were purchased at Long Hill Farm and carefully prepared by Jill.
A description of all the daily specials can be found at Carry Out Cafe.com
Check under our Cookin’ Local category to [...]

Local Foodies

Some of the best things in life are free!
Join in with other local foodies…. your neighbors and friends….as we promote more and better local food choices. Sign up for our newsletter here on this page to receive information about cooking classes, recipes, where to buy locally grown, restaurants with local food selections, and more. If [...]

Squash Blossoms Stuffed With Ricotta….Or Maybe In A Frittata?

Is it just us at LFN, but doesn’t everyone want some Squash Blossoms stuffed with ricotta, dipped in egg and saute’d? Or maybe a Squash Blossom Frittata? Or is it just a day in sunny Italy daydream? Or maybe some California Dreamin’.
NPR has a program here you can listen to and two phrases stuck in my mind. “Like ravioli without the dough” and [...]

Slow Food……………Nature takes her time so why eat something picked 3 weeks ago in 30 seconds?

Slow Food is the international movement towards eating healthier, more nutritious, local food with family and friends. It seeks to preserve local varieties of vegetables and other food products and the cuisine that they enable. They refer to this approcah as “the Arc of taste”. Buy local food