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Farmers’ Panel: My Thoughts on Big vs. Small, Grain vs. Grass, and Where to Buy Your Food

May 6th, 2011 · 39 Comments · Food for Thought

It was a real treat to introduce you to a variety of farmers from across the country last week in the Kitchen Stewardship Farmers’ Panel. Personally, I learned a lot and continue to as the comments thread keeps running with some Q&A with certain farmers. The bottom line in my mind is that farming and [...]

Farmers’ Panel: My Local Favorites Talk Grassfed, Organic

April 27th, 2011 · 22 Comments · Food for Thought

Do you have a farmer? It gives me great joy to say “my farmer” and my joy multiplies as I find more and more wonderful places and wonderful people in Grand Rapids, MI to which to apply that label. I’ve got “my milk farm” and “my egg farm” and “my chicken farm” and “my beef [...]

Farmers’ Panel: Real Cattle Farmers Talk About their Livelihoods

April 26th, 2011 · 51 Comments · Food for Thought

I hardly feel worthy to introduce this panel of cattle farmers from across the nation. Seven farmers agreed to answer my in-depth questions all about how they farm, what they feed their animals, what happens when they get sick, environmental stewardship, and their hopes and concerns for the future of American farming. I copied all [...]

“Recipes” for Liver: How to Eat Beef Liver (Without Tasting It)

February 9th, 2011 · 50 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods, Upgraded Nutrition

If you’re not ready to look at raw liver, you might want to find something else to read today. Strap on your big girl pants today, folks, it’s time to get that package out of the freezer and feed it to your families! We’re going to talk about how to prepare and eat beef liver [...]

Why You Should Really, REALLY Get to Know Your Farmer (Even if Your Friends Already Have)

October 20th, 2010 · 105 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Our family has been buying grass-fed beef and chicken at a premium from Grassfield’s Farm in Coopersville, MI for about 18 months now. When we began, I didn’t ask a zillion questions, simply because I knew enough trusted real foodies who went there and I knew they had good quality, organic, grassfed products. Last Saturday [...]

Michael Pollan on “Can Grassfed Feed the World?”

June 11th, 2010 · 58 Comments · Food for Thought

Michael Pollan came on stage carrying bags of processed foods. He proceeded to pull out “edible food products” and do a little stand up comedy about all the corny ingredients in them, and how creative the food manufacturing industry is getting to keep coming up with new products that we then think we need to [...]

Recipe Connection: Grassfed Beef Burgundy

June 1st, 2010 · 17 Comments · Recipes

Is “grassfed” a sort of status symbol when stamped on a recipe? You betcha. You can make just about any recipe, especially one that cooks the meat for a long time and in liquid, with either grassfed or conventionally raised beef. It makes the recipe title sound fancy, though, doesn’t it? UPDATE: A commenter pointed [...]

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