Kurt Michael Friese’s Posts

• Stirring the pot

  Nationwide "eat-ins" show way to a revived National School Lunch Program 1

  Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago

  Across the nation on Labor Day, more than 20,000 people turned up at picnics to rally support for healthy school lunches.

• Shell game

  UPDATED: The cruelty of industrial egg-riculture -- plus a tasty recipe for your local pastured eggs 10

  Posted 2 months, 1 week ago

  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs than any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs--and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.

• Fork in the road

  Let's (re)do school lunch 18

  Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago

  It's time to get active in the campaign to improve school lunches, says Chef Kurt Michael Friese.

• Andalucia in a bowl

  From southern Spain, the king of summer soups 2

  Posted 3 months ago

  When high summer comes, it's time to turn off the oven and reach for the blender. Kurt Michael Friese delivers the goods on gazpacho, a recipe imported from Spain but best made with your local summer bounty.

• Catch my drift?

  With a gust of wind, an Iowa crop duster can squash an organic farm 18

  Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago

  Usually, small-scale organic farmers avoid interacting with GMO seed giant Monsanto simply by avoiding its seeds. But one such grower in Iowa got a nasty blast of Monsanto's power anyway, literally from the sky.

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  Hope folks will look to fill the void left by Gourmet's demise with the far less elitist, far less bi-coastal, far MORE local "Edible" Magazines. Locally owned and produced in 50+ communities across the US & Canada: http://www.ediblecommunities.com Peace, kmfOn What Gourmet's critics missed posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 5 Responses

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  Splashy - While it's possible that the "organic" eggs you buy in the grocery are humanely treated, it is unlikely.  A great resource for finding a farmer near you (not just for eggs but for anything farmers grow) is Local Harvest.

  
  Dr X - I'm afraid you'll need to ask a farmer about that mown forage question.  Perhaps the link above would be useful for finding that answer as well.

  On UPDATED: The cruelty of industrial egg-riculture -- plus a tasty recipe for your local pastured eggs posted 2 months ago 10 Responses

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  Yes we do.  Abot 60% of our menu is vegetarian, and about a third of that is vegan.

  On UPDATED: The cruelty of industrial egg-riculture -- plus a tasty recipe for your local pastured eggs posted 2 months ago 10 Responses

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  'Fraid I can't help toy on who first coined it, but it's a blanket term that refers to companies like Monsanto, Tyson and ADM, to large corporate-owned farms, to the family farms that are trapped in corporate contracts, CAFOs broadly, and to the lobbists associate with all the above.

  
  That help?

  On Top USDA official gets serious about local/regional food systems posted 2 months, 1 week ago 8 Responses

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  Sadly we need a lot more than $1B.  Merely for the increase that the Slow Food Time for Lunch program is calling for, $1 per meal, we're talking about $5.4B/yr.  And that will only be of help if the money is earmarked specifically for purchase of local and sustainably-raised fresh ingredients, and if we go ahead with the Food Corps program described in the Time for Lunch platform.

  
  That's why everyone's support is need on September 7th, and why we need all the signatures we can get on the petition.

  On Top USDA official gets serious about local/regional food systems posted 2 months, 1 week ago 8 Responses