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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Meals on Wheels After a mass bike ride across Iowa, a slow-food chef picks up the pace	Kurt Michael Friese	25 Jul 2008	Chef's Diary
Do the ride thing. Photo: David Wade Every year for the last 36, Iowa plays host to a unique event. At the beginning of the last full week of July, more than 15,000 people dip the rear tires of their bicycles in the Missouri River -- and seven days and about 450 miles later, they dunk their front tires in the Mississippi. That ceremonial immersion draws to a close a ride that ...
Topics: bikes, Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Just Like Granny Used to Make Simple cooking can produce delicious results -- like old-fashioned Austrian pancakes	Kurt Michael Friese	10 Jul 2008	Chef's Diary
Get cooking, sonny. Too many people in this country have been sold a bill of goods. They've been tricked, flim-flammed, conned, and hustled. They've been bamboozled into believing that food comes wrapped in plastic from the freezer at the nearest Walmart. They've learned to believe that cooking is a chore -- like laundry or washing windows -- to be ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Flood, Sweat, and a Good Trout Mousse Iowa's chefs and their farmer-suppliers get busy recovering from disaster	Kurt Michael Friese	26 Jun 2008	Chef's Diary
Roads and restaurants may be closed, but Iowa is getting back on its feet. Photo: Kurt Michael Friese The weather here in Iowa City has been gorgeous for more than a week. Is Mother Nature trying to make amends? While she smiles on us, she's still causing trouble for our friends to the south. The horrendous flooding continues, breeching nearly every l ...
Topics: agriculture, Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes, severe weather (all these topics)

Together at the Table Toward a civil, inclusive national conversation on food -- over a savory tart	Kurt Michael Friese	29 May 2008	Chef's Diary
As the date for Slow Food Nation -- the big sustainable-food conference scheduled in San Francisco this coming August -- draws near, I've been thinking about attitudes toward food in the erstwhile Fast Food Nation. Like a big pot of water that's been on high heat seemingly forever, our national conversation on food seems to be reaching a boil at long last. Slow F ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Where the Wild Things Grow Got weeds? Reach for the food processor, not the lawnmower	Kurt Michael Friese	15 May 2008	Chef's Diary
Around this time of year, all the foodies in my neck of the woods are, well, in the woods. Spring and fall are the best wild food foraging times around here, and as if ol' Mother Nature knew our food prices were going through the roof and transportation costs skyrocketing, she's brought us a cornucopia of wild edibles out there, free for the taking. Nettles, how sweet thy stin ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, gardening, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Spinach Doctor CSAs can transform Iowa's farm economy -- and take its sandwiches to the next level	Kurt Michael Friese	01 May 2008	Chef's Diary
Getting fresh. Here in Iowa, the farmers markets are just emerging from hibernation, and with them the CSAs. Community-supported agriculture is not a new idea, but it certainly has been gaining ground over the past few years as ideas such as "local" and "sustainable" migrate from the fringes to the center. For the uninitiated, CSAs operate a ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Earth Daze in Kitchen An earthy recipe for treading lightly on earth and pocketbook alike	Kurt Michael Friese	17 Apr 2008	Chef's Diary
As Earth Day approaches this year, it seems that people are thinking more about food's price than its ecological footprint. A simple trip to the grocery store tells the same story we've been hearing on the news: it's getting more and more expensive to feed ourselves. The morel of the story. I've been thinking a lot about food prices, too. After holding off for almost a yea ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Spears of Spring The Age of Asparagus dawned in Roman times, but the time to eat it is now	Kurt Michael Friese	03 Apr 2008	Chef's Diary
Asparagus may be associated with spring, but there's nothing new about it. It's been gracing tables -- to the joy of some diners and the horror of others -- for at least two thousand years. In the earliest known cookbook, De Re Culinaria (circa A.D. 100), proto-foodie Marcus Apicius recommends pounding asparagus tips with black pepper, lovage, coriander, savory, onion, wi ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, green living, oceans, recipes (all these topics)

Garden of Eatin' Warm up over a bowl of chili -- while planning your spring vegetable patch	Kurt Michael Friese	20 Mar 2008	Chef's Diary
Editor's note: Welcome to the first installment of Chef's Diary, a new biweekly recipe column by Iowa-based chef Kurt Michael Friese. Follow the seasons with a professional chef -- and get tips for cooking at home. Seeds of our content. Photo: run dorkas run As the last of last fall's bounty comes out of the larder at my Iowa City restaurant, my wife Kim has been poring ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, gardening, green living, local food, recipes (all these topics)

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