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I love quotes that add meaning to my life. Here are a few to live by:

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
—Michael Pollan

Feeding nine billion people in a truly sustainable way will be one of the greatest challenges our civilization has had to confront. It will require the imagination, determination and hard work of countless people from all over the world. There is no time to lose.
—Jonathan A. Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment, U of MN

The surest way to capture the flavors, colors, and textures of a culture is by using authentic products.
—Lidia Bastianich, from Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen

The most important habit you can develop is to taste as you are preparing something. Take a sample and taste it critically at different stages of the cooking, then correct the seasonings…
—Marion Cunningham, from Learning to Cook

Plant a vegetable garden if you have the space, a window box if you don’t.
—Michael Pollan

Three New Must-Haves For Your Spice Cabinet

Add spice to your life by including these three new flavors to your list of kitchen essentials. Inspired by Indian cooking, these ingredients are versatile and tasty – recipes included!

fresh blog posts

Join me In the Kitchen with Bronwyn, to continue the tradition of American kitchens. Through these blog posts we will do it with good food and good conversation. Let’s share our stories, inspire each other, and in the process, define together the food we love.

dEELicious Flavors for your Summer Grill

Summertime is for grilling: burgers, BBQ chicken, steak, and BBQ Freshwater Eel. Yep, you heard me, BBQ eel. Fresh-caught from the rivers that feed into Lake Champlain, eel can be a delicious and unique addition to your summertime grill menu.

Go Bananas at Burlington Farmer’s Market

Vote with your dollar! Buy organic and buy fair trade! Make conscientious food choices after learning the shocking history of bananas. Gluten free banana pancake recipe included.

Five Reasons to Pursue Continuing Education

Picture yourself learning the art of cheese making with renowned cheese maker, David Asher, or foraging for mushrooms in the beautiful rolling hills of the Northeast Kingdom, or learning the art of fermentation by the self-proclaimed “fermentation fetishist,” Sandor Katz. The School of the New American Farmstead (SNAF) at Sterling College offers you these experiences and more; visit […]

Mind Your Macros – there’s an app for that

We are living in a time where information, not all of it reliable, about anything in the world, is available in an instant. That same sentiment for immediate gratification permeates all aspects of our lives, including our kitchens. Convenient food, 5-minute abs, and the promised magic of a weight loss pill lure us away from […]

A Love Affair with Fermented Fare

Fermented carrots are easy, tangy, crispy, flavorful, colorful, and nutritious. What’s not to love!? Learn how to make your own with a variety of flavor suggestions.

featured recipes

Three New Must-Haves For Your Spice Cabinet

Add spice to your life by including these three new flavors to your list of kitchen essentials. Inspired by Indian cooking, these ingredients are versatile and tasty – recipes included!

Unagi – Preparation and Serving Suggestions

READ THE FULL BLOG POST HERE Unagi, aka BBQ Freshwater Eel, is a delicious combination of salty and sweet. The following will tell you how to make tasty unagi sauce, prepare homemade BBQ Eel, as well as serving suggestions. Unigi sauce can be used to grill your own eel, or as a condiment. It is […]

Gluten Free Banana Oatmeal Pancakes

Gluten Free Banana Oatmeal Pancakes Easily double, triple, or quadruple your recipe! The below ingredient list make 5. Enjoy these fresh or prepare ahead as food prep. I make a triple batch of the below on Sunday morning and enjoy a couple hot off the griddle, then save the rest in the fridge for up […]

Author`s Corner

I’m a writer, myself, and so love to read what other food writers have to say. I hope you enjoy reading about cookbooks and books about food as much as I do!

The Mindful Carnivore

I first met Tovar Cerulli, a former vegetarian, when he was in the process of publishing his new book about his decision to hunt game rather than eat commercial meat. I was struck by the emphasis Tovar places on mindfulness, and on the consideration we need to have about everything we eat.

Simple Asian Meals

Who isn’t cooking Asian these days? I just had friends over for a dinner of our grass-fed beef short ribs only to be reminded at the last minute that one of them was a vegetarian. Out came my wok, frozen shrimp from my freezer, some snow peas, green onions, red peppers and a variety of soy, oyster and fish sauces, along with some cooking sherry. I improvised and my hungry friend seemed satisfied with the end result, a quasi-Chinese shrimp stir-fry. But, if I’d had Nina Simond’s book, Simple Asian Meals, I might have cooked a dish that would have made my short-rib eating friends jealous.

Spoon Fed Stories

Some of us, home cooks—and I include myself in this group—love food so much we find our lives structured and embellished by our food experiences. Spoon Fed Stories are our stories, the stories of family and friends. Think of this as the kitchen table where we share the fun and the adventures we’ve had with food.