How should I eat? (Not too much)
—Michael Pollan
If it is so difficult to learn to cook, how did all those early pioneer women manage to cross the country in rugged covered wagons and feed troops of people from one big pot hung over an open fire?
—Marion Cunningham, from Learning to Cook
Treat treats as treats.
—Michael Pollan
No matter how you slice it through, grain-fed meat production systems are a drain on the global food supply.
—Jonathan A. Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment, U of MN
Stories

From the Sea Cloud to the Cloud Nine of Dining

Guest blogger Margo Davis returns with a story about her recent trip to one of the best places to eat in the world, San Sebastian, Spain. Enjoy her story of Michelin three-star restaurants and cultural icons!

Making Fresh Mozzarella

My good friend, Lisa Farrell, and I spent a lazy Sunday afternoon making mozzarella cheese in my kitchen, after having attended a workshop at City Market.

Remarkable Recipes, Remarkable Women

Enjoy this special biscuit recipe by Jean Zimmerman, in honor of Yvonne Brill, a rocket scientist awarded with the National Medal of Technology, whose NY Times obituary recognized her first off for her delicious beef stroganoff.

Subscribe to my Blog by March 31 to Benefit the VT Foodbank!

Subscribe now! For each new subscription to my blog from now through March 31, In the Kitchen with Bronwyn will donate $2 to the Vermont Foodbank.

An Adventure in Cooking, Food & Healthy Living…

My husband, Dan, and I both like to cook, so when we saw a course offered by Bronwyn Dunne through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Vermont, we jumped at the chance to participate in Cooking with the Masters.

A Spoonful of Fresh Maple Yogurt—Farmers to You Delivers!

By Laurie Caswell Burke. For months I had been promising my friend Greg that I would join him on one of his weekly trips to Boston, where his newly spawned company, Farmers to You, delivers a multitude of fresh Vermont products to eleven communities. Today I arrived at the Red Hen Bakery just as my friend Greg Georgaklis was loading armfuls of fresh loaves of bread into his truck.

Bronwyn Featured in Best of Burlington

When Best of Burlington, our monthly life and culture magazine, asked me to be the food personality for the holiday issue, I couldn’t say “no.” As you will read in the article, “In the Kitchen with Bronwyn: Tips for Holiday Entertaining,” my featured recipes are a combination of the old and the new.

A Last Feast Before A Perfect Storm

By Margo Davis
T’was the hours before Sandy and all through the evening, no drink kept me steady, not even a toddy. Meanwhile, family in NY was holding a feast in the midst of the superstorm. I have tried to imagine this storm party, living in the moment, making merry and preparing the pheasants. Did they pluck and gut the birds? Also see a video on “Preparing a Pheasant for the Pot” and 3 pheasant recipes.

SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG BY DECEMBER 25 TO BENEFIT THE VERMONT FOODBANK!

Subscribe now! For each new subscription to my blog from now through December 25, In the Kitchen with Bronwyn will donate $2 to the Vermont Foodbank.

Radio Flyer… but Melons or Swiss Chard?

By Margo Davis
My husband Tony and I go every Saturday and Sunday to two Palo Alto CA farmers’ markets. Entering the market engages all senses at every level and inspires endless memories à la Marcel Proust, madeleine cookies, and Radio Flyer red wagons.

The Modern ‘fArms’ Race – Pesticides & GMOs on HuffPost Live

Interested in learning more about GMOs? Click here to listen to a discussion about this issue, one that is affecting farming in this country today and will continue to affect the state of our food system well into the future.

Poster Girl for Local Food!

I was happy to be the “poster girl” for farm fresh produce in this article, Embracing Local Food, by Shelburne News.

Vote for the Dinner Party by Michael Pollan, NY Times, Oct 10, 2012

Read and comment on Michael Pollan’s Oct 10 New York Times commentary on what makes a food movement: Vote for the Dinner Party: Is this the year that the food movement finally enters politics?

My Mother-in-law’s Favorite Meal: BLTs

By Dawn Philibert
The beginning of August brings the ripening of wonderful fresh tomatoes, and, for me, warm memories of my mother-in-law’s favorite meal: BLTs.

2012 Marfa Dialogues: Politics & Culture of Climate & Sustainability

The 2012 Marfa Dialogues: Politics & Culture of Climate & Sustainability in Marfa Texas featured Michael Pollen and Hamilton Fish. See the details.
See Bronwyn Jones Dunne in Julia Child’s 100th Birthday Program in VT Public Television’s Video Segment

Bronwyn Jones and VPT’s Brennan Neil recount the story of Julia Child’s search for the Jones home in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in the 1980’s.

This Little Miss Piggy Went to Market in California…..Saturday and Sunday!!!

By Margot Davis
You know you have discovered Paradise when you have not one but TWO, abundant farmers’ markets in one town each weekend.

Bronwyn Dunne Helps VT Public Television Honor Julia Child’s 100th Birthday

Julia Child changed the way Americans cook, eat and think about food. Vermont Public Television will honor the grand dame of cooking, television’s first superstar cook, on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 which would have been Child’s 100th birthday. VPT will broadcast a live, three-hour cooking special featuring dishes that showcase locally grown food as well […]

Imagine Who Is Coming to Dinner

by Margo Davis
Imagine cooking for the food maven of all times, Judith Jones….

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.

Off to “La Ville de Lumiere”

Paris is part of family lore. My father and my stepmother met there, courted there and spent their first years of marriage there. When I travel to Paris, I think how different my life would be if Evan and Judith hadn’t fallen in love with each other in Paris.
small bites

Edible Green Mountains Cooks Issue Feature

Bronwyn Jones Dunne Selected by IACP as Featured Blogger
featured events
Food events that have caught my eye.

Burlington Farmer's Market | Saturdays 8:30a-2p

School of the New American Farmstead - Press Release

ArtsRiot | TRUCK STOP May 17 - Aug 30
a La Carte Videos
Bronwyn Dunne and Judith Jones Prepare Two Potato Salads at Bryn Teg. See the recipes
Gateau de Crepes- In Molly’s Kitchen.
See recipe from the Smitten Kitchen
Blog Archives
- The Intervale – An Unexpected Adventure - Jun 2020
- Pandemic Silver Lining - Jun 2020
- Digging the Dirt for a More Sustainable Future - May 2020
- Shop Local! - May 2020
- Quarantine Cuisine – Part II - Apr 2020
- #QuarantineCuisine - Apr 2020
- Armchair Traveling – Part II - Mar 2020
- ARMCHAIR TRAVELING - Mar 2020
- Everybody Loves Cheese - Feb 2020
- Love food? Love Farmers! - Dec 2019
- Our Treasured Cookbooks - Nov 2019
- Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes - Oct 2019
- Three New Must-Haves For Your Spice Cabinet - Jul 2019
- dEELicious Flavors for your Summer Grill - Jun 2019
- Go Bananas at Burlington Farmer’s Market - May 2019
- Five Reasons to Pursue Continuing Education - May 2019
- Mind Your Macros – there’s an app for that - Apr 2019
- A Love Affair with Fermented Fare - Mar 2019
- Onion Soup for the Soul - Mar 2019
- Dinners with Bronwyn - Feb 2019
- Top Three Weekend Activities - Jan 2019
- Muffins posing as cupcakes - Dec 2018
- ‘Tis the Season - Dec 2018
- Four Things I learned in Cooking Class - Oct 2018
- Gastronomy from Coast to Coast - Oct 2018
- Meghan Markle moves the conversation on diversity with a celebration of food - Sep 2018
- I Love Early Fall…From My Head…To-ma-toes - Sep 2018
- Some things you only need to do once - Sep 2018
- Meet My Flock - Aug 2018
- Summer Crowd Pleaser - Jul 2018
- Seven joys of urban farming - Jun 2018
- Wild and Untamed - Jun 2018
- 5 Mistakes of a First Time Gardener - May 2018
- How I Failed in Boston - Apr 2018
- Love your FOOD | Love your FARMer - Apr 2018
- Poor Poh-tay-toe… - Apr 2018
- Love Lives Here…in Burlington! - Mar 2018
- Flashy New South End City Market - Feb 2018
- The Hungry Bookworms - Feb 2018
- A Road Well-traveled - Jan 2018
- Baby…it’s cold outside - Jan 2018
- How to Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola: A Story of Holiday Blunders - Dec 2017
- Triple Dipple Pickles - Dec 2017
- COLD days, HOT coffee - Nov 2017
- A Deviation of Appreciation - Oct 2017
- Remembering Judith Jones, A Culinary Luminary – a film - Oct 2017
- The Rice Whisperer – a sequel - Oct 2017
- Love your food & Love your neighbor - Oct 2017
- TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Each new subscriber in October = $2 donation to Vermont Foodbank - Oct 2017
- Judith Jones New York Memorial – October 4th - Sep 2017
- Sum sum summertime = Champlain Valley Fair - Sep 2017
- Soooo Many Momos - Sep 2017
- Judith Jones Memorial – August 26th, 2017 - Aug 2017
- In Loving Memory of Judith Jones: March 10, 1924 – August 2, 2017 - Aug 2017
- The Left Coast - Jul 2017
- The Duck Whisperer - Jul 2017
- Right in My Backyard: Trillium Hill Farm Part II - Jun 2017
- Right in My Backyard: Trillium Hill Farm - Jun 2017
- Where Food Comes From - Jun 2017
- A Day of Dining in New Orleans - May 2017
- Sautéed Fiddleheads in Butter with Lemon and Garlic - May 2017
- This is Not a Gardening Blog II - May 2017
- When Life Gives You Bruised Apples…Make Applesauce!!! - May 2017
- This is Not a Gardening Blog - Apr 2017
- New Guest Writer: Welcome Corrie to the Green Mountain State! - Apr 2017
- A Farewell To The Green Mountain State - Jul 2016
- Zabby & Elf’s Stone Soup, Part II - May 2016
- Zabby & Elf’s Stone Soup - Mar 2016
- Gratitude - Dec 2015
- Food Entrepreneurs Part V: Brio Coffeeworks - Nov 2015
- Food Entrepreneurs Part IV: Tomgirl Juice Co. - Oct 2015
- Food Entrepreneurs Series Part III: The Bakery At The Farmhouse Kitchen - Aug 2015
- Food Entrepreneurship in Vermont Part II: Bijou Fine Chocolates - Jul 2015
- Summer Events In Vermont - Jul 2015
- Is Localizing America’s Food System Possible? - Jun 2015
- Food Entrepreneurship in Vermont Part I: SharkBite Hummus - Jun 2015
- Nourish Vermont: Traditional Foods and Health Gathering - May 2015
- Late Sugaring In The Northeast Kingdom - May 2015
- Baking With Bayley Hazen Blue - Apr 2015
- Vermont Artisan Village - Mar 2015
- A Rare Book Indeed - Nov 2014
- It’s Time for an Organic Revolution! - Sep 2014
- Food for the Soul as well as the Body: Shojin Ryori - Aug 2014
- The Venerable Shojin Ryori Cuisine of Japan by Hiroko Shimbo - Aug 2014
- Better than Summer Camp: Summer Programs in Cheese Making, Fermentation, Charcuterie, Draft Horse Farming & Food Writing at Sterling College - May 2014
- We Did It! GMO Labeling Passed in Both the Vermont House & Senate - Apr 2014
- A Very Important Birthday: Judith Jones Celebrates Her 90th Birthday! - Mar 2014
- A Book Is On Its Way! As my interest in local farming has grown, I find myself writing a book… - Jan 2014
- After the Barn Fire Fundraiser Dinner to Benefit Maple Wind Farm – Tues, Jan 28 at Hinesburgh Public House - Jan 2014
- Sign Up for Blog Updates from In the Kitchen with Bronwyn & We’ll Donate $2 to the VT Foodbank for each subscription through Dec 31! - Nov 2013
- A Recipe for the Holidays from Shelburne Farms - Nov 2013
- When the Farm is a School: Shelburne Farms - Nov 2013
- Bronwyn Jones Dunne Selected by IACP as Featured Blogger - Nov 2013
- Fairfield Farm at The Hotchkiss School: Where Academics & Agriculture Meet - Oct 2013
- Farm to School – Not Just a Slogan - Oct 2013
- The Making of the “Zetterburger”: A True Tale of Creativity in the Kitchen - Aug 2013
- The “Zetterburger” Recipe - Aug 2013
- From the Sea Cloud to the Cloud Nine of Dining - Aug 2013
- Making Fresh Mozzarella - Jul 2013