Food Knowledge
From Edward Behr, this wonderful quarterly (40+ pages, no ads) covers food, wine, cheese, etc., focusing on artisanal sources and restaurants. It is both very well-edited and well-written. Be sure to order back issues and also the recently revised book, The Artful Eater, which covers the early years of this journal. Simply put, the Art of Eating is the best food/wine publication in the English language.
American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
This nonprofit organization is working to protect more than 150 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Included are asses, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.
Finding
Farmers' Markets
We think that Farmers' Markets
are your best source for the freshest, healthiest and most flavorful produce. Here's how to find them:Farmers' Markets
Food Routes
You can find Farmers' Markets and CSA farms.
A lot of useful links/searches make this a very, very good site! You can find Farmer’s Markets and CSA farms (Community Supported Agriculture).Warning: Some of the best stuff on this site is deep in. FoodRoutes also has an incredible links list – it will take you days to go through them all.
Local Harvest is great for finding Farmers' Markets and CSAs.
Farmers' Market Finder
Pacific Coast Farmer's
Market Association
and perhaps even better than Farmer's Markets are CSAs:
CSA =
(Community Supported
Agriculture)
How a CSA works: You subscribe for a period of time and receives a weekly basket of produce. Some CSA farms deliver, many don't. Some allow, ask or require you to help out in some way.
The weekly basket from a farm is, of course, different for each farm and the contents of the basket will also differ each week - whatever is ripe goes into your basket. No, you don’t get to choose what you get - but, this is sort of cool; some of the produce that you get, may be items which you might never purchase otherwise – this leads to questions and revelations like “What do I do with it?”, “Ah, Found a Recipe!”, “Wow – it’s actually Pretty Good!”, and the “I feel sort of dopey for ignoring this vegetable or fruit all of my life”. Okay, so this doesn’t always happen. But it definitely does happen.
Besides the Farmers' Market finders above, you can also find CSAs via these two links: WSAREs CSA search list and Biodynamic Farming & Gardening.
ATTRA -
National Sustainable
Agriculture Information
Service
They provide "information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States."
Euro-Toques International
A chef's organization dedicated to protecting the quality and flavor of foods, promoting the know-how of food craftsmen, preserving the ability to make and by cheeses made from raw milk, and much more.
Farm to Chef Express
200 miles north of NYC, a group of farmers have banded together to get their products to NYC chefs. (We have this on our site as we think this is a great idea!)
