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The next Chicago Food Swap will take place on May 12 at The Scrumptious Pantry in Logan Square. Registration is now open. As always, to find out more about the Chicago Food Swap, check out our website or join the conversation on our Facebook page.

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Recap of the May Chicago Food Swap

Dora had some of the hottest food swap offerings with home-cured gravlax and dill labneh cheese.

Sunday May 12 was not just Mother’s Day; it was the latest meeting of the Chicago Food Swap! Our host for this Mother of all Food Swaps (ha!) was The Scrumptious Pantry, a company that produces heirloom pantry [...]

May 15th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Chicago, cooking | 5 comments

Glazed Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

Fluffy rolled oats from Hazzard Free Farm

Back in March when I attended the Good Food Festival, I met some folks from Hazzard Free Farm, a Certified Naturally Grown farm near Rockford, Illinois. Hazzard Free Farm grows heirloom grains, like blue and red cornmeal, barley, wheat and oats, and sells them to many of [...]

May 1st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: baking, Chicago, cooking | 2 comments

Michael Pollan at Elmhurst College

This past weekend I attended a lecture by best-selling author Michael Pollan at nearby Elmhurst College. Pollan, a science journalist, is best known for his writing about food and agriculture, including the books The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which is about how our food is raised, and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, which is about [...]

April 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Books, Chicago, cooking, Culture | One comment

Farmers’ Market Find: Green Tomatoes

While I continue to spend all my waking moments on grading, here is a post from last October about what to do with green tomatoes. With the temperatures dropping, you will be seeing a lot of these babies at the farmers’ markets this weekend and they sell for cheap. So pick some up to fry, [...]

October 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: canning, Chicago, cooking, Recipes | Comments are closed

August Chicago Food Swap Recap & a Mayo-Free Chicken Salad Recipe

This past Sunday was the fourth Chicago Food Swap and we had a record thirty-plus swappers. Perhaps word has spread about how fun and inspiring these food swaps are. Perhaps it was the presence of celebrity food blogger Marisa McClellan from Food in Jars who was there to meet the swappers and sign copies of [...]

August 31st, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: baking, canning, Chicago, cooking, Social Media | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 
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