Whether it’s in your front yard or on your plate, springtime is marked by the reemergence of green. Quite fittingly, Earth Day falls in April (this Monday, to be exact) -- a reminder for all of us to practice sustainability and take care of our environment.
You've made it to Friday, which means it's time to treat yourself to a roundup of links we love. Go ahead, procrastinate a little.
Good food is something we all know and love. But it goes beyond our tastebuds -- food that is responsibly produced, sustainable, and environmentally-friendly makes our dishes better than any seasoning could on its own. The people of Good Food Awards stand behind this principle, and every year, they set out to highlight the best in American producers that stand behind it, too.
What changed for the world of food in 2012? Plenty!
Crowdsourced local food guide Real Time Farms announced Sunday a new partnership with Food52.
"If you were to put Game Changer Amanda Hesser’s life on a timeline, you would notice that food, specifically good food, is a constant presence." - Kathryn Finney, BlogHer.com
What's a Wobble Bowl? Aside from being fun to say, these nifty, all-purpose, brightly colored bowls are pretty fun to play with. Yep! A Wobble Bowl is meant to rock, tip, and twirl, but its low center of gravity means that your cereal or salad will never be in danger of spilling. Who knew that dishware could dance?
"It takes vision to realize you have something valuable, and that’s exactly what Co-Founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs had when they realized they had created a robust community of food lovers, recipe makers and at-home chefs for their crowdsourced cookbook." - Kate Brodock, Forbes.com
Today: The fantastic nonprofit Share Our Strength, whose documentary Hunger Hits Home premieres on Food Network this Saturday, April 14, takes us across the country and into the workdays of 18 of their employees for a very special Supply Chain. For more from our food friends and Food Network's Communal Table, click here. Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit, is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need to lead healthy, active lives. Through its No Kid Hungry Campaign -- a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2015 -- Share Our Strength ensures children in need are enrolled in federal nutrition programs, invests in community organizations fighting hunger, teaches families how to cook healthy, affordable meals, and builds public-private partnerships to end childhood hunger, at the state and city level. The employees at Share Our Strength are a busy bunch! Eighteen of them -- designers, organizers, fundraisers, and more -- shared snapshots from their days with us. From Arkansas to Chicago to Capitol Hill, it's easy to see that Share Our Strength is making a difference in the fight to end childhood hunger.
We're celebrating the artisans, writers, makers, and more who make up the diverse and inspiring world of food. Today: Cathy Erway of Not Eating Out in New York shares a busy Friday with Supply Chain, from Fairway to the chicken coop to the kitchen. Cathy Erway is the author of The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove, which chronicled her two years of cooking from scratch. She blogs at Not Eating Out in New York and hosts the weekly podcast Let's Eat In, interviewing subjects on all things home-cooked. She currently works at Sixpoint Brewery in Brooklyn, where she keeps egg-laying hens on a rooftop garden (if you love Canal House Cooks Lunch, don't miss Lunch at Sixpoint!), and writes for The L Magazine, Edible Brooklyn, and the Huffington Post.
That’s by the home cook…a result of a year’s worth of recipes from home cooks who sent them into the website Food52. It’s always great to see what home cooks are doing. - Sara Moulton
"We amalgamated 195 Best Cookbooks of 2011 lists from around the world to come up with the definitive guide to the best books on food and drink." -EatYourBooks.com
After sifting through the new releases and cooking from them, we've come up with 10 books that we heartily recommend. - LA Times
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