Mooooving Day – Transhumance and the Impact on Dairy Cultures

 
 
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Every spring, Swiss dairy farmer Béat Piller escorts his 56 cows up the slope of the 6,000-foot Alp Vounetz to a grazing pasture and hand-built stable. They will stay there for the next six months, making milk and cheese every single day. In late autumn, they will descend back down to the valley where his family lives year-round. It’s a routine that has existed for millenia.

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Rose Levy Beranbaum: The Cookie Bible

Join Us on Monday, December 12th, 2022 at 7:00 PM (central) via Zoom!

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Lemon Lumpies
Pecan freezer squares
Rose’s Crescents

Her work can certainly be described as “biblical.” And Rose Levy Beranbaum is certainly one of the most sacred figures in all of cookbook publishing. Please join us as Rose delivers a sweet sermon about her latest scripture, The Cookie Bible. Continue reading

Naomi Duguid, A Salty Talk

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Black Bean Sauce
Duck Breast and Bitter Greens with Black Bean Sauce

“Salt”, as Naomi Duguid says, “is the only food we all need.” Come join us as this award-winning writer takes a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming food. And she will dish out a generous serving of salt history, harvesting methods and recipes as she quotes from her just-published book, The Miracle of Salt.

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Savoring Appalachia

Susi Gott Séguret/ Photo by John Warner

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Susi’s Jack Daniels-Infused Collards
Three Sisters Chowder

When asked which cuisine most typifies America, chefs are bound to tell you it stems from the South. From the luscious belly of our nation, the mountains where sweet corn is grown and the rivers where trout flashes its rainbow colors, all the way down to the Mississippi Delta, the South has a gift for capturing both our hearts and our taste buds. Continue reading

What Ewe Always Wanted to Know About Lamb Farming In The U.S.

Join Us on Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 at 7:00 PM via Zoom!

Presented by John and Sukey Jamison, owners, Jamison Farm, Latrobe, Pa.

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Delicious Lamb Shanks
Mushroom Lamb Stroganoff

From Scott Warner, president, Culinary Historians of Chicago: 

As a kid, I was always hesitant when it came to eating lamb chops; too often they were greasy and usually had an unpleasant “lamby” taste. In the last few years however, the lamb chops I’ve been buying from my local grocery store have been meaty, juicy and non “lamby” tasting.

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