Cookie Therapy
Who doesn’t love a good cookie? Cookies bring smiles. Cookies bring joy. Perhaps that is why decorative cookies have become popular at birthdays, graduations, and...
Chuck Viren
A Passion for Kombucha Motivates Brewers
I am often curious about how particular foods are discovered and developed. Take haggis, for example, or lutefisk. How did people make these discoveries? Cheese...
Artisan Bread Along the North Shore
Over the many thousands of years that humans have been making bread, techniques have been refined, as have the grains used to make bread. None-the-less,...
Lessons from The Sioux Chef
The Indigenous people who populated the boreal forests of this region traveled to encampments where they would grow or gather foods based on their seasonal...
Pizza on the North Shore
Flatbreads were known to have been eaten in ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. It didn’t take long for people to add toppings to these flatbreads....
Healthy Food—Commitment to Community
Autumn and early winter seem to provide the perfect opportunity to add a few pounds to the old physique. With the first winds of autumn,...
Winter Cocktails for the Holiday Season
It takes a special sort of genius, I think, to devise innovative cocktails that delight the palate and warm the belly on a cold winter...
Sausage-Making Traditions
Meat cutting is an age-old profession. The tricks of the trade have been passed on from generation to generation. That knowledge includes the art of...
