To Italy! Information session Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 4:00pm, 131 College Hall, WWU campus

Interested in Italian food and Italian travel? There is an information session this Tuesday (Jan 24, 4pm, College Hall 131)…it is for students considering signing up, but it also is a great opportunity to meet the other students going on the trip ..... or, if you're just thinking of traveling in Italy, you may find some good advice there.

Here, Alex Dembergh (left) and Dan Nessly (center) (two of our students going on the Florence 2012 trip), with Amber Peralta (right) -- get ready to tackle questions about farming.

Local, in January

 Thanks, Hopewell Farms and more, Whatcom County

Tortilla, the piano-playing cat

What are you buying -- with organic?

See Bananas!* by Swedish film director Fredrik Gertten

Community Supported Agriculture

Check out the recent article on an exciting (and essential) idea for foodies -- linking sourced food with cooking. The Slow Food movement couldn't say it better. See http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/01/03/2329310/whatcom-locavore-unique-concept.html. AF + K (Acme Farms + Kitchen) is featured.

Really great, also, of course is food coming directly from one farm -- 100% farmsite and 100% oversight
see the list for Whatcom county at http://www.communityfood.coop/coop/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CSA-2011.pdf If you live elsewhere, just google "list of CSAs" and your county/country's name!

...and not to forget our small- and mid-sized farms that contribute to local economies, as well as the local food base (directly and indirectly)...for more, see http://www.wcfarmfriends.com/

Holiday Food!

Much to be thankful for -- especially a network of traditional-foodies. Including my house (well, most of us).

Venison Lasagne and Desire Salmon

Applesauce

Roasted Chicken (local)

Slow-cooked Inspiration Farm Ham

Mashed Potatoes (from our gardens)

Nutrient-dense vs. sugar-dense, a table-food of real food vs. 3 cookies

How do you want your 600 calories? Fresh milk, full-cream yogurt, traditional bean soup (garden scarlet runner beans, simmered with ham bones), kim chee, beets with a bit of rice and feta, baked wild salmon, pumpkin soup with chicken broth.......................................or three cookies?

(Much) More importantly than the calories, is the refined carbs count.................so high in those cookies

Nutrient-dense Foods for 100, including all those who help teach

A final pot luck for 100 -- with students bringing foods FLOSS-Y -- Fresh, Local, Organic, Sustainable, and/or Seasonable, as well as nutrient-dense!  Students' favorite classes -- fermentation with Sandor Katz and WAPF's Daravan Mirith.

and of course a special meal after for all those who taught ....