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Emeril’s Table
Tune in 11/7 at 11 a.m. on the Hallmark Channel for pyrotechnics, local food, and more. Had a great time on the show. Trying to figure out how how to record it (I’m not the most tech-savvy person, nor am I particularly gifted at cropping photos. Oh well, don’t tell anyone).
What You Don’t Know: How To Keep Helping Farms After Irene
Hurricane Irene seems like a long time ago, right? Autumn is upon us, school has started; the summer is in the distant past. Unfortunately, for far too many farmers in the Hudson Valley, Greene County, New Jersey, Vermont, and beyond, the effects of Irene are still very much alive–a living nightmare. Crops, acres, entire harvests are completely underwater. Ruined. 100 percent crop loss is uttered again and again. Our farmers need our help. Out of sight should not be out of mind.
Please take a moment to visit Just Food’s Hurricane Irene Relief page to find out how you can volunteer and donate. Also, check out Evolutionary Organics Flood Recovery Fundraiser for more ways to contribute. Don’t forget to frequent your local farmers’ market this coming weekend–talk to farmers as you shop. You might be surprised to learn how many of them have been touched by Irene, how many people are still there selling with 30, 50, and even 70 percent crop loss back on their farms. Buy as much as you can. You can also sign up early for a 2011/2012 CSA share ASAP so a local farmer will have money they sorely need now to get going for next season.
Farmers need all of us to support them in good times as well as bad. We need to ensure our local farmers are taken care of. They feed all of us and we need them and their farms. And please spread the word.
Here are a few more links for hurricane relief efforts. Do check them out, tell your friends:
Thank You Jeffrey Hollender
Loving this blog Jeffrey Hollender posted today: If I Wanted Someone To Talk About My Brand It Would Be Alexandra Zissu.
A few highlights:
“If I wanted someone to talk about my brand–especially to moms who own a lion’s share of purchasing power and who vote for change with their wallets (and actions)–it would be Alexandra Zissu.
Alexandra is the author and green living expert par excellence who helped me write Planet Home: Conscious Choices For Cleaning and Greening The World You Care About Most….
Alexandra she has a knack for translating hard to understand sustainability issues and environmental health science into easy, pithy consumer English. She’s passionate about giving people the education and tools to make conscious decisions as they go about their daily routines—and especially about the collective impact this can have. She knows what parents and other eco-interested consumers really want to hear and what they don’t want to hear–drawing on her experience with her own active group of followers via books, articles, blogs, social media, talks, and demonstrations. She also has a deep understanding of the full spectrum of green—from people just getting started to the diehard lifers.
Don’t think that anyone’s going to pull the wool over Alexandra’s eyes. I’ve found her a tough critique of Seventh Generation’s as well as almost every product we reviewed for Planet Home. But that’s exactly what you want. Trust comes from transparency, a balanced perspective on the great, and the not so great. That’s what the best brand ambassador is uniquely able to do. She won’t read from a script, she’ll visit your lab, talk to other customers, do a little bit of her own testing and research, maybe even tell you quietly a few things you might not be so eager to hear….A better brand ambassador you won’t find!”
Read it in full here.
The Butcher’s Guide To Well-Raised Meat in Edible Manhattan
Many thanks to Edible Manhattan for mentioning The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat in their summer issue! Love this: “…the book is much more than a manual. Simultaneously irreverent, uproarious and informative, it presents jaw-dropping truths about modern meat, laugh-out-loud explanations of offal, and, yes, stuff-your-mouth recipes for dishes like tongue tacos.” For more, see Edible Manhattan – July, Aug.
The Butcher’s Guide To Well-Raised Meat In The News
Feeling grateful for all of the mentions of The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat in the news and on the web! Here are a few recent articles and posts:
Thanks The Denver Post for reprinting the Quick Lamb Meatballs recipe.
The Butcher Blog has a great write-up on their website, including this tidbit I love: ”It’s neither cookbook nor reference book nor memoir nor treatise, but the sum of all these things, making it much more.”
For more reviews, check out Bamboo Magazine, Errant Dreams (who gave the book a 5 out of 5!), Uncrate, and Urban Daddy.
Thank you, thank you!
The Butcher’s Guide in the Santa Cruz Sentinel!
Many thanks to the Santa Cruz Sentinel for featuring the perfect steak recipe from The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat!
Blogging Pause/The Butcher’s Guide To Well-Raised Meat Launches
I’ll be taking a small blogging hiatus as I launch The Butcher’s Guide To Well-Raised Meat. Back to regularly scheduled programming shortly, I promise. Please check News & Events to come join me at one of the celebrations, and stop by the Press page to read what people are saying about the book.
Granny’s Gone Viral
Well that was unexpected. My New York Times article on grandparent names climbed to #1 most emailed on the site for a good long while and it has been picked up all over the place, including on the Time’s own Motherload blog. Thanks for sharing Baltimore Sun, Babble, Jezebel, and others.
Getting Back To My Roots In The New York Times
I enjoyed writing this article, Who Are You Calling Grandma? on grandparent names for The New York Times. Back before I became eco-obsessed, I was a style journalist. I covered trends, food, fashion, whathaveyou. Reporting this reminded me of the work I used to do. Fun! And no worries about toxic chemicals!
