Farmstead Chef

Acknowledgments Introduction

1 Breakfast Entrées Farming without Fossil Fuels Curing Your Summertime Culinary Rut Kitchen Table Talk: Delivering the Diverse Tastes of the Seasons: Jai and Joel Kellum, King's Hill Farm, Mineral Point, Wisconsin Just Can It: Preserving the Harvest

2 Breads Kneading Sustainability Sprouting Hope with Your 100-foot Diet Sun Oven Cuisine: Cooking Unplugged Kitchen Table Talk: Follow Your Seed: Roger Doiron, Kitchen Gardeners International, Washington, DC

3 Soups Our Food. Our Farm. Our Rules Kitchen Table Talk: Eat It, To Save It: Chef Poppy Tooker, host of WWNO's Louisiana Eats! and author of Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook, New Orleans Carpe Diem: Seize and Savor the Potluck's Flavors Becoming a Local Forager

4 Sides, Sauces and Salads Nature's Ponzi Scheme Food Fight: Becoming a Victory Garden Grower Kitchen Table Talk: Eating Local in an Invisible Way: Todd and Jordan Champagne, Happy Girl Kitchen, Pacific Grove, California

5 Nibbles (Appetizers) Small Bites, Big Change Kitchen Table Talk: Feeding the Mind, Heart and Soul: Chef Bryant Terry, Oakland, California Eggs-cellent: Hens in the Henhouse Organic Eating on a Dime

6 Main Dishes A Declaration of Food Interdependence Kitchen Table Talk: Back to the Landers: Maple Trees and Mentoring, Phil and Judy Welty, Welty's Sugar Bush, Browntown, Wisconsin Kitchen Table Talk: Meet Your Meat Maker: Beth and Jody Osmund, Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm, Ottawa, Illinois

7 Cakes, Pies and Sweets Artisanal Eating, Cooking and Living Kitchen Table Talk: Changing the Future of Food, Slice by Slice, Nancy Vail and Jered Lawson, Pie Ranch, Pescadero, California

8 Drinks Sipping Peace Farm Chicks for Change: Four Ways Women Instigate an Agriculture Revolution Kitchen Table Talk: Shovel Ready - Young Farmers Back in the Fields: Severine von Tscharner Fleming, The Greenhorns, Hudson Valley, New York

9 Liam's Favorites and Pantry Stocking Connecting the Dots to Homemade Stock up on Convenience: Farmstead Pantry Checklist Kitchen Table Talk: Culinary Community Activists Hosting Soup Nights, The Carus Family, Monroe, Wisconsin

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