Here are some cooking tools for the sustainable kitchen. And a raspberry thumbprint recipe to sustain you on cold winter days.
Green Plate Special
Tired leftovers take on fresh identity as plan-overs
Prep potatoes once, eat three times, three ways.
Trips to the woodlot can improve pork’s disposition
When pigs do what pigs do best, both your forest and, eventually, your table will benefit.
Cold fact is that transporting food can become less harmful
Changes in technology hold the promise of reducing energy use, food waste and hunger.
Easy as pie to celebrate rebound for Maine cranberries
Combined with raisins or dried blueberries, this year’s healthy crop is perfect for a filling similar to cooked sour cherries.
Green Plate Special: From a little acorn, use of mighty good flour could grow
A teacher of skills that connect people to the earth and community advocates cooking with the oak tree’s gift.
Five ways to use your fall apple bounty – peels, cores and all
Ideas for reducing waste range from making vinegar to flavoring bourbon.
Green Plate Special: Farmed salmon from Maine now comes with more sustainability
Aquaculture here has improved, giving locally raised fish a smaller environmental footprint.
Maine school lunches getting healthier, but are kids eating them?
Part of the challenge is getting good-for-you food to taste good.
Green Plate Special: Turning ‘garbage’ herbs into vinegar
What to do with your thriving herbs now that winter approaches?