Slow Food (http://www.slowfood.com/)
People have forgotten what it means to live. Everyone is too rushed and they miss out on the best things. This is one movement I can get behind.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Heritage Foods (http://www.heritagefoodsusa.com/)
Do you know why chickens and turkeys are white? So that when they don’t get all the feathers off the consumer won’t see them. Turns out people don’t like seeing black feathers on their meat. Notice there is nothing here about flavor.
Heritage Foods USA was formed in 2001 as the sales and marketing arm for Slow Food USA, a non-profit organization founded by Patrick Martins and dedicated to celebrating regional cuisines and products. The Heritage Turkey Project, which helped double the population of heritage turkeys in the United States and upgraded the Bourbon Red turkey from “rare” to “watch” status on conservation lists, was Heritage Foods USA’s first foray into saving American food traditions. In 2004 it became an independent company dedicated to saving not only turkeys but also Native American foods, pigs, sheep, bison, cows, reef-net salmon, chickens and all breeds of food livestock.
Local Harvest (http://www.localharvest.org/)
We have been members of communitee supported agriculture (CSA) farms for a few years now. This is a wonderful thing. If you have one of these near you, do it. It will change the way you eat. You get a great variety and get so many veggies that you have to work hard to use them all. Best of all they are generally organic and support your local farmers.
People worldwide are rediscovering the benefits of buying local food. It is fresher than anything in the supermarket and that means it is tastier and more nutritious. It is also good for your local economy–buying directly from family farmers helps them stay in business.
Epicurious http://www.epicurious.com/
Recipes, recipes and more recipes. The best way to learn to cook is to cook. Go here and look up anything. I usually start with an ingredient or two. This site has every Gourmet and Bon Appetite reipe ever. If you can’t find something here, you aren’t looking hard enough. I use these recipes as guides. I’ve learned a lot here.
