Dig in with your knife and fork – early October serves up a full plate of Columbus food news! 1. Local Foods Week starts Friday with a happy hour at restaurants around the city benefiting Local Matters. Festivities continue October 1 – 8 with events as diverse as an urban farming forum at the Wex to local drink tasting at House Wine to the culminating Harvest Dinner and Ball and Market to Market ride. Head [...]

Fill your calendar and your belly with some of the local food events scheduled for this autumn! Hounds in the Kitchen classes at Franklin Park Conservatory: register by calling 614.645.5923 or download, print and mail a registration form. Puttin’ Up Keep the summer bounty easily at hand all year long with tried and true preserving techniques. Homesteader Rachel Tayse Baillieul will guide class participants to make freezer basil pesto, water-bath canned applesauce, “sun” dried tomatoes [...]

I’ve never posted a Wordless Wednesday before but today, still suffering from a sinus infection, a post with few words sounds like a good idea. “When we spin sugar, it’s by eye and sight.  When we layer Askinosie Chocolate, it’s by hand.” “Butterfat is this perfect flavor carrier. It melts at body temperature so flavor is released to your mouth and nose.” “We are friends with our farmers and our farmers are friends with us.  [...]

Local Matters has declared the next seven days Local Foods Week.  They have arranged a plethora of local food activities including a Market to Market ride going on now.  Alex, Lil, and I have tickets for the Jeni’s Tour Tuesday and I’m trying to figure out how to catch Brother’s Drake Meadery at one of their tastings. I am leading a canning demonstration at Oakland Nursery‘s newly renovated education space on Sunday October 10 from [...]

Part of the purpose of Hounds in the Kitchen is to advocate for local foods and local eating.  ‘Local‘ is subjective and prone to green-washing as are so many other terms.  With the advent of Local Foods Week coming soon (see below), now is a good time to talk about what is local. Some define local in terms of miles: In 2005, authors Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon spent a year eating only what was [...]