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<a href="http://www.eatwild.com/" title="Eat Wild">Eat Wild</a>: &ldquo;Eat Wild features comprehensive, up-to-date information about the benefits of choosing meat, eggs, and dairy products from pastured animals. As you will see by exploring this site, raising animals on pasture is a win-win-win-win situation.&rdquo;

<a href="http://www.chefscollaborative.org/" title="Welcome to the Chefs Collaborative website!">Chefs Collaborative</a>: Chefs Collaborative is a national network of more than 1,000 members of the food community who promote sustainable cuisine by celebrating the joys of local, seasonal, and artisanal cooking&hellip; 



In addition to promoting exceptional taste and culinary technique, the Collaborative is dedicated to:

• Local growers, who enrich our communities by providing our restaurants and farmers markets with distinctive, delicious, seasonal produce
• Artisanal producers, many of whom are preserving valuable traditions
• All who work toward sustainable agriculture and aquaculture, humane animal husbandry, and well-managed fisheries
• Conservation practices that lessen our impact on the environment.

<a href="http://www.earthpledge.org/SUSCU99/wpsc9922.htm" title="White Papers: More Than Food for Thought">More Than Food for Thought</a>: &ldquo;From my perspective, sustainable agriculture is the foundation upon which sustainable cuisine rests. The issues related to sustainable agriculture &mdash; food safety, world food production (which may or may not be related to world hunger), the implications of global use of genetically modified plants, the ever-shrinking proportion of the food dollar that reaches the farmer, conventional agriculture&rsquo;s structural dependence on pesticides and herbicides, the deliberate vertical integration and consolidation of the food industry from seed to processed foods, the average number of miles food travels before being consumed, the continuing loss of prime agricultural farm land &mdash; all fall within the concept of sustainable cuisine.&rdquo;

<a href="http://www.localharvest.org/" title="LocalHarvest - Farmers Markets / Family Farms / Organic Food">LocalHarvest</a>: &ldquo;Do you want fresh, locally grown, organic food, but don&rsquo;t know where to find it? The LocalHarvest map makes it easy to find family farms, farmers markets and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area.&rdquo;



<a href="http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?&amp;lat=40.8449&amp;lon=-77.6854&amp;scale=1" title="Search - LocalHarvest">Centre Hall, PA</a>

<a href="http://www.earthandtable.com/" title="Earth&amp;Table: Directory of Gardening Resources">Seed Saving</a>: &ldquo;An economical way to prepare for next year&rsquo;s harvest, saving seed will also enable you to hand select the healthiest and best-suited fruits and vegetables for your garden&rsquo;s soil and micro-climate.



A gardener can only save seed from an open-pollinated or heirloom variety, as hybrids will usually not produce seedlings with the same traits as their parents (in fact, they are frequently inferior to them). To begin, select the plants you will harvest for seed early in the season, choosing those that embody the traits you find most favorable. For the rest of the season, take care that these plants remain healthy and pest free, so the seeds do not suffer from stress. Each plant has its own peculiarities for saving seed, but generally, wait until the seed or seedpod is completely dry before harvesting. For fruit, wait for it to become totally ripe, then separate and clean the seeds, then allow them to dry&rdquo;

<a href="http://www.umass.edu/umext/csa/about.html" title="Information from UMass Extension: What is CSA?">What is Community Supported Agriculture

and How Does It Work?: “Food is a basic human need. Yet for most of us in the U.S., it is merely an inexpensive commodity that we take for granted. Issues surrounding how, where, or by whom it is grown are not generally the topic of conversation around the dinner table. Considering the current situation in agriculture, perhaps they should be. Food in the U.S. travels an average of 1,300 miles from the farm to the market shelf. Almost every state in the U.S. buys 85-90% of its food from some place else. In Massachusetts, for example, this food import imbalance translates to a $4 billion leak in the state economy on an annual basis. UMass studies have determined that Massachusetts could produce closer to 35% of its food supply. This 20% increase would contribute $1 billion annually to the Commonwealth.

“Increased local food production would add considerable food dollars to the economy of many other states. Meanwhile, the nation’s best farm land is being lost to commercial and residential development at an accelerating rate. At the same time, the retirement of older farmers, increasing land and production costs, low food prices, competing land uses, the lack of incentive for young people to enter farming, and the fundamental restructuring of the national and global economy all combine to make farming and local food production in the U.S. an increasingly difficult task. Community Supported Agriculture represents a viable alternative to the prevailing situation and the long-distance relationship most of us have with the food we eat.”

<a href="http://www.gapersblock.com/airbags/archives/hail_to_the_chef.php" title="Gapers' Block {Chicago, IL}">Ask the Librarian: Hail to the Chef</a>: &ldquo;Who cooks for the President? Where did he work before? Is he classically trained? Is it the same guy for every president, or does each president bring his own? Does the President have regular hours or a regular menu, or does the chef just sit in the kitchen all the time and wait for a special order?&rdquo;

<a href="http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/conference/etech/food.html" title="Emerging Technologies - SIGGRAPH 2003">Food Simulator</a>: &ldquo;The Food Simulator is a haptic interface that displays biting force. It is designed to fit to the user's mouth, where it delivers the captured force of real food and auditory and chemical sensations associated with eating.&rdquo;

<a href="http://webexhibits.org/butter/" title="Butter : Explore the history &amp; making of butter">Butter : Explore the history &amp; making of butter</a>: &ldquo;Butter is a culinary treasure as old as King Tut&rsquo;s tomb. &lsquo;She brought forth butter in a lordly dish&rsquo; (Judges 5:25). A jug of wine, a loaf of bread &mdash; and butter! Pure butter is produced today essentially as it was in King Tut&rsquo;s time, though butter made of milk from cows instead of camels or water buffaloes.&rdquo;

<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/87/" title="Farmer, Fannie Merritt. 1918. The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book">The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book</a>: &ldquo;This classic American cooking reference includes 1,849 recipes, including everything from &lsquo;after-dinner coffe&rsquo; &mdash; which Farmer notes is beneficial for a stomach &lsquo;overtaxed by a hearty meal&rsquo; &mdash; to &lsquo;Zigaras &agrave;� la Russe,&rsquo; an elegant puff-pastry dish. Bartleby.com chose the 1918 edition because it was the last edition of the cookbook authored completely by Farmer.&rdquo;