EDF: From Anxiety to Creativity

Jill Nussinow is a northern California-based cookbook author, cooking teacher and recipe developer who teaches people about the joys of buying and eating fresh farmer’s market and homegrown produce. She is the author of “The Veggie Queen: Vegetables Get the Royal Treatment” cookbook and the DVD, “Pressure Cooking: A Fresh Look, Delicious Dishes in Minutes.” Her companion Web sites are Pressure Cooking Online and The Veggie Queen, which includes a lively blog. (Jill Nussinow) I head into this week with unusual trepidation and anxiety. My stock-in-trade is food, and making sure there’s plenty of it. How will I manage without shopping? It’s one of my major activities: I run into “real” people versus my “virtual” buddies. My twice weekly jaunts to the farmer’s market and occasional stops to the natural food store fulfill my “face time”. Will I survive? I discover that there’s more to this challenge than I

Written on June 26, 2009 | Posted in Family Reunion Featured News,entertaining | Leave a comment

EDF Realization: Size Doesn’t Matter

Allen Williams recently traded in his Silicon Valley dot-com career to pursue freelance food writing from Vancouver, B.C. Allen enjoys food exploration and combines childhood farm-style cooking with urban flavors at his blog, Eating Out Loud. When taking a break from cooking you’ll also find Allen sharing his vintage recipe card collection on his hobby site, Recovered Recipes. A peek inside Allen Williams’ pantry in Vancouver, B.C. (Allen Williams) In all honesty, I’ve feared Kim’s Eating Down the Fridge challenge ever since signing up. I found myself lured in by the prospect of making creative MacGyver-like meals but grew concerned about our 520 square-foot condo which we had just moved to a few months ago. The pantry is petite and the refrigerator narrow and not very deep. It’s the smallest space I’ve ever lived in, and I wasn’t sure if it contained enough food to sustain two adults for