Title Image: Farmer sets out produce at a farmers market. Credit: Tyler Jones, UF/IFAS This summer and fall, UF/IFAS Extension will host the Ag Entrepreneurship Series, a program designed to help aspiring and beginning farmers sow the seeds of success. “Extension...
Don’t Get “Tangled Up” in Cooking Twine – The Turbo Trusser Solves An Old Problem For Poultry
Like new kitchen gadgets? If you’re like me the answer is yes.Being the food editor for Where The Food Comes From, the Turbo Trusser definitely got my attention. The Turbo Trusser bills itself as a new way of tying poultry without getting “tangled up” in cooking...
Bye Bye Bananas? Lunchbox Favorite Is One Of Many Crops Threatened In A Changing World
No more bananas? Seems impossible. But there’s a very real possibility that bananas — along with other key produce items – could simply disappear in the next few years. Think it couldn’t happen? It already has. If you’re under 60, you’ve probably never eaten what...
Why Winn-Dixie Is Dying
Once upon a time Winn-Dixie stores spread across the South like dew on a summer morning. At its peak, the chain had well over a thousand stores and was a top 10 national retailer. Winn-Dixie can trace its roots to Miami, FL in 1925, when the Davis Family (a...
Nothing Fishy About Chef Kyle Cowan’s Approach To Pairing Produce And Seafood
Maybe the oddest of Chef Kyle Cowan’s coast-to-coast culinary adventures was learning to sex a crab. But more important than being able to tell if a crab is a boy or girl is knowing what to pair with that crab or any of the myriad seafood dishes Cowan serves up as...