You know cherries are ready up north when you get stuck behind a shaker driving along blocking traffic, or when you come to a wet spot on the road with a scattering of cherries splashed from their containers while getting trucked from the orchards. Cherries are ready to pick, and Janice Benson at Taste the Local Difference has a collection of recipes to check out.
The Michigan Land Use Institute's Patty Cantrell explores how efforts to improve the safety of industrial farm food could lead to new regulations that hurt small-scale local growers in her article Food Safety Moves Could Harm Local Farm Prospects.
Traverse City welcomes two new back-to-back festivals next month: the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival on Aug. 22 and the Traverse City Microbrewery & Music Festival on Aug 29.
Communities are gearing up for fair season all around Northern Michigan. Take a look at our events page for details.
There were truly some amazing wines, delicious food by Wellington Market (including blueberry pizza!), Amical (whitefish dip, Mediterranean rice salad), Trattoria Stella (heirloom tomato or aspargus/spinach bruschetta), and Red Ginger (sushi rolls). Thanks to Matt Sutherland, the wineries, distributors, restaurants, and to the National Cherry Festival for the nice space. Our time there was fun and relaxing. Maybe too relaxing!
As a lifelong fitness enthusiast and devotee of nutritional science, I created this delicious smoothie for post workout replenishment.
My kids have no idea how healthy it is, they love the way it tastes. The tea and cinnamon give it a really exotic flavor.
Shetler Family Dairy is tweaking their yogurt smoothies to include a new fruit puree formulated by Food for Thought that uses fruit grown naturally by local farmers. Very cool!
Shetler Family Dairy's ice cream and a bit of Michigan ice cream trivia for you.
Today's Record-Eagle has a collection of cherry recipes including chicken salad, sweet-sour cherries and shrimp, cherry buffalo meatballs and more.
Traverse City gets some foodie props on Huffington Post. Check out Traverse City, Michigan Is A New Foodie Haven ... but we've known that all along!
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Farmers' markets aren't just for the warm months any more. This winter, some Up North markets are taking it inside on Saturdays!
