Paul Virant: A Good Food Chef Who Keeps On Giving

2018-08-26T17:00:08-05:00August 16th, 2017|Good Food News|

"Farm to table" dining may have become commonplace on Chicago's restaurant menus. But Chef Paul Virant was in the vanguard of the movement just 13 years when he opened Vie restaurant in the suburb of Western Springs. And he is all about giving back to the community. Within a recent three-day span, Paul did a cooking demo with the Gardeneers audience for schoolchildren in Englewood, then was the honoree for Angelic Organics Learning Center at their annual dinner.

FamilyFarmed At Play: This Easy Fruit Salad Could Make Your Whole Summer

2018-08-27T03:56:40-05:00June 12th, 2017|Good Food News|

Most of what we do at FamilyFarmed, and most of what we write about on Good Food on Every Table, is pretty high-minded, focused on our efforts to build a better food system. This FamilyFarmed At Play article — about a boozy fruit salad — isn't quite so lofty. But we can virtually guarantee that it will make your summer eating (and picnicking) better.

LocalLocal: Making Sure You Get The Real Deal

2018-08-28T14:04:50-05:00August 9th, 2016|Good Food News|

LocalLocal.com is an online directory of restaurants, farms and food retailers that sell locally sourced food. By displaying the connections between retailers/restaurants and the farms where their food comes from, LocalLocal verifies that food is authentically local. LocalLocal founder Reed Shelger contributed this latest installment in Good Food on Every Table’s “Farm to Table: Keeping It Real” series.

Chicago’s Phoenix Tofu Rising Farther With Expansion, Media Attention

2018-08-28T15:59:34-05:00July 6th, 2016|Good Food News|

Jenny Yang and her Phoenix Tofu company in Chicago are shining examples of how FamilyFarmed's Good Food Business Accelerator helps food and farm entrepreneurs build their businesses. Yang is launching a major expansion in response to fast-rising demand, which was the subject of a recent profile in the Chicago Tribune. We have republished an article we wrote about her and Phoenix Tofu last year, with a link to the Tribune story.

Uncommon Ground: 25 Years as a Chicago Farm to Table Leader

2018-08-28T16:01:28-05:00June 28th, 2016|Good Food News|

There are few people in the restaurant business who have kept farm to table real better — or longer — than Chicago’s Helen and Mike Cameron. They opened Uncommon Ground in 1991 and ever since have been blazing trails in providing diners with locally and sustainable produced food. Read about their ahead-of-the-curve experiences and their 25th anniversary events in the latest installment of our "Farm to Table: Keeping It Real" series.

Chicago Chef Abra Berens’ Magic Is Making Food Waste Disappear

2018-08-28T16:12:29-05:00June 21st, 2016|Good Food News|

"Minimizing food waste is the next round of work that we have to do, both in the farm to table movement and in our food culture generally," says Abra Berens, chef of Stock Cafe at the innovative Local Foods market in Chicago. Read about her devotion to locally and sustainably sourced food, and to not letting any of it go to waste, in the latest installment of our "Farm to Table: Keeping It Real" series.

Local Food Fuels Main Street Mojo in Rural Kentucky

2018-08-29T13:49:46-05:00February 21st, 2016|Good Food News|

Just four years ago, Main Street in the small city of Corbin, Kentucky looked and felt like most downtowns in rural America: Vacant buildings. Empty sidewalks. A few surviving businesses. Today, though, there are thriving businesses and it’s hard to find a parking space on the mile and a half of Corbin’s Main Street. And local food is the engine driving this community's revival.

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