FOOD TRUTH

Slow Food Is Better For You & Your Wallet

2011-10-03T21:20:00.002-04:00

People have fallen into fast food's commercialism trap if they believe that junk food is cheaper than real food. By just putting a little time and creativity into a meal, it is easy to create a healthy, wholesome dinner at home that isn't the hyper-processed McDonald's cuisine full of high-caloric fats and greases. The truth is that even though people complain that preparing a meal is more expensive than eating fast food, they end up paying more in both dollars and empty calories at Wendy's than at home. What's even more interesting (and frightening) is that hyper-processed food is designed to become neurologically addictive, not dissimilar to the effects that heroin use causes on the brain. Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2.

Weaving A Sustainable Food Web

2011-09-22T18:00:00.001-04:00

What's a better way to spend that "awkward time" after dinner this Friday than coming to participate in a community discussion about expanding the local sustainable food system? Carleton College and St. Olaf College are bringing together students, professors, parents, and food activists in an event led by keynote speaker Holly Lasanga of Bates College in her presentation entitled "Weaving A Sustainable Food Web." From students to parents, farmers to educators, we have already done much to improve the nutrition that Northfield's citizens receive. Friday's presentation will serve as another door to increasing the amount of healthy, sustainable food in the community.

The event will begin at 5:30 PM in Carleton's Great Hall. Carleton and St. Olaf students will present their efforts at promoting nutrition in public schools in the area and initiating movements toward real food on our college campuses. Following, Lasanga will share her personal story about coordinating a three-year sustainable food partnership between Bates and other colleges. The event will conclude with group discussions on thoughts about the next steps the community should take to overcome the challenges and bring more real food to Northfield.

This event is free and open to the public. If interested, please RSVP to Soraya Dangor of Growing Up Healthy, at soraya@growinguphealthy.org.

Test Tube Meat

2011-09-12T21:45:00.002-04:00

To some, eating a burger that was actually manufactured in a lab may sound like a chilling nightmare from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but to others, the discovery that in vitro meat may be coming soon to our supermarkets is a cause for celebration. Having recently traveled to laboratories in the Netherlands and North Carolina to observe the progress of tissue scientists in their titanic endeavor, science writer Michael Specter eagerly argues in favor of test-tube meat. Scientists retrieve stem cells from pigs and place them in petri dishes of nutrient-rich broth, and these cells rapidly divide and grow to become meat cells.

Specter explains that animal welfare is a huge part of the motivation for growing meat in labs. "Billions of cows, chickens and pigs would no longer spend their lives force-fed grain and antibiotics or cooped up in factory farms." In vitro meat would also benefit the planet immensely by reducing the amount of global livestock needed, which, "according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, is responsible for nearly 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions. And as the population grows, more resources will be needed to sustain the agricultural industry."

With promising studies such as test tube meat, Thomas Malthus may finally stop churning in his grave.
Read more at http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat.

Food and Freedom Rides

2011-08-29T14:45:00.001-04:00

As summer is drawing to a close, the journey toward food justice continues. This month, 13 riders, who call themselves the Food and Freedom Riders, traveled 8 states and 2000 miles from the South to the Midwest to spread the word about our nation's broken food system. Their objectives: to highlight local food activism, to educate youth on federal food policy, and to carry the message to political decision-makers that real food is attainable.

Food and Freedom Rides and its sponsoring organization, Live Real, commemorate the 1961 anti-segregation Freedom Rides that originated in Birmingham, Alabama. Much as the Civil Rights Era Freedom Rides sought to unmask and halt racial injustices all across America, this noble voyage hopes to "expose injustice in the food system, and reveal real solutions in both urban and rural communities." The first Food and Freedom Ride took place from August 7 - 18 and brought the riders from the deep south to Detroit, Michigan, and the second ride venturing through California is happening from August 26 - September 2. Check out the Food and Freedom Riders' adventures here: http://www.good.is/post/spreading-food-justice-from-the-hood-to-the-heartland/

Little Hill Berry Farm

2011-08-24T14:34:00.000-04:00

Last spring, Carleton students volunteered at a local blueberry farm. The farm is run by two local Northfield residents and is just getting started. We helped unload thousands of blueberry bushes and helped plant them at a planting party. It was a great way to escape the Carleton bubble and meet Northfield residents. We had a great time and hope to help again this year!

Check out the blueberry farm at http://littlehill.squarespace.com/

Lauren holding blueberry plants!:

Eat the Lawn

2011-08-24T14:32:00.000-04:00

Eat the Lawn is a student run vegetable and flower garden on Carleton's quad. Started as an art independent study, students plan, plant, maintain the garden each season. The food and flowers are for everyone and anyone! Stop on your way to calculus class to grab a cherry tomato or pick some flowers to put in your friend's mailbox on Friday!

Real Food Challenge

2011-08-24T14:26:00.000-04:00

The past few years, Food Truth has begun working with the Real Food Challenge, an awesome organization that works with college students to get "real food" in their dining halls.

Real Food Challenge defines "real food" as food which truly nourishes producers, consumers, communities and the earth. It is a food system--from seed to plate--that fundamentally respects human dignity and health, animal welfare, social justice and environmental sustainability.

We have participated in some of their workshops and other events, have used their calculator to figure out how much real food is in our dining halls and how to get more, and plan on participating in National Food Day on October 24th, an event they are helping run. This past February, some Food Truth students went to the Real Food Challenge Midwest Summit at Northwestern University. We met food activists from schools all over the Midwest and went to some inspiring workshops and field trips.

Check it out at realfoodchallenge.org!

Turtle Farm

2011-08-20T21:39:00.001-04:00

This summer I volunteered a couple days a week at a farm near my home in Des Moines, Iowa called Turtle Farm. Check out their website here: http://www.turtle-farm.com/

Turtle Farm is an organic CSA (community supported agriculture) in Granger, IA. Angela Tedesco is the owner, and Ben, the farm manager, runs things with the help of three full-time employees (Lucy, Darrin, and Josh), and numerous volunteers. The farm grows many different types of vegetables: eggplant, pole beans, snap peas, beets, squash, tomatoes, strawberries, asparagus, cucumbers, okra, chard, lettuce, and peppers, just to name a few. Ben likes to grow many unique varieties that you can't find in grocery stores. I didn't know there were white eggplants and brown peppers called sweet chocolates! One of my favorite parts of this summer was learning about all of the different vegetables (and sampling them, of course).

I've gotten to help out with many different tasks during my time at Turtle Farm. I had very limited farming experience before this summer, so I learned a lot. I helped harvest, weed, move fences, weave plants up trellises, lay down weed fabric, and set up irrigation. This experience helped me appreciate how much work farming really is. I was usually there for 3-4 hours, but the farm crew puts in 8 hour days. As hard as the work is, it is extremely fulfilling. I like feeling that my physical effort is accomplishing a worthwhile task, because what could be better than feeding people? It's also a great way to spend time outdoors and see all kinds of cool critters (I'm an insect fanatic). Yesterday we found a bullsnake that's endangered in Iowa! All in all it's been extremely rewarding, and I'm grateful to everyone at the farm for giving me this experience. I'm looking forward to future agricultural adventures.

by Megan Brant '13

"UW study finds large dairy farms produce higher quality milk more often than small operations"

2011-08-07T21:46:00.000-04:00

Food Truther Courtney Halbach found this article in her local newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal. The study used two measurements of milk quality: bacteria count and somatic cell count, which measures infection in cows. As the title suggests, with these measurements, large industrial farms appeared to have higher quality milk than small, family operations. Critics of the study point out that these are only two narrow measurements of milk quality, and that issues with industrial farms go beyond milk quality to issues such as water pollution.

Wal-Mart going local?

2011-08-03T23:50:00.000-04:00

There was an interesting article in my local paper (The Des Moines Register) recently about Wal-Mart's plan to buy more local produce. I couldn't find a link to that article, but I found a similar one published in the NY Times in October 2010. Wal-Mart's shift to local could have huge positive implications, since Wal-Mart is the largest grocer in the nation. But is the produce truly "local", or is it only a marketing ploy? Some critics are also concerned that buying produce--even local produce--from a large, industrial corporation does not have all of the benefits of purchasing directly from a farmer through a CSA or farmer's market. Check out the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/business/15walmart.html

Rural Enterprise Center

2011-08-03T23:40:00.000-04:00

This past spring, Food Truth began speaking with a group in the Northfield area called Rural Enterprise Center (REC). REC helps low-income, rural Latino families start up natural, free-range poultry farms that are ecologically and economically sustainable. Learn more from their website: http://www.ruralec.com/

Taking out Tyson

2011-07-19T00:22:00.000-04:00

This past spring, Food Truth has been hard at work on two campaigns. 1. We successfully reached our goal of getting fair trade, organic bananas in the dining halls (more on this campaign to come), and 2. we started our campaign against Tyson chicken.

BonAppetit gets its chicken from Tyson, the world's largest meat producer. Tyson's business practices have a number of detrimental effects on animal welfare, the environment, and human rights, which Foodtruther Tayler Owen details in his article that appeared in the Carletonian back in May. Because of these issues, Food Truth has decided to take a stand and call for an end to Carleton's business with Tyson.

Taylor's article caused a bit of a controversy and prompted BonAppetit to investigate Tyson's alleged overuse of antibiotics in their chicken. BonAppetit claims that it "only buys chicken raised without the "non-therapeutic" routine use of human antibiotics as feed additives." The article suggests that Tyson's practices do not align with BonAppetit's standards, so Helene York, the Director of the BonAppetit Foundation, investigated. She then wrote a response to Taylor's article which appeared in the May 13th Carletonian, in which she brings up some interesting points. It is really exciting to see Food Truth getting recognition at this level, that our voice can really make a difference, and that BonAppetit is very willing to work with students and address our concerns. This is just the beginning of an exciting campaign that has the potential to create change on a large scale. Way to go, Taylor!

Foodtruth Week of Green Wars!

2010-02-12T11:47:00.000-05:00

After weeks of planning, 7th Week of Winter Term is Foodtruth Week of Green Wars! We challenge Carleton students to reduce their energy consumption by cutting out meat from their diets, reducing their use of trays and eating more consciously!
On Wednesday February 17th, join us for a panel discussion called "My Food Story." We will be joined by head Bon Appetit Chef Mike Delchambre and a representative of Thousand Hills Cattle Company.

Hope to see you there!

Exciting Government memo about local food systems

2009-08-31T13:12:00.002-04:00

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan just sent out a memo discussing “harnessing USDA rural development programs to support local and regional food systems,” which goes beyond fantasies and straight to how this system will be created and funded. Then she starts sounding a bit like the Northfield community kitchen group. She writes:

Imagine an NGO receiving USDA grant money to construct a community kitchen where farmers drop off produce and families join cooking classes that teach about healthy eating while everyone prepares fresh nutritious meals to bring home…Imagine a community using USDA money to construct an open-sided structure to house a farmers market…Imagine a school using USDA loan money to set up cold storage as part of a larger effort to retrofit the school cafeteria to buy produce directly from farmers and return cooking capacity for school lunch…Imagine…

EAT THE LAWN!

2009-05-29T12:52:00.003-04:00

There's a new garden on campus. Here's what people think:

Shout has some commentary and pictures.

The Admissions Office made a great video and took some more great garden action shots.

FOOD TRUTH WEEK 2009!

2009-05-29T12:49:00.002-04:00

It was big, it was bold, it was beautiful.

Here's what the Carletonian had to say. We'll be in touch soon with our thoughts.

The Future of Food

2009-04-25T16:36:00.003-04:00

Check out this 3-part interview series with Vandana Shiva:

The Future of Food

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Fair Food Across Borders

2009-04-06T12:17:00.003-04:00

Last Friday, Melody Gonzalez from Fair Food Across Borders joined Food Truth for a powerful potluck presentation about conditions for farmworkers in northern Mexico, and related issues in the United States. Many Food Truth members and Bon Appetit manager Debi Wright attended in support of this critical issue. At a time when the food movement is getting schwanky press as Michelle Obama plants a vegetable garden and "organic" and "local" have moved beyond buzzwords, Food Truth was interesting in pursuing it's name---the truth of how our food system is operating, which includes the details that are too often hidden or unpublicized.

Melody showed the film, Paying the Price: Migrant Workers in the Toxic Fields of Sinaloa, which follows a group of families from their homes in southern Mexico, through their 30+ hour bus ride to northern Mexico where they (the whole family, small children included) work on a gigantic industrial farm, risking their health because of toxic pesticide fumigation, long hours, and poor access to adequate nutrition or education. and continued with a discussion. Gonzalez highlighted the fact that Mexican families are not just immigrating to the US to find work, rather, there are great amount of internal migration within the country as families seek work. Along with the devastating conditions that the workers and their children face in the fields, I was most struck by the landscape of the farm in Sinaloa---we may think Iowa and even the land surrounding Carleton are monocrop agribusiness, but at least there are windbreaks here and there, a handful of trees dotting the horizon. There was nothing but crops in the images of the farms of Sinaloa, miles and miles forever into the distance.

Representatives from Fair Food Twin Cities joined Melody, and Food Truth will be looking to work with them on actions and a longer-running, recently announced Student-Farmworker Alliance campaign called Dining with Dignity, calling college and university students to stand in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as they pressure Aramark, Sodexo and Compass food service providers to purchase tomatoes harvested in fair conditions, for a fair price.

Melody Gonzalez's speaking tour is a sort of kick-off for Fair Food Across Borders, which is aiming to build international solidarity around making visible the human rights abuses suffered by migrant farmworkers in Mexican agribusiness camps. We look forward to partnering with the organization in their upcoming awareness raising and campaigns.

A Sense of Wonder: 2 interviews with Rachel Carson

2009-02-27T18:37:00.002-05:00

http://www.asenseofwonderfilm.com/

It would be so cool to show this film at Carleton...

Grow Girl! Women in Agriculture

2009-02-25T15:52:00.001-05:00

On February 18, Northfield and Carleton Food Truth women gathered after dinner for a dessert potluck and discussion on women and agriculture. Students shared homemade fudge bars while community organizers, cooks, farmers, and mothers shared their views and experiences. What are the joys of farming as a woman? What are the challenges? What would you pass down to the next generation of farmers?

Women farmers are not so different from their male counterparts. They are strong farmers and hold a wealth of food and farm wisdom. These women are passionate about nourishing those around them and passionate about food. They describe nourishment from ‘hands in the soil to plate’ as a most rewarding life work.

The farming world, like the larger society, is not free of gender biases. Women have historically been less acknowledged and visible than men farmers. Further challenges have resulted from the growth of farm size in the United States because the importance of agricultural machinery has grown and continues to be engineered to fit men.

Farming does not have to require big and expensive machinery. Rae Rusnak, widow, mother, and farmer of L&R Poultry and Produce, stated at the Minnesota Sustainable Farming Association Annual Conference (2/21/08) that people of all shapes and forms can farm. It is true – different people will think about and approach farming differently but in the end, anyone can grow food and grow it well. Indeed, woman farmers are becoming prominent movers in our country’s agricultural revolution. The evening gathering ended with activism. We collectively wrote a letter, urging Michelle Obama, to make the creation of a more sustainable food system and White House Victory Garden a priority. This will signal our country’s potential to grow locally and change our food policy.

The evening was wonderful because it was intergenerational, a passing on insight from generation to generation, from woman to woman, from seasoned to aspiring farmer. Oral culture has and will always be a part of agriculture – it is the best way to capture the nuances and experiences that come along with working and living on the land. It also creates the sense of community that makes farming both an individual effort and collective enterprise.

Grow girl: Women in Agriculture Discussion

2009-02-18T23:08:00.010-05:00

"It keeps coming back to women"

"They're growing food everywhere, all over the world, with their babies on their backs"

"we want to raise EVERYBODY up"

"I feel detached every day from what's grounded in the earth--it's important for us to get our hands back into the ground"

"we're raising the bar"

"we're not going to be afraid, because it's OUR food."

Tell Mars and Hershey's to sign the Non-GM Beet Sugar Registry

2009-02-12T16:26:00.003-05:00

http://ga3.org/campaign/Registry?rk=d1xBC9FaXX2WE

The People's Garden

2009-02-12T14:04:00.002-05:00

Oh. So. Exciting.

VILSACK ESTABLISHES THE PEOPLE'S GARDEN PROJECT ON BICENTENNIAL OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH

Check it out.

2009-02-11T09:08:00.001-05:00

the organic revolution in campus dining

2009-02-10T20:26:00.004-05:00

this is a piece that i posted that's about food truth and our food revolution on the 'organic on the green' website

BEST JOB EVER.

2009-02-10T10:06:00.003-05:00

Applications are now available to spend your summer outdoors in beautiful Northfield, growing and tending bounteous plots of veggies.

Applications available on the Shrinking Footprints blog.

And worry not! If you can't be in Northfield, there are still oh-so-many farms to work on. Check out:

ATTRA

Organic Volunteers

serve your country food

Seed Peace

2009-02-06T09:55:00.004-05:00

As a follow-up to the post below, this looks like a pretty amazing organization, working for peace in the Middle East through restoring heirloom varieties and growing practices:

Growing Seed--Heritage Wheat Conservancy

And check out this article about them at the Rodale Institute.

Next Step--White House Lawn...

2009-02-03T01:08:00.001-05:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29cook.html?ref=us

Food Truthy White House Chef

2009-02-03T00:46:00.002-05:00

Obama loves da good eats....
Sam Kass as White House Chef is all about Food Truth.

All the casualties of conflict

2009-02-02T16:11:00.003-05:00

In tune with all the recent discussion on campus of Israel/Palestine and specifically the recent and ongoing conflict in Gaza, an noteworthy piece from The Guardian:

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

Officials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves agriculture in the region in ruins

Peter Beaumont in Gaza
The Observer, Sunday 1 February 2009
Article history

Gaza's 1.5 million people are facing a food crisis as a result of the destruction of great areas of farmland during the Israeli invasion.

According to the World Food Programme, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and Palestinian officials, between 35% and 60% of the agriculture industry has been wrecked by the three-week Israeli attack, which followed two years of economic siege.

Christine van Nieuwenhuyse, the World Food Programme's country director, said: "We are hearing that 60% of the land in the north - where the farming was most intensive - may not be exploitable again. It looks to me like a disaster. It is not just farmland, but poultry as well.

"When we have given a food ration in Gaza, it was never a full ration but to complement the diet. Now it is going to be almost impossible for Gaza to produce the food it needs for the next six to eight months, assuming that the agriculture can be rehabilitated. We will give people a full ration."

The FAO estimates that 13,000 families who depend directly on herding, farming and fishing have suffered significant damage. "Before the blockade and the attack," said Ahmad Sourani, director of the Agricultural Development Association of Gaza, which runs programmes with charities such as Britain's Christian Aid, "Gaza produced half of its own food. Now that has declined by 25%. In addition, a quarter of the population depends on agriculture for income. What we have seen in large areas of farmland is the destruction of all means of life.

"We have seen a creeping process of farmers being forced out of the buffer zone around Gaza's border. Before 2000 we could approach and farm within 50m of the fence. After Israel's evacuation of the settlements in 2005, the Israeli army imposed a buffer of 300m. Although it is elastic, now there are areas, depending on the situation, where farmers cannot reach their farms in safety within an area of over a kilometre. It is indirect confiscation by fear. My fear is that, if it remains, it will become de facto. Bear in mind that 30% of Gaza's most productive land is within that buffer zone."

The wholesale destruction of farms, greenhouses, dairy parlours, livestock, chicken coops and orchards has damaged food production, which was already hit by the blockade.

Buildings heavily damaged during Israel's Operation Cast Lead included much of its agricultural infrastructure. The Ministry of Agriculture was targeted, the agriculture faculty at al-Azhar university in Beit Hanoun largely destroyed, and the offices of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees in Zaitoun - which provides cheap food for the poor - ransacked and vandalised by soldiers who left abusive graffiti.

Although international and local officials are still gathering figures, they believe that scores, perhaps hundreds, of wells and water sources have been damaged and several hundred greenhouses have been levelled, as well as severe damage inflicted on 60,000-75,000 dunums of Gaza's 175,000 dunums (44,000 acres) of farmable land.

As well as the physical damage done by Israeli bulldozers, bombing and shelling, land has been contaminated by munitions, including white phosphorous, burst sewerage pipes, animal carcasses and even asbestos used in roofing. In many places, the damage is extreme. In Jabal al-Rayas, once a thriving farming community, every building has been knocked down, and even the cattle killed and left to lie rotting in the fields.

In al-Atatra, Ahmad Hassan, 65, the overseer of an orchard that once had hundreds of lemon and orange trees, surveyed an area flattened by bulldozers. "This was the well," he said, showing a pile of bulldozed concrete. "We can clear the ground in two weeks. Then what? The well is gone. The pump has been destroyed. And where will the trees come from to replant the land?"

Van Nieuwenhuyse said: "Already, the price of meat has tripled since the Israeli operation began. What is more worrying is the situation over vegetables. Protein we can help with, but before this there were already deficiencies in the diet. Now they will have to rely on Israel."

It was a view echoed by Hassan Abu Etah, the deputy agriculture minister in Gaza. "It has all been hugely damaged. And it affects all of Gaza, not simply the farmers. We produced some of what we needed. It makes you wonder whether they wanted to change Gaza from production to consumption."

In the heavily damaged village of Khuza'a, near Khan Younis, Salam Najar surveyed the no-go zone that extends from the last houses in the village to the border fence where Israeli farmland begins. "Most of the families here have farmed that side. Now no one feels safe to go there. They have destroyed it all."

White House Farmer!

2009-02-01T10:43:00.003-05:00

The results are in. Based on Michael Pollans' suggestion in the NY Times in an open letter to the President this past fall, many farmers from around the country were nominated, and the people have spoken.

Check It Out!

2009-01-13T21:15:00.000-05:00

Worried about the bees....

2008-12-03T00:33:00.002-05:00

Photo essay looking at commercial beekeepers in the greater context of colony collapse disorder... made me think of Blake and Jim and Food Truth... and I'm worried about the bees and the integral role they play in our food system.
http://katekunath.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33%3Astung-p2&catid=10&Itemid=1
plus--unrelated--her "American Show" pictures are fascinating... the people really do look like their show rabbits...

2008-11-18T00:41:00.004-05:00

Fair Trade and the Global Food Economy

a panel discussion on Tuesday, November 11th at 7:30pm in the Library Athenaeum.

Should our global market be based on free trade or fair trade principles? Are fair trade products the more ethical products? How is our current economy affecting the fair trade market?

- Lee Wallace, Director of Peace Coffee, a company founded as a project to prove fair trade is a viable business model
- Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, co-founder of Peace Coffee, and currently executive director of the Latino Enterprise Center
- Erik Esse, Director of the Minneapolis-based Local Fair Trade Network
- Mike Hemesath, Chair of the Carleton economics department, professor of international trade and health economics, and director of the Ethical Inquiry at Carleton (EthIC) program

Fair Trade snacks provided. Sponsored by Food Truth & EthIC

Carleton College News Press Release

Northfield.org Press Release

easy vegan chocolate chip cookies

2008-10-28T11:26:00.002-04:00

i'm glad that everyone gobbled up the cookies during last night's meeting. here is the (incredibly easy) recipe, for anyone to use and share:

ingredients:
2 cups unbleached flour
2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
chocolate or carob chips (i used sunspire); use as many as you like (i used a ton)
1 cup raw sugar (get it from the co-op in bulk! 365 vegan cane sugar works well too.)
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup water
cinnamon to taste

preheat oven to 350 degrees. in a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon (if desired). add chips. make a well in the center of the dry mixture and set aside.
in a medium size bowl, mix sugar and oil. mix thoroughly. add the vanilla and water. mix thoroughly. add the wet ingredients into the dry, pouring wet into the center well. mix ingredients thoroughly but be careful not to overwork mixture.
use hands to mold dough into small balls. the dough may be a touch crumbly, but this is not a concern. just make sure that you make fairly tight dough balls. if too crumbly to mold, add a splash more oil. place dough balls onto ungreased cookie sheets (2 sheets are preferable).
put in oven for 5 minutes, and then rotate sheets 180 degrees. bake for another six minutes and then check their consistency. they should be fairly soft (appear under-done), but firm to the touch. bottoms should be slightly browned and easily removed from sheet. if too soft, bake for another two minutes.
let cool for ten minutes. cookies should firm while cooling, but remain tender and delicious.
serves roughly two-dozen.
enjoy!

FOOD TRUTH ICONOGRAPHY

2008-09-30T01:18:00.001-04:00

Testing, Testing

2008-09-30T00:55:00.003-04:00

And so, a Food Truth Blogspot is born. Here's to good posts, good friends, and good eats.

Your Loving Blog Editor,
Erinrose