For Food's Sake

Chef Kevin Gillespie Why is sourcing local and or organic produce important to you & your restaurant?   It’s important to ensure that we use the freshest products possible at Woodfire Grill. It makes sense to support our local farmers and serve the best tasting food to our customers. If you were a farmer what would [...]

Q&A with Steve Esau of Niman Ranch What’s your definition of sustainable food? Definition of Sustainable: Ask 10 different people and you will get 11 different answers as the first person will want to change their answer by the time they hear the 10th person’s definition. But to tell you the truth, that’s okay because [...]

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes, What’d life be without home grown Tomatoes, There’s only two things that money can’t buy: That’s true love and home grown tomatoes. Lyrics to Blue Dogs Band With the Blue Dogs Band lyrics ringing in my ear “There’s only two things money can’t buy, That’s true love and home [...]

By Matthew Welden  My left hand fiddles with the button that rolls down the window; the sweet, warm air laden with honeysuckle dances in my hair as the 1980 Sedan DeVille sombers down Georgia Highway 16. I am getting that sticky feeling on the back of my legs as the sun glares down on the [...]

Q & A with Farmer What prepared you to be a farmer?I basically grew up on the farm located across the street and spent a lot of time in the fields.  Some of my fondest memories from childhood are picking bushels of corn in the morning and grilling some of them for lunch in the [...]

Q & A with Chef Nick Why is sourcing local and or organic produce important to you & your restaurant? I truly believe that as a cook and as a chef its my job to help introduce local and organic products to the guest.  They come to my restaurant w/ full trust that the food [...]

Family Pickin’ Connect with the Earth and visit PICK-YOUR-OWN Farms in Georgia Enota Mountain Retreat 1000 Highway 180, Hiawassee, GA 30546 Dr. Suan Freed, 706.896.9966 enota@enota.com Enota is a 60-acre sustainable organic farm,campground, and retreat center on ancient Cherokee land in the beautiful Georgia Mountains, surrounded by the Chattahoochee National Forest. Our propertycontains waterfalls, crystal-clear [...]

Alpharetta Farmers Market Located under an old oak tree in historic downtown Alpharetta, this market is open Saturdays, 8am-1pm, starting in late April through October. Named “Best Saturday Morning Excursion” in 2007 by Atlanta Magazine. Address City parking lot behind Smokejack Grill Alpharetta, GA 30004 Name: Paula Guilbeau Tel: 770.844.1462 Email: hansonfarms@comcast.net Website: www.alpharettafarmersmarket.com College Park [...]

By Dana Nahai 5,000 years of history has offered this world quite a bit of tea. It is considered as essential as salt for many, and we often forget its importance in this land of gastronomic abundance. People have been harvesting, trading, and fighting over these leaves since the birth of written history, and the [...]

By Amelia Pane Schaffner of  Z Tasty life  My kids are good eaters…but I am lucky. Most kids tend to be picky eaters. That said, one thing I find that all kids have in common (my kids included) is a craving for something sweet after the main meal. So, why not “bribe” them to finish dinner [...]