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Cooking Up A Story is a weekly show about food and people. Designed from the ground up for the web, this video blog site offers stories about real people and their special connections to food. This site contains stories, recipes, a place for community, and more.
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Seeds of Life: Beta Vulgaris
Cooking Up a Story: Food News Beta Vulgaris, the latin name for the beet species, includes the sugar beet, table beet, and swiss chard varieties. Although each variety is grown for different agricultural purposes, botanically, they are the same plan...
Christmas Date Loaf: Family Fruitcake Treasure
It was December 1965 when I married Harvey in Illinois. He was originally from a small town in Texas, called Crockett (yes, Davy Crockett once spent the night there – as the rumor goes – but that’s another story). For our first Christmas toget...
Seeds of Life: David Vs. Goliath
Cooking Up a Story: Food News Center for Food Safety, et al. v. Thomas J. Vilsack, et al. In an ongoing David versus Goliath legal battle, Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder in Philomath, Oregon, along with the plaintiffs listed in this lawsuit, ...
Manual Fruit Tree Pollination-Dusting-Part 3
“WWOOF! The Movie” is about a collective of organizations that go by the acronym WWOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. My wife and I have traveled around the globe for the last 5 months and videotaped our experiences within th...
Making Berry Delicious Pies
Cooking Up a Story: Stories Willamette Valley Marionberry Frozen Pie Those frozen pies that seem to fill the supermarket frozen display bins, where do they come from, and how are these frozen fruit pies made. We discovered one company, the Willamette...
Homemade Pie Crust
The baking season is upon us, with Thanksgiving just ahead. In this video, Catherine Schon, of Sassafras Catering, demonstrates how to make a tasty homemade pie crust. Now for some of you this will be old hat, but for many who are rediscovering the ...
