Meatless Mondays The Meatless Monday campaign was launched in 2003 in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Centre for a Liveable Future– and now, the “cut out meat one day a week” program is active in 23 countries and growing! It’s good for your health and good for the planet! [...]
keep your carbon footprint small when catering! AS MUCH OF THIS MENU AS POSSIBLE IS FROM ONTARIO! these specials are for both leed lunches & regular daily orders salads green bean, field tomato & fresh thyme salad spinach, poached pears & walnuts with yogurt-goat cheddar dressing Quinoa tabouleh with fresh Coriander Ontario Barley [...]
Spring Update From LISA SHAMAI CUISINIERE A few weeks ago marked 10 years of helping organize & feed around 250 Women for International Women’s Day. I hope to continue this tradition for another 10 years and more! IF you’d like to read more & see some pictures, please go to http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=400310719609 I’ve been spending a [...]
It is very clear that hauling food from far away places works against us. Produce is picked unripe, then chemicals & gases are used to “ripen” them while being transported for days or weeks at a time, all so they can sit pretty on shelves in supermarkets for shoppers to choose the “nicest ones”. We [...]
Lisa Shamai recently lead a canning workshop at Ralph Thorton centre and the event was featured on their blog… Last night local chef Lisa Shamai and about 12 inexperienced canners put the Betsy Swift Community Kitchen to good use You probably remember your parents or grandparents making jars of preserves, pickles or jams in the days [...]