Eating Local with Deborah Madison
Chef and popular cookbook author Deborah Madison has long been a champion of eating local, shopping fresh and visiting farmers’ markets. With nine cookbooks already to her credit, she is currently working on her latest, What We Eat When We Eat Alone, with her painter husband, Patrick McFarlin. Although it will have some recipes, this one will mostly focus on people’s stories.
In a recent issue of Sunset magazine, Deborah chatted about the importance of buying local.
The beginner’s way to shop farmers’ markets: Ask for tastes. Farmers enjoy sharing information - a lot of them even hand out recipes.
What bugs her: The functionalist food approach, where food is looked at only for its nutrition content. What really matters is finding the ways and means to have good, well-grown, local food at our fingertips - that is, food that tastes good.
Photo from DeborahMadison.com.
