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Category: Food

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Bulk Cooking With Cindy Ewing

“Happy Homemaker Cindy”

presents
BULK COOKING CLASS

Domestic Saving Specialist Cindy Ewing will demonstrate how to incorporate bulk cooking into your busy life with easy tips and family friendly recipes.

Saturday, September 24th
2-4 p.m.
Library Meeting Room

Advance registration is required.
Please contact the Reference Department at 294-7171
or by email - reference@wrightlibrary.org

Cindy Ewing is a domestic saving specialist,
coupon pro, blogger and workshop leader.
Her popular website is www.happyhomemakercindy.com.

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Categories: Food, Program, Cooking

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Try a Little Wine and Cheese

Alig, Peter.   The Everything Guide to Wine: All You Need to Know about Buying, Storing, Serving, and Enjoying the world's most remarkable wines.

Boteler, Alison.   The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Wine: How to Use Wine to Take Simple Recipes from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Dornenburg, Andrew.   What to Drink with What You Eat: the Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea -- Even Water -- Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers.

History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet

Jacobsen, Rowan.   American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, & Fields.

Kaufelt, Rob.   The Murray's Cheese Handbook: More than 300 of the World's Best Cheeses.

Kessler, Brad.   Goat Song: a Seasonal LIfe, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese.

Losh, Chris.   Enjoying Wine: A Complete Guide to Understanding, Choosing and Drinking Wine.

Milton, Giles.   Edward Trencom's Nose: a Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese.

Old, Marnie.   He Said Beer, She Said Wine.

Oldman, Mark.   Oldman's Brave New World of Wine.

Siler, Julia Flynn.   The House of Mondavi: the Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

Teague, Lettie.   Educating Peter: How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference between Cabernet and Merlot, or, How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert.

Wallace, Benjamin.   The Billionaire's Vinegar: the Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine.

Werlin, Laura.   Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials: an Insider's Guide to Buying & Serving Cheese.

Wolf, Clark.   American Cheeses: the Best Regional, Artisan, & Farmhouse Cheeses, Who Makes Them, & Where to Find Them.

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Categories: Food, Book Lists, entertaining

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MAY 27, 2008

Eat Local

Gardens are producing and it's time to take advantage of local offerings. Here are some resources for finding locally produced food and for producing your own.

Miami Valley Grown: Local Food Initiative led by the Montgomery County Extension Office

The Ohio State University Extension provides a wealth of information on growing and preparing food in the Ohioline database.

The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association offers a Good Earth Guide to Ohio Organic Farms and Gardens.

Ohio Proud, a program of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, has a Farmers' Market Directory.

Montgomery County Farmers' Markets

2nd Street Market
Wergerzyn Gardens Foundation Farmers' Markets

When: July-October
Contact: 277-6545
Where :
Courthouse Square
Dayton, OH
Monday afternoons

Moose Lodge #1645
2110 E. Central Ave.
Miamisburg, OH 45342
Wednesday afternoons

Greene County Farmers' Markets

Greene County Farm Market Association

When: Seasonal (June - ), Saturdays 8:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
Contact: 372-3281, 675-2464
Where: Kmart parking lot, Indian Ripple Rd. Beavercreek across from The Green

Fairborn Farmers' Market
Xenia Farmers' Market

Additional Resources

LocalHarvest
OrganicAuthority.com
Organic Consumers Association
Slow Food International

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Category: Food

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FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Now We're Cookin'

Here at the library we love food. Almost anything is an excuse to eat and we even make up reasons. With the availability of recipes on the Internet we'll never run out of ideas for what to make. Here are some of our favorite Web sites for food. Tell us what you think by leaving a comment.

Allrecipes - 40,000 recipes!

CHOW - The name says it.

Cooksrecipes.com - This site includes a cooking dictionary and cookbook reviews.

Epicurious.com - The online home of Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines

The Food Network - All the deliciousness from all those food programs on one Web site.

RecipeSource - Organized by ethnicity as well as by type of dish.

VegCooking - Vegetarian recipes and more!

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