This article contains downloadable recipes and virtual cooking classes that pair with our Friends of the Children grocery bags! It will be updated on a weekly basis, so be sure to keep checking it out.
Become a food detective and carefully gather research about an ingredient in your home, then share your findings with the Green Plate Special community by adding a page to our Green Plate Special Community Cookbook! Maia, our education director, will walk you step- by-step through this process.
“For me, fermentation is a health regimen, a gourmet art, a multicultural adventure, a form of activism, and a spiritual path, all rolled into one.” --Sandor Katz, Wild Fermentation
Straight from Maia's kitchen! This post contains a video in which our education director, Maia Bernstein, shows us a few fermentation projects that she's been working on and explains what makes them bubble. Preserve fruits and veggies in your own home today using the recipes included.
Green Plate Special's Family Bread & Butter Day on March 28th was cancelled to keep flattening that COVID-19 curve, but we still want you to enjoy your own Family Bread & Butter Day at home! This article walks you through a brief history of grains, the different parts of a whole grain, the basic ingredients of bread, the history and science of making butter, and bread and butter recipes that you can enjoy in your own kitchen.