Host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Erin Baumgartner, Co-Founder and CEO of Family Dinner, about how this farmers' market delivery service brings great local food to customer's homes. Erin describes how this company seeks to reimagine America's food system, creating efficiencies that reduce food waste while bringing high quality products from local farms and food purveyors to customers.

In this episode, we cover:

• The vision behind Family Dinner.
• Why the current food system generates so much food waste.
• How Family Dinner uses data to create more efficient connections between food producers and customers.
• Some examples of the products available through family dinner.
• Tips for finding great local food in your area.
• How the pandemic underscored the value of a strong local food system.
• Ideas for how to turn scraps of vegetables into a quick meal like a frittata, or to save them for making veggie stock.

Host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Amy Angelli from The Copper Table about ideas for what to make with the latest CSA vegetable share pickup of the season. Amy shares recipes and tips for yellow zucchini and rainbow chard, as well as bringing us some knowledge about scapes based on her experience on a local organic farm.

This episode covers:

• How growing up around a lot of farms in the Pacific Northwest helped Amy develop an early appreciation for local food.
• Recipes and tips for yellow zucchini and rainbow chard.
• What is yellow zucchini?
• Information about garlic scapes - what they are, and what to do with garlic scapes.
• Why early fall is such a great time for local food in the Pacific Northwest.

In Episode 10, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat and Social Capital Inc. talks with Tamika R. Francis about the interplay of food, culture and identify. She also shares about her plans to support local food entrepreneurs with DutchPot.app.

• The intersection of food, culture and identify.
• How Food & Folklore explores belonging, identify and the immigrant experiences and highlights underrepresented food traditions.
• A special meal at Tamika's grandfather's farm that planted a seed for her future interest in food.
• The vibrant local food scene in Portland, Maine.
• Needs of food entrepreneurs that DutchPot.app is seeking to address.
• How the idea of social capital and building community connect to Tamika's (and my) interest in food.

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks about recipe ideas for his latest CSA vegetable share of the season with Camilla Mann, along with wine pairing ideas. Camilla talks about how she encourages people to use the local ingredients they have along with how she developed an interest in wine pairing. She also shares about the upcoming Wine Pairing Weekend event.

In this episode we cover:

• How Camilla got interested in cooking while living in Rome.
• Her focus on teaching processes that enable one to easily adapt recipes.
• Ideas for wine pairings with fresh vegetables.
• Some local wineries near Monterey, California.
• Information about tomatillos and how to prepare them.
• An idea for a recipe with whole fish and tomatillo sauce.
• Details on the upcoming "CSA challenge" wine pairing weekend event.
• How a CFA fish share is similar to a CSA vegetable share.

In Episode 8, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks about CSA shares with Lacey Arnold from Warner Farm. Lacy provides great background on the benefits of CSAs for farms and consumers alike. She breaks down the specifics of how the Warner Farm CSA works, as well as providing a lot of good general information about how CSAs operate. David has been participating in Warner Farm's CSA for several years, so this was a perfect way to provide more background about CSAs.

This episode covers:

• What it means to be an agritainment farm.
• How the Harvie online system provides for more choice to customers
• Logistics of how the Warner Farm CSA program works, including a variety of plan options.
• Different styles of CSA styles, including box CSA, market style CSAs, home delivery and pick your own
• How you can sign up for Warner Farm's CSA at any point throughout the season
• Tips for making the most of a CSA share
• How freezing and pickling can preserve your CSA produce
• The suggestion to reach out and talk to your farmers!

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Eric Samuelson from Eat Like No One Else about eating local food while traveling. Eric has a lot of experience on the topic, as has has spent two years criss-crossing the United States in a camper with his family! He shares tips on visiting local farmers markets and finding local food in grocery stores.

Additional topics covered include:

• Tapping into Eric's vast knowledge of different varieties of apples.
• How a picky eater can get more adventurous with the foods they try.
• Tips for preparing food while traveling in a camper.

In Episode 6, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat brainstorms about his 4th CSA share pickup with Marwin Brown from Food Fidelity. Marwin also shared his take on "Modern Soul Food", and many great tips for efficiently putting healthy food on the table with locally sourced ingredients.

In this episode we cover:

• The concept that "soul food is the original fusion food".
• The plant based foundation of traditional cuisine from across the African diaspora.
• Flavorful recipes for green beans.
• A delicious idea for a kale salad.
• Tasty ways to prepare cabbage.
• Tips for Sunday meal prep to set you up for flavorful cooking throughout the week.
• Cooking for a family with both vegetarians and omnivores.
• How Marwin combines his passion for music and cooking.

In Episode 5, we chat about our third CSA pickup of the season with Ashley Elizabeth from Sweetpea Lifestyle. Ashley shares her recipe ideas for broccoli and kale, and how cooking with local food comes naturally to her based on her upbringing in Asheville, North Carolina. We also made sure to get some great hosting tips from her!

In this episode we cover:

• How to make broccoli steaks
• Cooking kale as you would collard greens
• Enjoying gem lettuce this time of year
• Learning that kale is a very common crop in the Appalachian region
• Asheville as a great city for farm to table cooking
• Ways to make hosting a gathering less stressful
• Ashley's tips for cooking collards

And in the show notes, host David Crowley shares what he made with the week's CSA farm share, including his delicious kale pesto recipe!

In Episode 4, host David Crowley digs into the second CSA pickup of the season with Amy Katz from Veggies Save the Day. Amy shares ideas for sugar snap peas and rainbow chard recipes. We also had a chance to chat about ways to use fennel and how Amy bases much of her cooking on a vegan Mediterranean diet.

Amy begins by sharing how making food and shopping for produce with her mother got her interested in cooking, along with her love of vegetables. Some good ideas here for parents looking to encourage their kids to eat healthy!

Topics covered in this show include:

• What is rainbow chard?
• How many vegetables can be enjoyed raw or cooked.
• Recipes for sugar snap peas.
• How to prepare fennel.
• Growing your own vegetables at home with a hydroponic system.

In episode 3, host David Crowley chats with Molly Madigan Pisula about enjoying local food for July 4th weekend, exploring a possible menu that leans into ingredients she finds near her home in Maryland. We also talk about the seasonal recipe focus of Molly's website, Vanilla Bean Cuisine.

Molly also has some great pointers for making the most of your visit to the farmer's market. And be sure to listen to her tips for preparing corn on the cob!