Ms Cook
A Key Ingredient
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Once I heard someone say, “I have all the friends that I want or need”. Wow – au contraire, mon frere. The longer that I live - I find that new friends are, to coin a term that my Grandfather used, the vital component for ‘life-force’ renewal. A new acquaintance can be the impetus for rebirth
Spinach Evolution
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Having experienced a steady TV diet of Tarzan and Shirley Temple reruns as an impressionable youngster, I was practical enough to figure that living in a tree house while singing and dancing all day was probably not going to manifest in my life. Nonetheless, at the end of each viewing, inspired
Uncommon good works from Common Threads
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Well, if it had been a contest for the best salad dressing, I believe that I might have had a shot, but alas - it was an auction and both the prize and the charity were my dream. My dream, but my daughter’s reality…. Last year, she was enticed away from a beloved teaching profession to work for
A bean barrister’s case
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Everything I learned about the bean, I did not learn at my Mother’s side, but she shoved me in the right direction with personal demonstrations in the category of repetition. Baked beans were a standard side dish from my Mother’s kitchen for many of my formative years. They appeared as an
TOGA fans out
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Intrigued by conversations about the event with my adroit farmer friends, I decided to invite myself and attend the annual TOGA conference held at the downtown Nashville campus of Tennessee State University last Saturday. TOGA, a five-year-old organization, stands for Tennessee Organic Growers
Welcome to my blog: Ms Cook is enthusiastically committed to the discovery and enjoyment of locally grown and crafted foods. As a child, she would take on an alter ego and pretend to be “ms cook”, appreciating farm to table meals in her Grandparents’ kitchen or chatting with her parents over a bowl of homemade ice cream. As an adult, she awakened to the fact that locally initiated sources of meat, eggs, dairy and produce had all but been replaced by massive shipments from very far away.
The outcome - “Ms Cook” lives again. She researches the sparkling flavors of foods that are produced nearby and are prepared as soon as possible. Ms Cook shares the food sources around her that have enriched her life in community and serves up adventures with local food producing friends who are committed to that same quality she celebrated back in the day of “ms cook”. She tells a tale of real food with recipes that will benefit the health of the family and the community.
Ms Cook writes a weekly food column for The Columbia Daily Herald, Columbia, Tennessee and teaches seasonal cooking classes: Loco For Local, at Columbia State Community College. She also contributed in the development and production of Provisions and Politics, a national winner of the Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards.
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