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Prime And Choice Beef Comparison

Prime, Choice, Select Understanding USDA Beef Grades

Learn how USDA beef grades work and what it really means when a steak or beef roast is labeled Prime, Choice, or Select.

Elroy Sparta Bike Trail

Walking the Green Path: A Tunnel Along the Path

Running a restaurant at the forefront of a fair wage campaign can feel like traveling through a long dark tunnel.

Natural Food Labels

What Does the Word Natural Really Mean on Food Labels?

Lots of food companies use the word natural to describe their products, but what does natural really mean and can it help you eat healthier?

Cliff Jumper Featured

Walking the Green Path: Jumping off the Cliff

For Dan, moving his cafe from accepting tips to not accepting tips can feel like jumping off a cliff.

Super Bowl Eatsl

How to Do Some Good with Your Super Bowl Party

What kind of impact could we have if everyone used their Super Bowl parties to have fun and fight hunger?

Darrold teaching class

Sunrise Flour Mill’s Search for Better Flour

To be a better baker Darrold Glanville needed the best flour he could find, his search for better flour led he and Marty to start Sunrise Flour Mill.

Community garden at butter

Walking the Green Path: Being Counter Cultural

At Butter, we try to be a daily advertisement for efforts to build community and restore our earth through the connections we make with each other, our food, and the world around us. Now, more than ever, this seems like a counter-cultural message.

Water from the creek flows into the Mississippi river

Walking the Green Path: A Little Water Goes a Long Way

Living in an urban area, we may not always realize how much groundwater we lose to runoff. Since restaurants are big water users it’s important to see what we can do at Butter to help keep our water clean.

Better Eating with Bittman and Pollan

Better Eating with Bittman and Pollan

At the beginning of the year, I did what most Americans do; I made a resolution to clean up the food in my kitchen and to eat better. Over the next few months, I will be writing about the big ideas in Bittman and Pollan’s books and sharing how I’ve brought them into my kitchen.

Alex Gibney and Michael Pollan

Review: Cooked, Michael Pollan’s New Netflix Series

Cooked, a new documentary by Michael Pollan and Alex Gibney on Netflix is a beautifully filmed series about the role cooking plays in what makes us human.If you’re interested in seeing a show about food where you actually learn something new and are entertained Cooked is worth watching.

Farmer's market carrots

Carrot vs. Carrot: Simplifying the Conversation about Organics and GMOs

Recently I was teaching a group of people I work with what organics, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), rBST, artificial flavors, and colors are and why we are starting to talk about them as a company. My purpose was not to scare anyone or to take a political stance; I just wanted to share facts.

Regional Cuisine Map

Why Midwesterners Should Put Down Their Casserole Dishes and Create a Regional Cuisine

I’ve been thinking about what it means to have a regional cuisine and where they come from. It can be a touchy subject coming from Minnesota and the Midwest, especially when everyone thinks our regional cuisine is hotdish and lutefisk.

The FDA ban will take place in 2018

FDA Bans Trans Fat, What Will Happen to America’s Favorite Foods?

What does the FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) ruling that artificial trans fat is not generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use in human food mean for what we eat?

It seems like there is always a question about eating eggs

The great egg debate, helpful or harmful to our health?

Even though eggs are one of the most versatile ingredients, it seems like people often wonder if eggs are good or bad for them because of their high cholesterol content.

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