Must-Haves for Eating The Good Life - a list by janinemaclachlan

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Chicago's Green City Market

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The way a farmers market should be, under the trees in Lincoln Park, the growers themselves staff their stations and tell you everything you need to know about their growing practices. Live music, demonstrations by spiffy chefs (including me) and lots to nibble. Great quality food, and a great sense of community. could spend the entire morning there. And sometimes I do.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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Capriole Farmstead Chevre

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Farmstead cheese: that’s the cheese that’s made right on the farm where the animals are enjoying a happy life on pasture.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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Uplands Cheese Company

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Another favorite farmstead cheese maker.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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Huilerie J. Leblanc Pine Nut Oil

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I go to Paris to visit their postage-stamp sized shop in the 6th arrondisement, but it’s available online. Drizzle it on popcorn and feel decadent.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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Slow Food

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Slow Food, the organization that encourages people to eat sitting together at a table, enjoying local food produced with care for the earth and each other. Members from around the globe send farmer delegates to its bi-annual Terra Madre conference.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer

51 people recommended this item

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I have a new one in cobalt blue, but I also have my grand mother’s old one that still works great.

Updated Oct 23, 2006

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Raspberries from Blue Skies Farm

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I phone ahead to ask for “seconds,” the berries that are only-slightly imperfect, and use them for raspberry cilantro sorbet.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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Seedling Fruit Farm

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My friend Peter Klein was a marketing exec when his favorite fruit farmers retired. Now he owns the Michigan orchard and grows heirloom tree fruit and other luscious delectables. His staff coined the term “holy trinity of pie apples” and now my crisps feature Golden Grimes, Ida Red and Northern Spy as long as the season holds.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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The Omnivore's Dilemma

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Pollan’s charismatic writing style makes him one of my favorite writers, but it’s the way he explores is subjects, in this case the food chain, that makes me want to buy everything he writes. He convinces us that what we eat changes our landscape more than anything else.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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Let's Have a Party!

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The paperback I ordered at age ten from Weekly Reader. The book was lost to a basement flood, but I remember how excited I was to cook cubed potatoes in tin foil. The rest is history.

Updated Jul 11, 2006

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