This weekend Food Font will be at the Tosa Farmers market from 8am-12 noon in Wauwatosa, which is on the west side of Milwaukee, WI. We will be making a food alphabet out of local food.
The market is located at: 7720 Harwood Ave, Wauwatosa, WI 53213. One interesting fact: The name Wauwatosa is the after the Potawatomi word for firefly.
Stop by and make a letter if you are in the area!
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This past Saturday Food Font was at Gordon Square Farmer’s Market in Cleveland, OH.
The mood was relaxed and it was hot – but we had a great time making letters out of food from two local farms. I got a chance to eat a really good tamale, and meet the other farmers and vendors at the market.
Vegetables were from:
GGG (A guy, a girl, and a garden) – Tomatoes, kale, garlic, beans
Maggie’s Farm – Squash, cucumber, eggplant
Here are some pictures from the event:
Pictures of people making letters at the event.
Pictures of the Gordon Square Alphabet made at the event.
In order to show that the Food Font project can be made out of any food, I have begun an endeavor to make an alphabet out of food from local food trucks.
In the last couple of years, the number of food trucks in Cleveland has grown to 18 food trucks that are licensed by city of Cleveland. There also are about 7 or 8 that are licensed from other jurisdictions. Food trucks are known as being mini-restaurants, and often have foods that experiment with flavor, develop a local following, and have food that is easy to eat while standing up or on the street.
I have plans to to make a letter or two from each local food truck’s food. As anyone can do – I get some food, arrange it on a plate into the form of a letter, and photograph it. This week I made the letter “T” out of the sesame noodles from Umami Moto, a “L” out of Donut Lab’s cinnamon and sugar donuts, a “Q” out of Fired up Taco veggie tacos, and made three more from other trucks.
To get the Cleveland Food Truck Alphabet started, I stopped by the Walnut Wednesday event in downtown Cleveland, where a number of food trucks park on Walnut Street. While there I made 6 letters out of food.
Ultimately Food Font is meant to support discussion about food. I am a big fan of food trucks which are a great example of local culture, experimenting with food, and community – so I thought it would make a good alphabet.
Here is what was made – and from who:
T Umami Moto – Sesame Noodles
X Umami Moto – carrots, radishes, cilantro, jalepenos
E Dim and Den Sum – Soba Noodles
V Jibaro – Rice Bowl (GF)
L Donut Lab – cinnamon and sugar donuts
Want to make an alphabet, or contribute to the Food truck alphabet? Send a message on this site or foodfont.com!
In the news today were reports about a Kids’ “State Dinner” at the White House where 54 young chefs ate 8-12 came to eat lunch with Michelle Obama. Each guest was a winner in a healthy recipe contest that was done as part of a healthy lunch challenge of letsmove.gov.
I learned about a young food critique (or as he calls himself, “a 12 year old foodie that loves to cook and go to different restaurants) whose name is Michael Prados and lives in Baton Rouge Louisiana. I checked out his blog called Jr. Food Critic, where he writes about restaurants and posts recipes. I found it refreshing to year a young person’s point of view about food and the restaurant experience.
A recent post is about his visit to a restaurant called The Londoner.
Here is what he had to say about his visit:
“Hey Everybody! Yesterday, my family and I went to a place called the The Londoner! It is a English style pub/restaurant. It is not necessarily a fancy restaurant, but it has great atmosphere. Our waitress’s name was Amber. She was really nice and kind.
For an appetizer we had some chips and roasted salsa. I also had a taste of my mom’s crab and brie soup, which I highly recommend. The crab and brie soup was a creamy type of soup with crab in it. For my main course I had Steak Royale. It was steak on top of a pile of gravy and mashed potatoes. The mashed potatoes were a little bit dry to me by themselves… but when you soaked them in the gravy they were delicious and creamy. I had my steak cooked medium rare, but that’s how I like my steak cooked. The way the steak is cooked is up to you. Anyway, the steak was three filet medallions served with a mushroom sauce.”
I enjoyed reading some of his reviews and posts, and am amazed that a 12 year old has a blog and Facebook presence!
Image Source:
http://jrfoodcritic.com/main.php
Links:
http://jrfoodcritic.com/main.php
http://www.letsmove.gov/kids-state-dinner
As I site here staring at my waterbottle, I wonder how much water I drink each day. I seem to fill it up a few times a day. Combine the water I drink with the occasional shower, flushing the toilet, brushing my teeth, and cooking and I’m sure that I use quite a bit of water each day.
There is an interactive Infographic application on Good.is where you can learn about water use and estimate how much water you use each day. Many people in the world exist on 3 gallons of water per day or less. Most of us in America use that amount in one flush of the toilet.
The water use interactive infographic was created by Good.is in partnership with Levi’s, who is doing lots of campaigns lately about saving water.
I went through the interface twice and learned that water can’t be created. It is all recycled over and over, so we are using water that has existed on Earth billions of years ago.
According to the site, the majority of water use is not from what we use but from the food and products that we use each day. When I would choose a hamburger over chicken or pasta – the water used would increase by quite a bit.
I interacted with the site and determined that I use somewhere between 8 and 16 gallons of water a day.
How much water do you use?
Links:
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1204/your-daily-dose-of-water/flash.html