Cooking Chat Food and Wine

In today's episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Robert Russell, who has worked in multiple roles on his family's farm in Westport, Massachusetts since 1985.  The family owns Westport Rivers Vineyard , the primary focus of our interview, as well as Buzzards Bay Brewing. This episode covers: How Westport Rivers Vineyard got started. Robert's background and how he came to work on...

In episode 27, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Robin Renken from Crushed Grape Chronicles about ideas for broccolini, green beans, cauliflower and golden beets. We also hear about her cookbooks that feature wine pairings for small bites. This episode covers: A method that can be used for cooking broccolini as well as green beans. Recipe ideas for beets. Robin's way to roast beets....

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Amanda Scarlati from Scarlatti Family Kitchen about tips and recipes for Tuscan kale, carrots and dill. Amanda also tells us about her focus on Italian inspired cooking, which combines Italian classics and recipes that apply creative twists to Italian food and cooking techniques. This episode covers: Ways to use Tuscan kale and how T...

In Episode 25, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Ginain Grayes from  Cook the Garden about ideas for what to make with our first CSA vegetable pickup of the 2023 season. Ginain shares tips and recipes for radishes, spinach and strawberries. She also has some great ideas for storing and prepping fresh produce to avoid waste, and brings inspiration about the benefits of having a garden...

In this episode, we learn about the new partnership between Walden Local Meat Co. and B. Good . The companies' CEOs, Nancy Pak and Chris Freeman, join host David Crowley from Cooking Chat to talk about how these two New England companies with a focus on local food are now offering local grass-fed beef burgers at B. Good's fast casual restaurants. In this episode, we cover: Background on the missio...

In this solo episode, Cook Local Eat Local Host David Crowley talks about 8 benefits to joining a community supported agriculture (CSA) program. He also explains the basics of how a CSA works. Topics covered include how joining a CSA supports local farms, ways that joining a CSA can help you expand the vegetables you and your family eat, and how joining a CSA supports the local food system and sus...

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat interviews Smita Das, Giant Gorilla Greens President & Co-Founder. Giant Gorilla Greens is Boston's vertical farm, growing nutrient dense microgreens for retailers, food service & health conscious individuals. In this episode, we cover: How Smita's focus on microgreens emeraged as part of a healthy lifestyle approach to disease management. Star...

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks to Chef Stephanie Michalak White, Plant-Based Programs Lead Chef Instructor at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts . Chef Stephanie talks how she came to be teaching plant-based cooking techniques and shares some of her favorite tips. This episode covers: How Chef Stephanie developed an early interest in cooking. The way her focus o...

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat interviews Will Caines, Founder & Owner of Wicked Bess shrubs for cocktails and mocktails. Will is a local entrepreneur here in the Boston area, and we had a chance to interview him just before New Year's...in time for some NYE beverage inspiration! In this episode, we cover: The Wicked Bess founding story -- a pandemic pivot. What is a cocktai...

In episode 19,  host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Tammy Donroe Inman about her New England Desserts cookbook. Tammy gives us an overview of what you can find in this seasonal desserts cookbook, and tells us about how she got interested in cooking and baking with local ingredients. The episode covers: How Tammy got interested in cooking and baking with local ingredients. What makes a...

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks to Mike Leahy and Tony Sudak from Walden Local Meat Co. to get ideas for cooking local turkey and other ways to feature local meat and other products during the holiday season. The episode also provides background on Walden's innovative business model for getting meat from local farms onto your plate. In this episode, we cover: Tips for c...

In this episode, host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Shruthi Baskaran from Urban Farmie  about ideas for the vegetables in the final CSA pickup of the 2022 season. They also discuss how Shruthi's background and travel influence her cooking. How Shruthi's study of the intersection of energy and agriculture led to her interest in food waste. Shruthi's interest in food systems topics. Sta...

In this episode, David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks to Greg Woodworth and Kelly Coughlin, co-founders of Stony Brook Wholehearted Foods ,about their business producing pumpkin seeds and butternut squash seed oils. In this episode, we cover: How Stony Brook evolved from a company making cookies to one that produces culinary oils and seed snacks. The fact that the vast majority of pepitas consume...

Host David Crowley of Cooking Chat talks with Frances from Cooking with Our CSA about how to make the most of a community supported agriculture (CSA) share. She breaks down ways to use the lemongrass that we got in our latest share, along with some of her strategies for putting all her CSA veggies to good use. In this episode, we cover: 3 different ways you can prepare lemongrass. Different things...

Host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks with Kristin Weeks from Dirt and Dough about ideas for eating local seafood as local of your local eating plans. She brings us ideas for harvesting and catching your own fish, as well other ideas for sourcing local seafood. Kristin also gives us some tasty ideas for cooking some delicious local seafood! This episode covers: How Kristin's upbringing led he...

Host David Crowley from Cooking Chat talks to Uma Raghupathi from Simple Sumptuous Cooking . She shared ideas about how Indian flavors and recipes could be used to create tasty dishes featuring this week's CSA farm share vegetable. We cover recipe ideas for broccoli, tomatoes, corn and more. This episode covers: How Uma's cooking is rooted in growing up in a village in India. Differences between p...

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 customer...

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...

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 underrepresen...

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...

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 severa...

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 incl...

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 o...

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...

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 inter...