In November’s edition of Keeping It Fresh, Charles visits with the owner of Chong’s Farm from Fresno; a specialty grower for Asian vegetables and herbs. Chong is a new addition to the Saturday morning SLO Farmers Market and shows up with unique, hard-to-find Asian vegetables that have never been offered in our area before. You can listen by clicking on the following post
. Keeping It Fresh November 2011Keeping It Fresh on KCBX Public Radio with chef/host Charles Myers
Oct 5 2011In October’s edition of Keeping It Fresh, Charles finds out about the new oral history project at Kennedy Library on the Cal Poly campus regarding area Farmers Markets. They wish to collect stories from local organizers, early supporters & farmers to enhance our historical understanding of the people of the central coast. Keeping It Fresh Oct 2011
Listen to August’s Keeping It Fresh here to find out more:“Keeping It Fresh” on KCBX Public Radio with host/chef Charles Myers
Sep 5 2011In September’s edition of Keeping It Fresh, Charles visits with Steve Burns, one of the organizers of Savor the Central Coast with Sunset Magazine. This 4 day event runs from Sept. 29th thru Oct. 2nd throughout San Luis Obispo County. It includes a California Mission Heritage dinner at the SLO Mission Plaza, a dinner on the square in downtown Paso Robles, a giant wine tasting on the Pismo Pier with all of Sunset Magazines new award winners and two days at the Santa Margarita Ranch with celebrity chef’s, gardeners and winemakers. Listen to August’s Keeping It Fresh here to find out more:
“Keeping It Fresh” on KCBX Public Radio with host Charles Myers: August 2011
Aug 3 2011In August’s edition of Keeping It Fresh, Charles visits the new “restaurant row” at the Saturday morning SLO Farmers Market. A dozen local restaurants now offer prepared dishes to eat at the market or take home for meal preparation later. Many of these restaurants are long-time users and supporters of Farmers Markets, like Neon Carrot, Luna Red, Buona Tavola, Full of Life Flatbread, Saffron Indian Cuisine, the Crushed Grape, Mezze, and more. Listen to August’sKeeping It Fresh here:
June 2011 “Keeping It Fresh” with chef/host Charles Myers on KCBX Public Radio
Jun 3 2011In June’s edition of Keeping It Fresh, Charles visits the Templeton Saturday morning farmers market. The 6-8 week cherry season is here and this visit inspires a couple of seasonal cherry recipes: Rustic French Cherry Clafoutis & Pennsylvania Dutch Cherry Soup. Then Charles interviews Antonio Varia from Buena Tavola Restaurants who is just getting underway with a new project; Allesina Fine Cured Meats. His first offerings are several varieties of artisan, small batch salamis. Soon to come from this project are chicken and turkey sausages, proscuitto and pancetta. They are available at the Templeton farmers market and soon at the Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo markets. Listen to June’s Keeping It Fresh here:
“Keeping It Fresh” May 2011, with host/chef Charles Myers
May 4 2011In this month’s edition of Keeping It Fresh, we chat with Dr. Tom Newhaus, Cal Poly Professor & Fair Trade activist. Charles and Tom discuss the upcoming fundraising dinner for the Fair Trade Club at Cal Poly and Project Hope & Fairness at the Monday Club, Tuesday May 17th. Tom is raising money with an elegant multi-course French dinner to assist student participation in his upcoming trip to the cocoa growing region of Africa. For eight years Tom has spent his summers in Africa building economic tools for cocoa growers to increase the viability and sustainability of farming and growing the bean that brings us chocolate. Hear more in the program and visit “Sweet Earth Chocolates” or Project Hope and Fairness.http://bigskycafe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/KIF-May-111.mp3
