Louisville, Kentucky Food News - Summer 2019
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OUR OWN SARAH FRITSCHNER IS HONORED
Congratulations to local food advocate Sarah Fritschner, a contributor to Edible Louisville & the Bluegrass and principal consultant at Grow Kentucky, for winning the Bill Best Award for Kentucky Food and Farm Stewards, awarded by The Food Connection at the University of Kentucky. The Bill Best Award is given annually to a Kentucky resident or community-based organization who best demonstrates the patient, humble and community-sustaining work of a food and farm steward.
Fritschner spent more than 30 years as a journalist and food writer for the Washington Post and Louisville Courier-Journal. As an author, she has written six cookbooks. She has worked to create ways for mid-size farms to connect with businesses and schools to integrate local produce and meat into their practices. Her work with Louisville
Farm to Table and Grow Kentucky has helped schools and hospitals source local at a price beneficial to both sides.
The award is named after Bill Best, an heirloom bean and tomato farmer who has cataloged more than 175 varieties of old-time beans and numerous heirloom varieties of tomatoes for preservation and growing on his farm located outside of Berea. Best grows and sells seeds and plants he helped establish three decades ago while working
as a professor and administrator at Berea College.
The University of Kentucky Food Connection serves farmers, food producers, students and consumers by developing solutions and creative strategies for a vibrant, healthy, sustainable food economy in Kentucky.
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COMMUNITY TABLE SHARES THE BOUNTY
Lexington restaurant owner and Chef Cole Arimes has found a way to deliver delicious local cuisine to his patrons and offer ongoing support to local nonprofits in the Bluegrass region. In two years, Cole’s Community Table, a monthly benefit initiative hosted at Arimes’ restaurant Coles 735 Main, has raised over $17,000 for local nonprofits. The next Community Table is August 26 and benefits Access Language Solutions. Other nonprofits assisted include: The Nest, The Children’s Advocacy Center, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, Girls on the Run Lexington, the Lexington Humane Society, FoodChain, Kentucky Interpreters and Translators Association and Visually Impaired Preschool Services, among others. Interested in becoming a Cole’s Community Table partner? Contact coles735main@coles735main.com.
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GIFT FROM OLD FORESTER
In celebration of founder George Garvin Brown’s birthday, Old Forester is releasing their 19th consecutive Birthday Bourbon on September 2. At 105 proof it is the highest proof to date for this special expression. Tasting notes include color: raw honey; aroma: butterscotch and toffee dominate, supported by layers of sweet melon and cornbread; taste: rich oak spice and black currant instantly warm coupled with light maple, caramel cake and white floral notes; finish: peppermint tea sweetened with honey, with ever long Szechuan peppercorn.
MOBILE GROCERY READY TO ROLL
Friendly Farmers Fridge, a refrigerated mobile grocery, is hitting the streets this summer in Shelby County. Created by Tom and Rebecca Abbott, owners of Walnut Cliff Farm, the mobile grocery will deliver local meats and produce to Rural King on weekends. The idea was born out of the Abbotts’ desire to find new ways to bring to market their Royal White Hair Sheep. Partnering with local farmers, the mobile grocery will offer a wide selection of produce. 4
For more information: 502-931-6441, @thefriendlyfarmerfridge.
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HELPFUL VIDEOS FROM OPERATION PARENT
Chef Edward Lee—father, restaurateur, chef, author and James Beard Award winner—is the featured spokesperson in the fourth educational video released by nonprofit Operation Parent. The five-minute video helps parents understand what healthy eating means in today’s culture of fast food and hectic schedules. The video series is part of a program launched last fall called the “21st Century Prevention Project,” intended to empower parents and encourage them to set boundaries and talk early and often with their children about important cultural teen and pre-teen issues. Other notables and topics include: Karen Lawrence, who focuses on childhood anxiety; Heather French Henry, about cyberbullying; Dianna De La Garza, on prescription drug abuse.
The series is sponsored in part by Norton Healthcare. OperationParent.org/prevention
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FOOD'S A FOCUS AT FOXHOLLOW'S NEW PRESCHOOL
A new preschool is opening at Foxhollow Farm in September. Bluebird Cottage School is a nature- and play-based preschool on the 1,300-acre biodynamic farm in Crestwood. Marybeth Legler, a nutritionist, foodie, gardener and early childhood teacher for 20 years, will focus the curriculum around play, nature, cooking and creating. Legler believes cooking food with the students will provide a sensory experience, building fine motor muscles and skills and teaching life skills.
For more information: BluebirdCottageSchool.com
