Prairie Fruits Farm is always coming up with new cheeses. This week they brought a cheese to the Urbana Market that they made in collaboration with Top Chef Stephanie Izard. She’s opening a new restaurant in Chicago named Girl & the Goat. You can read a piece on the progression of her new restaurant, aiming [...]
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Fast Food: Prairie Fruits Farm Pecha Kucha Presentation
If you’ve never heard of Pecha Kucha, it involves a presentation given with slides shown in a specific format: 20 images, shown for 20 seconds each. This is from local artisanal cheese producers Wes Jarrell & Leslie Cooperband of Prairie Fruits Farm, who gave their presentation in verse. See the farm, some goats, and beautiful [...]
Prairie Fruits Farm Open House
Come down to Prairie Fruits Farm this Sunday (tomorrow, March, 14, 2010) from noon-5PM. Not only will you be able to see some adorable little baby goats, a sure sign that Spring is nearly here, but there will be some tasty bites available as well. Paul Virant, award-winning executive chef of Vie Restaurant in Western [...]
Steamy Kitchen p.2 – Soon Tofu
This is a follow-up from the previous post, trying to cover a collection of recipes from the Steamy Kitchen Cookbook. As you probably saw in the last post, I’ve really been enjoying this book. Friendly prose, consistent and clear instructions, and excellent photography make it a very useful and easy-to-read cookbook. There was one recipe, [...]
