101 Cookbooks Blog

Learning about food may be a new topic for The Everyday Scholar, but I think it's going to be a regular, maybe once a month.

Here's the second post on learning about cooking, food and recipes. One of my favorite food blogs is 101 Cookbooks. Heidi Swanson says of her quest to actually use her rows of cookbooks:

"101 Cookbooks started in early 2003 when I looked up at my huge cookbook collection one afternoon and realized that instead of exploring the different books in my collection - I was cooking the same recipes over and over. I seemed to buy a new cookbook every time I stepped out the front door - always with good intentions."

She specializes in whole foods, with a lot of vegetarian recipes and she's an expert at making even complicated dishes seem easy. You can sign up to receive her frequent recipe alerts and you don't have to worry about resulting spam or unwanted emails.

I highly recommend 101 Cookbooks to lifelong learners and wanna be chefs.

Local Foods with Molly Watson

Yes, here's a first for The Everyday Scholar. This week we're going to talk about food and resources for lifelong learners. I guess the idea started with Thanksgiving and trying to decide whether to go traditional or expand our horizons and try some new recipes. While doing the required research, I discovered some great places to learn about what's going on with food these days.

Lifelong learners have to eat and since we are learners after all, let's take a few posts and investigate resources for learning about food and cooking.

Let's start with "Local Foods" and to me that means starting with Molly Watson. She is the About.com Guide to Local Foods and she does a great job of explaining what going "local" is all about. From how and why to eat local, to what's in season when, then on to recipes and everything in between, Molly can teach lifelong learners some new tricks when it comes to food.

See what you think about Local Foods. The next post will introduce you to the 101 Cookbooks Blog.