The Clean Food Club has always promoted local businesses and tried to inspire its readers to eat local, drink local and be local. So we’re super pumped about Small Business Saturday on Saturday, November 26th. The day after Thanksgiving has signaled the beginning of the Christmas shopping season since the 1930s when banks promoted savings accounts that people could put…
Tag: Thanksgiving
Sourcing a Completely Local Thanksgiving Meal
My family is all about the traditional dishes at Thanksgiving: mashed sweet potatoes, green bean casserole with crunchy onions on top, traditional bread stuffing. We usually have two kinds of cranberry sauce: fresh and jellied. My grandmother also brings some regional Pennsylvania-Dutch fare, such as corn pudding, red beet eggs, and apple butter (recipe here). Sometimes we’ll…
Turnip and Potato Mash with Sage Butter
Thanksgiving has the most food traditions of any American holiday. If I asked anyone off the street what they’re planning to cook for the big day, they’d say their Grandmother’s stuffing or their sister-in-law’s green bean casserole. Some swear by their mother’s cranberry sauce while others by the jellied kind from the can (I shamelessly…
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