Learn to Cook and Preserve Food – Find classes at:
Braise Culinary School
Urban Ecology Center
Outpost Natural Foods
Milwaukee Localicious
Milwaukee Public Market
Classes are also available through local Recreation Departments and CSA farms.
Recommended Reading
- Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet. by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon –
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- Cooking by Michael Pollan
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
by Peter Singer & Jim Mason - Kitchen Literacy: How we lost knowledge of where
food comes from and why we need to get it back
by Ann Vileisis - Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil
- Hungry for Change – a discussion course by the Northwest Earth Institute
- Diet for a Hot Planet – Anna Lappe
- Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in Americay by Wenonah Hauter
- Behind The Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman
Recommended Films
King Corn
Mad City Chickens
Fresh
Food Inc
Dirt
Learn to Grow Food
Victory Garden Initiative
MUG (Milwaukee Urban Gardens)
UW Extension