• Film Screening: Waterlife
• Sampling Days
• Workshops
• Kayaking with Laacke & Joys
• Breakfasts!

Eat Local, Blog Local

Wondering what it's like to take the Eat Local Challenge? Follow along with five Milwaukee food bloggers who are doing just that. They will share their experiences - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and give you a first-hand look at what it's like to eat locally in Milwaukee.

A Year of Inconvenience

From April 17, 2010, through April 16, 2011, I lived a year of inconvenience. My passion for food drove me to take on a challenge...a culinary experience of a lifetime one might say...to live without convenience foods for one entire year. I cooked most of my meals from scratch, shopping primarily fresh departments of my co-op, learning new skills and techniques along the way. I've enjoyed blogging about my experience and meeting the countless numbers of foodies along the way who were willing to share their success and love for food with me. I'm now living the year after the year and continuing to learn more about myself and what I value most about my time in the kitchen - the love that comes with every bite!

Burp! Where Food Happens

We're Peef and Lo - two devoted Milwaukeeans who share a passion for seasonal cooking, local eating, writing, and entertaining. We're not fancy. Or fussy. Or formally trained. But, there's nothing we love more than getting creative in the kitchen and sharing our stories. We focus on cooking with local, sustainably raised and organic food whenever possible. We haunt farmers markets in the summer, store up local goods for the winter, and befriend local farmers, restaurateurs and food artisans every chance we get. We also believe in cooking real food. Whole food. food that some might call "inconvenient." We believe that every good thing takes effort.

Cream City Cuisine

Mandi is an executive chef trapped in the body of a social media and marketing professional who blogs about cooking at Cream City Cuisine. Her favorite part of cooking is chopping the ingredients with a large chef's knife, which may or may not be related to her love of the television show Dexter. Some day Mandi hopes to have a job cooking for large groups of people - either entertaining in her home or wone her own restaurant in Door County - or maybe eccentrically entertaining in her home that just-so-happens to be a restaurant in Door County.

Eating Milwaukee

It started by accident. We were three college friends who, after being scattered in the post-graduation windfall, eventually all met up again in the great city of Milwaukee. Eating Milwaukee isn't an advertisement, and it isn't a livelihood: it is an opportunity for us (Andy, Joe and Lauren) to broadcast to the world why Milwaukee isn't a fly-over city and isn't a mail stop on the Rust Belt. Milwaukee is a vital, living, breathing community of people whose lives are enriched every day by the weird, odd, sometimes challenging, but always wonderful tradition of food. Ant there's a place at the table for more. 

Good Graces

Good Graces is Mary Catherine who quite modestly claims neither goodness nor grace. Educated in dramatic performance & political science, Mary Catherine knew from the start that the politics and drama of food was where her true passion lay. In the last year and a half, she has carved out a cozy internet niche with her unique brand of technique, sass and know-how.  A self-taught cook, writer and photographer; she comes to the table armed with a lifelong passion for food, an invaluable twelve year stint in the natural foods industry and a boundless imagination in the kitchen. Stop by and say hello; dinner's at six.

Green Beans and Yam

It all started with a cookbook called "Green Made Easy" and our descent down the rabbit hole towards sustainability began. By day we work in "prairie dog town" (that would be cubicles in the business world). Melissa moonlights as a yoga teacher; Dustin can be found biking or hanging out at a local skate park. Green Beans and Yam is about our journey into vegan eating, adventures in nature, being "green," personal growth and other random musings. We're a light-hearted couple wholoves living in Milwaukee and enjoying all it has to offer. during the two week Eat Local challenge we're striving to get all our veggies form lcoal sources. Being that we're vegan, we eat a lot of veggies!

She's on the Run

Alysha Witwicki is a creative writer with a passion for health, fitness and food. Whether she's training for another half marathon, making homemade candy from scratch or trolling farmer's markets for the freshest ingredients, she's always on the run. She's on the Run is an inside look at how she finds balance between culinary  exploration and living her healthiest life.