The Pasture Post, June 2008

Welcome to The Pasture Post - the newsletter for Sustainable Table & The Meatrix!

First, we have to thank all of you for your amazing grilling and camping recipes, as well as for all of you who emailed us suggestions on where to go on our mini-road trip, “From Bonnaroo to Boulder." And an even bigger thank you to Krista, Melinda & Dan, Jayni and Dallas for meeting up with us on the road!

Read more about what we did below...

In this issue:
Summer Grilling Article and Recipes
Bonnaroo
LOHAS
International Meatrix DVDs
Tell us your camping/grilling stories – the top 4 entries get a prize!
Miscellaneous

Summer Grilling Article and Recipes
Read our latest feature article, “Summer Grilling – the Sustainable Table Way” to learn more about the history of grilling, types of charcoal, how to cook grassfed beef, and food safety tips.

We also have a selection of delicious camping and grilling recipes – from gourmet treats to simple ways to cook on a campfire.   You can make Heirloom Tomato Salad with Market Basil, Cucumber, and Grilled Sourdough, courtesy of Chef Todd Gray of Equinox Restaurant in Washington, D.C., or something simpler like Grilled Pizza from Laura Freden, a Sustainable Table reader (and freelancer for us!) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bonnaroo
"From Bonnaroo to Boulder" (our mini road trip) started off in Manchester, Tennessee, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, where Sustainable Table hosted “Rock the Grill - unplugged” with Farm Aid’s HOMEGROWN campaign. Find out what we did, who we met, the music we listened to, as well as the great food we ate! You can also read about our drive from Bonnaroo to LOHAS and the wonderful people we met along the way. Thanks again to all of you for sending in your suggestions – we had the most votes for visiting Columbia, Missouri – which we did – and we loved! We also visited a Whole Foods in St. Louis and toured a heritage turkey farm in Colorado.

LOHAS
LOHAS stands for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability. It’s a segment of the market green businesses are trying to reach. Sustainable Table attended the conference to see what was happening with sustainability in the for-profit world, and along the way we met many wonderful people and learned many interesting things. Find out what we did while in Boulder, Colorado!

International Meatrix DVDs
After months of hard work, we’re proud to announce that The Meatrix International DVDs are now complete. The DVD includes the three extremely popular films in over 15 languages! If you would like to show The Meatrix to a multilingual audience, please contact us for more details at leo@themeatrix.com.

Tell Us Your Story!
Tried any of our camping or grilling recipes? Have any stories to share about your favorite sustainable food or backyard picnic or camping event? Write a story and let us know what you’ve done to make your summer events a little more sustainable! We’ll publish the best ones on our “Stories” page  - and the top 4 will receive a copy of Food 2.0 – Secrets from the chef who fed Google, by Charlie Ayers. Included are Chef Charlie’s principles for smart food shopping, time-saving tips, and more than 100 delicious, healthy recipes. You can email your story to info@sustainabletable.org.

Miscellaneous

• To the Director of New Product Marketing at that large company, who we met at LOHAS – we didn’t get your email so please contact us again. We have a Scrabble game to play!
• If any of you read More Magazine (over 1.5 million readers), there’s an 11-page article on Sustainable Table and Founder Diane Hatz starting on page 104 in the July/August issue. Pick up a copy today! And if you’re ever interested in seeing the press we get, please visit our Media Lounge for media mentions and our latest press releases.
• Stay tuned! – we have some improvements coming soon to the Sustainable Table site. We can’t wait to launch them and share them with you.
• The New Amsterdam Market this Sunday in NYC.  It will be the 3rd market so far: “In its ongoing effort to foster a regional, sustainable food system by establishing a permanent, indoor public market in the City of New York, the New Amsterdam Public Market Association will hold its third market on Sunday, June 29th at the Seaport in Lower Manhattan.” 

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