Eating Well While Eating Out

Dining out isn’t always easy for people who like to eat local and sustainable meat. Only select restaurants use local and sustainable ingredients, and it’s not always easy to know which restaurants serve what until you arrive, if at all. It’s even more challenging for devotees of the Paleo diet, who try to eat “as our ancestors ate” (read: lots of meat). But last night at Russet, a Rittenhouse restaurant committed to local sourcing and whole animal cooking, husband-and-wife chefs Andrew and Kristin Wood cooked a special pre-fixe menu that met the meat-eating needs of both groups.

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Buying Great Food in Bulk

Not having the food you need on hand is like running out of toilet paper while you’re on the toilet—it’s just no good. Few of us have the time or energy to go running to the store every time we run out of a key ingredient. And those emergency grocery runs tend to cost more money, too. Instead of scrambling and overspending, we buy quality foods we love in bulk. We’re not talking industrial-sized cans of processed snack foods or 128-ounce jars of pickles that go bad before you can finish them, but whole foods we feel good about eating. Here, we share with you the many benefits of buying in bulk (hint: its more than just saving time and money), a list of the best foods to purchase in large quantities and tips for efficiently stocking up and storing it all.

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5 Favorite (Philly CowShare) Sandwiches

Steak. Pork roll. Cold-cuts. Put it between two slices of bread or on a roll and Philadelphians will eat it. Everyone’s got his or her favorites, though, so here are five sandwiches we love and how to make them with Philly CowShare local grass-fed beef or pasture-raised pork. (Of course, you don’t have to be from Philly to enjoy them.)

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