What we’re reading [Oct 1 2017]
This week, we start a new feature on Bucks County Taste! We've perused the internet and chosen interesting and informative content about local food, cooking, living in Bucks and nearby, and beyond. Let us know what...
Baking matzah for the first time
This post was updated 3/22/18 I am 49 years old, and I am baking matzah for the first time in my life. Not that baking your own matzah is a normal thing for an average Jewish-American...
Bucks local food photo of the week: Chocolate, cheesecake or peanut brittle?
Yes, Valentine's Day is around the corner so my mind is on sweets (and why not?). This week our social media fans had to pick their favorite local food photo. Here were the choices: ...
Meet Your Farmer: Malaika Spencer, Roots to River Farm
The past ten years—the last five in particular—has seen a large influx of young farmers in Bucks County. They are passionate about growing healthy, fresh food using sustainable and organic practices. In this series,...
Conversation with a chef: Brian Held
In this series, Bucks County Taste sits down with some of the best chefs in Bucks and Hunterdon County and shares their thoughts on food, life, and running a successful restaurant. Update 8/15/17: Brian Held rebranded NoLa...
France here and there
Martine Bertin-Peterson has the best of both worlds. She organizes amazing culinary trips to France, focusing on food and wine, and she teaches how to make simple, Mediterranean-inspired dishes in her cooking classes here...
Giving Tuesday Bucks 2015
We have a day for giving thanks. We have two days for getting deals. Now we have a day for giving back! Tuesday, December 1, 2015 is the fourth annual celebration of #GivingTuesday. Be part of...
Conversation with a chef: Honey
In this series, Bucks County Taste sits down with some of the best chefs in Bucks County and shares their thoughts on food, life, and running a successful restaurant. If you were to throw out on...
A Day in the Life: Rolling Harvest Food Rescue
Are you ready? Let’s go for a ride. I’ve known Cathy Snyder for almost five years, since she first decided to step into the food waste stream and do whatever she could to divert some of...
Meet Your Farmer: Hershberger Heritage Farm
When you can't find good eggs or poultry, raise your own, right? That's what the Laytons decided to do and now they've got a whole farm. NOTE: The Laytons moved to a new location in...
Like AC Moore – only free
Post updated 2/24/17 A baker friend of mine recently told me that the Bucks County Free Library has a cake pan collection. Books, DVDs, music CDs— this we all know about. But cake pans? I...
Meet your farmer: Beef the way nature intended
Most of us want to eat healthier. Watch the news or read the papers and it can get a little overwhelming. Eat organic? Eat local? No antibiotics or growth hormones? And where can you...
Meet Your Farmer: Milk House Farm
Brenda Slack may come from a multi-generational farming family, but in many ways, she's the first.
"Farming has always been in my blood," explains Slack, a former mental health therapist. "I always had a garden....
Meet Your Farmer: A new generation of Bucks County farmer
The average age of the American farmer is 57 years old and rising, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Meet Tricia Borneman and Tom Murtha, Bucks County farmers who are bucking this trend. Borneman...
Meet Your Farmer: Fulper Farm
If you’ve never been to a working dairy farm you owe it to yourself – and your children – to visit one – before they are all gone. The family-run small dairy farm is...
