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USDA says Know Your Farmers, Know Your Food

Yesterday the USDA launched a new initiative called Know Your Farmers, Know Your Food that's aimed at connecting consumers with local food producers (sounds like one of our goals here at TheDairyShow.com).  The agency has pledged $65 million to help build better local and regional food systems.  As part of this program the USDA is forming "Farm to School Tactical Teams" to help school figure out how to purchase more local foods and make $50 million available for schools to buy the local foods.  This is a great step by the USDA.  Check out Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's YouTube introduction to the new program below.

Hot Grease On the Heritage Radio Network

Yesterday I was invited by Nicole Taylor aka @foodculturist to be one of the first guests on her new Internet Radio Program on the Heritage Radio Network.  The Heritage Radio Network is a relatively new internet based radio station whose mission is to "protect and advance our country’s rich cultural roots in the form of interviews, reflections, musings and ramblings from America’s leading farmers, food mavericks, filmmakers, artists and tastemakers."  The studio is located in a converted shipping container in the back of Roberta's Pizza in Brooklyn.  They have a lot of cool shows including one hosted by Anne Saxelby.  Nicole's show is called Hot Grease is all about "real people navigating our food system".  It was really fun and a great honor to be on the show. You can listen to our chat about food systems and the Dairy Show here. 

Cinnamon Ice Cream Recipe

The Slow U: Ice Cream of Sugar and Snow Event was a great success this past week.  We had a capacity crowd and a great talk by Jeri Quinzio followed by a cool demo by Ben Van Leeuwen.  Ben showed the crowd the secret behind his Trucks' newest ice cream flavor Cinnamon.  Turns out though this is a new flavor, historically its actually one of the oldest.  Ben's Recipe for the Cinnamon Ice Cream is after the jump.  Plus we'll have some video highlights of the event soon!