SUPPORT HARVEST EATING AND GET A NICE BOX OF GOODIES SHIPPED TO YOU, A STORE DISCOUNT, AND A WARM FUZZY FEELING! Lifetime Supporters get spices, coffee, and access to online courses. BECOME A STUDENT IN THE FOOD STORAGE FEAST ONLINE COURSE Learn skills to turn basic foods into delicious meals all year long. The Food Storage Feast Online Course pays for itself with a bounty of amazing meals, it’s the education you can eat! “Food Storage Feast is one of the most important recommendations I can make for your preparedness. Chef Keith has changed my entire perspective on how to really enjoy living off food storage.” -Joel Skoussen, Author Strategic Relocation, Publisher World Affairs Brief Brown Duck Coffee Quackin Blend This is Chef Keith Snow’s daily coffee! Very rich and flavorful with a smooth finish, perfect for French press, pour-over, cold brew, or iced coffee-sip it up nice! A premier combination of Central and South American beans. This dark blend is roasted until the surface of the bean shows a hint of natural oil. The mellow smoky flavor with chocolate nuance is superbly aromatic. Post-Roast: Two different coffees roasted and then blended “post roast” create unique flavors. HARVEST EATING SPICE BLENDS ARE NOW SHIPPING Check out our spice master pack containing 6 cans of our best-selling spices, perfect for Christmas gift giving, save $6 dollars and get free shipping. FOOD INDUSTRY AND HARVEST NEWS: Daiya Cheese To Address Texture Issues With New Oat Cream Made Using Fermentation Daiya hopes to address the “inconsistency across the taste and texture,” of dairy-free cheese products. The new oat blend will be featured in shreds, slices, blocks and sticks of Daiya cheese. “Up until now, we know that the #1 thing holding the category back is that it hasn’t delivered on consumers’ taste expectations,” Melanie Domer, Daiya’s chief commercial officer, said in an emailed statement to Food Dive. “Cheese is the ultimate comfort food, and as a result, there are high expectations.”  -Source: Food Dive TODAY’S MAIN TOPIC: Imported “Grass-Fed” Beef Sold As Product Of The USA-Legally? American Grass Fed Beef Undercut By Foreign Competition Due To Obama COOL Law. The Grass-fed beef scam. Share of this market was 60% for US Cattle Farmers now 15% due to this law and cheap competition. Read-SCAM Bubba Foods, a Jacksonville, Florida-based company whose products are sold by major retailers like Walmart, Kroger, and Wegman’s, puts its American-made claims front and center. The label on the company’s grass-fed ground beef displays a prominent “Product of USA” banner, complete with an American flag—and, if that wasn’t enough, the proud phrase “Born & Raised in the USA.” But paperwork filed with USDA, obtained by the American Grassfed Association and shared with me, suggests the product may not be American at all—at least, not in the conventional sense most shoppers would understand. From The Federal Register "We are proposing to amend the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by allowing, under certain conditions, the importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) beef from Paraguay. Based on the evidence from a risk analysis, we have determined that fresh beef can safely be imported from Paraguay, provided certain conditions are met..." From White Oak Pastures: Today, thanks to the fact that there is no mandatory "Country of Origin" labeling law, consumers are consuming beef raised and slaughtered in these foreign countries under the guise that it's a product of the USA. Our beef imports come from all over the world, apparently now including Paraguay. Other countries we import from include, but are certainly not limited to: Brazil, Uruguay, Australia, Namibia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Japan, China, and...the list continues. HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI: Crops That Store And Are High Calorie and Nutrient Dense: Potatoes can be stored over winter in a coolbox or root cellar Corn can be dried, frozen, ground, etc. Flint Corn, flour corn, dent corn Dry Beans-On average, you can grow 3-5 pounds per 100 square feet, but with the right techniques and proper use of vertical gardening, you can grow even more. Look for a Mexican variety Jimenez Pole Bean, its a terrific green bean, a shell bean, a dried bean… a large producer if you can find seed. Great video here about succotash. Green beans can be canned, frozen, and eaten all year long. Cabbage can be made into things like chow chow or sauerkraut, with loads of nutrition and flavor. Winter squash have loads of culinary versatility from pies to side dishes soups to stews, and can be canned frozen, or stored all winter in the root cellar Carrots of course are culinary superstars and store well in root cellar or can be frozen or canned. Onions & garlic are easy to grow and store well plus they can be frozen or dried. ECONOMIC NEWS: Recently France & Italy posted prints with deflation or falling prices. Even though we have been battling with inflation here food etc. things like cars, homes, fuel, and recreational equipment are all don considerably, good if you’re a buyer, bad if you're a seller. What goes up must come down. PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION: Carbon Steel Pans-if you can get them properly seasoned they are wonderful and perform better than cast iron. I recommend Lodge or any French brand. CLOSING THOUGHTS: Buyer beware, best to shop for beef at local farms or suppliers who are vertically integrated and process on-farm, that is the best scenario. RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.stonebarnscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Grassfed_Full_v2.pdf https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/blog/the-usa-imports-more-beef-than-we-export https://www.fooddive.com/news/daiya-revamps-dairy-free-cheese-products-fermentation-technology/701478/ https://thecounter.org/grass-fed-beef-labeling-fraud-country-origin/ Great YouTube channel PBS Food LINKS TO CHECK OUT: Harvest Eating Spices Support Harvest Eating Enroll in Food Storage Feast Brown Duck Coffee About Chef Keith Snow LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: On iTunes Fountain FM Stitcher Radio Player FM Google Top Podcast Audible Podbay