The Perennial Plate

Videos about adventurous and sustainable eating.

The other side of the tomato

By Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

On our way towards Immokalee, Florida to visit with Immigrant Farm laborers, we decided to stop into a Chipotle. We pride ourselves on not eating fast food, and have only stopped at 1-2 along the way (always either Subway or Chipotle, and always vegetarian). But there is something about Chipotle that makes me feel like I’m not eating at a fast food joint.

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Invading America

By Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

If you havent heard, Invasive Species are huge these days: both in the consciousness of sustainable food fans, and in the way they are ruining everything we’ve come to love (our crops, dogs, lawns, native fish, and overall ecology).

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Turkeyless interlude

By Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

No one wants anything to do with food this week unless it has something to do with Thanksgiving. We've killed turkeys for our thanksgiving videos the last two years. Not this year. Here we just have a quick video of recipes in case you haven't figured out your sides yet. Mashed Sunchokes, Marinated Brussel Sprout Salad and Celery Root Stuffing. Next week we'll be back on the road - in NYC.

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Lord, Lord, Lord

By Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

It was hard to imagine focusing on just one urban gardener in New Orleans... so we didn't. This video tells the story of several different New Orleans residents who came back to the city after the storm to rebuild and start making food in the city's abandoned lots.

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A side salad

By Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

It has been a BITCH being a vegetarian in the south.  I heard the horror stories, but didn’t believe it. And now, Im cursing the heavens that I didn’t pack more peanut butter. Over the past two weeks, beyond sustaining on a diet of mostly baked potatoes, Ive been the butt of jokes and the laughing stock of most conversations.

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Mississippi hand grabbin’

By Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

It's a strange world we live in... and Mississippi is a strange place within that world. A beautiful state to drive across, where tamales are popular/traditional, and where sticking your hand in a giant catfish's mouth is a reasonable way to catch it. That's what we did on our way through this gloriously named state.

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Mushroom music

By Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

This is episode number 2 in Arkansas, but very different from the frog catching. In NW Arkansas where the beautiful Ozarks rule -- a couple of hippies started growing shiitakes in the forrest some 20 odd years ago. Today, they are harvesting hundreds of thousands of pounds of the Japanese mushrooms off of logs.

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To catch a frog

By Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

I want to remind you that The Perennial Plate is about sustainable and ADVENTUROUS food. Such is the case this week with catching, killing and eating Arkansas frogs. I've always been a fan of frog legs, but I've never had anything close to as delicious as these very fresh legs.

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Lucky Cows

By Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, The Perennial Plate

Last year we created 52 episodes about sustainable and adventurous food in Minnesota.  For the final episode of this past season, we announced our plans to take this web series on the road. And with this Episode (# 53!) we start a whole new round of weekly videos about Real Food across America.

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Real food road trip, the first morel and other pics from the road

By Mirra Fine and Daniel Klein, The Perennial Plate

Our 52nd episode of Minnesota food stories is a trailer for what happens next -- we are going across the country! In May we will be travelling from Minnesota to Louisiana to Portland to Florida and back again, once gain creating weekly videos about Real Food. To do that we need your story ideas and you financial support. So please, donate, tell a story and thank you for a wonderful year.

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