CSA Time!

Getting my first delivery of veggies from my CSA was as exciting and interesting as I had hoped. The season starts out fairly light with a lot of leafy salad greens, some turnips and radishes, and herbs. In the photo to the right (from top to bottom) is cilantro, Hakurei Turnips, Chives with flowers, and [...]

Eating locally grown

I went to an interesting discussion panel last night about the benefits of eating locally grown produce and ingredients. I was impressed by how much produce has to travel before it finds itself on my plate — the average distance they cited was 1,500 miles! And, to survive that travel, it has to be picked [...]

Cooks compass moving to Ruby on Rails

Cooks Compass was originally written in classic ASP, and currently runs on an ASP server. If you are a developer, you are probably wondering why on God’s Green Earth we would make such a decision. If you are like everyone else, you’ve probably stopped reading at this point! But there was good reason for us [...]

Web-Inno

So we went to Web-Inno yesterday to check out what everyone else is doing. It’s become a very large event, bringing together everyone with an idea to sell and more. Since we’ve been in marketing mode, we met a number of interesting folks who seemed to be interested in our idea! Hopefully this will pick [...]

Hello World!

Hello foodies! This is the inaugural post for the new Cooks Compass blog. We are a startup company dedicated to connecting users with their local food sources through interesting and exotic recipes! Visit us at www.cookscompass.com to see what’s cooking!  We value your comments, so please let us know what you like and don’t like [...]