The Common Ingredient NRV
The Rotary Club of Christiansburg-Blacksburg recently honored John Galbraith as its Citizen of the Year. John is a Virginia Tech professor and founding member of The Glean Team at St. Mary's in Blacksburg. John is pictured here with his wife, Marilyn, a TCI Core Planning Committee member. Both are invaluable assets to The Common Ingredient and to Montgomery County, Va. Click here to read more about The Glean Team and John's accomplishments with that group. Suzi Austin, a founding member of TCI and a Glean Team member, wrote the article for our Fall 2021 newsletter.!
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Sharing Recipes
Looking for your next five-star dinner recipe? Have a favorite recipe you’d like to share? You are in the right place with The Common Ingredient is….LOVE.
What is The Common Ingredient (TCI)? When you share recipes and advocate for food security the common ingredient is LOVE. And that’s what TCI is all about. Love for the centrality of food in our lives drives our search for recipes to share. Love for our neighbors who are hungry drives our advocacy for food security.
Browse our free recipes shared by neighbors, family, and friends as well as renowned chefs. We’ve got it all from soup to nuts.
How about that treasured recipe your family has passed down generation to generation or the one you tried last week from your favorite magazine? Could you take the time to submit it to our database? (Submit your recipe here.)
So Others May Eat
By submitting your recipes, you help us grow our database and our website traffic. TCI’s website reminds us that our time, talent, and treasure will help us realize our vision of a world where all are fed. Whether we support the NRV food pantries that we showcase or organizations of our own choosing, we ensure that we all have food to eat.
The Common Ingredient is LOVE!