Posted in Philosophizing, Recipes, Side dishes on Feb 5th, 2010
Potato wedges. Photo: Creative Commons/fotoosvanrobin
Though neither Super Bowl contender hails from the East Coast area that you likely inhabit, dear reader, your game day spread can still come from local sources. Why not? Local food supports the economy of your home town (or adopted city), and offers healthier options. And with year-round farmers markets in [...]
Posted in Events, Philosophizing on Dec 30th, 2009
What would Moses drive? This was the title of a session on climate change at the Hazon Food Conference, held December 24 to 27 in Pacific Grove, Calif. Indeed, this is a question for the ages. Or for right now.
…that’s the opening of a post I wrote for Jewcy.com. I was thrilled to write for [...]
Posted in Green living, Philosophizing on Nov 25th, 2009
Religion, ethics, food morals, and chickens’ flesh and souls have all collided in a flurry on The Jew and the Carrot. Hazon, the Jewish environmental organization that runs the blog, has planned a ritual slaughter of chickens as part of its annual food conference, and not everyone agrees with this idea.
Check out the discussion flying [...]
Posted in Philosophizing on Oct 18th, 2009
The Marine Corps Marathon 10K is seven days away, and I’m still fundraising.
This morning, I headed to the Takoma Park Farmers Market with the goal of drumming up some donations in addition to doing my usual shopping. I expected to make my plug, hand out my fliers, and just hope people would go to the [...]
Posted in Kvetching, Philosophizing on Aug 22nd, 2009
Eggrolls and tummy bulge. Those were the concerns of Cornell University researches in a study released last year in the journal Obesity, but the research–and the discussion about it–may have fallen short.
The study tracked the habits of people with various body mass indexes (BMIs) at a Chinese buffet, and found several differences in the actions [...]
Posted in Philosophizing, desserts on Jun 29th, 2009
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Wild strawberries: one of the small, sweet pleasures of my home town. These berries shine from patches of grass and forest without any cultivation or any say-so by any human.
Black raspberries, aka black caps (they are a deep purple when ripe. The pictured berries aren’t quite there). Yet another serendipitous find. When I was [...]
Posted in Philosophizing on Oct 20th, 2008
Working at the farmers’ market yesterday, I reveled in the questions. “Have you ever made pesto with the purple basil?” Asked one woman. “What could I substitute for spinach?” Asked another gal – or was it twelve of them? “How do you eat radishes?” Asked an untold number of market-goers. They eyed the purple versions [...]
Posted in Holidays, Philosophizing, Recipes on Oct 1st, 2008
My Partner in Fermentation and I have embarked on yet another sauerkraut adventure. After trying it with too much salt, too little salt, not enough packing down of the shredded cabbage, and letting it ferment in a place that we now know was too warm, we may have gotten all the variables to line up [...]
Posted in Philosophizing on Aug 27th, 2008
I forgot an important concept in the post about the NOFA conference–the idea of growing food for people. Both of the conference keynoters mentioned it, saying that farmers and farms have drifted away from the people they feed. Some farmers won’t eat what they grow, tainted as it is with the knowledge of what they’ve done to it.
The fact [...]
Posted in Events, Green living, Philosophizing on Aug 17th, 2008
Last weekend, I was in Massachusetts for the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s annual conference.
What did I see? Well, first we made a stop at Ellen’s parents’ farm. The conference springs forth pretty much entirely from an office just above the basement greenhouse where the seedlings come to life each year. Outside the control room, family [...]
