Michael W. Twitty’s The Cooking Gene is subtitled “A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South”, but it is so much more than that. It is part culinary history, part memoir, part genealogy, part detective story, and ...
Schoolyard vegetable gardens have been shown to have a strong positive impact on children’s food choices. Planting, growing, and harvesting vegetables of their own increases children’s willingness and desire to eat those vegetables, and try new ones. From The Edible ...
You’ll notice some changes around here. It is no longer possible for me to write about food in the same way I have been. There are so many reasons for that, too many to share here, and really, that’s not ...
I’ve been away, but I haven’t been far. I’ve been out in my garden. After the last gasp of winter last month, spring has sprung in its usual fashion, that is almost overnight. The flower and herb beds are coming alive with green, growing things, and the wooded area of our yard is leafing out ...
You may have discovered my Twitter feed on the right hand side of the page here, or you may not have. That’s where you can find out what tweets I’ve liked and replied to recently. I thought I’d boost the signal on some of the food-related stories that have come across my feed, stories I ...
If you have spent some time with the seasonal fruits chart from Shari’s Berries, you have probably noticed that, according to the chart, most fruits are in season most of the time, somewhere. It’s that SOMEWHERE that is the important point. Let me explain. I commented on the chart’s inclusion of strawberries as an early ...
An email from Shari’s Berries Community Outreach offered this fantastic seasonal fruits chart. Not only is it extensive and informative, it is also great to look at if you are still only looking at snow, snow, and more snow outside your window. Click on the link to read the blog post featuring this chart, to get ...
It’s hard to believe after I have been knee-deep in snow several times today while taking Luna the Dog out for her potty breaks, but spring is really just around the corner. Spring Equinox is Monday, March 20. While I cannot see the soil in my area, life is possibly very different for you, and ...
It may sound funny, but eating locally takes practice. The way you’re eating right now is probably made up of a lot of little habits, like grocery shopping on the fly, grabbing whatever looks good, and go-to meals and snacks, so that what you’re eating isn’t another thing you have to think about in this crazy ...
With all the excrement hitting the rotary oscillators these days, eating a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables has been challenging. I am quite sure I am not alone in discovering I had some very overripe bananas that simply had to be used up, so they would not be thrown out. Generally banana bread ...
Apologies for the long stretch without posts. There’s a lot to, um, digest, right now, and I am integrating many new ideas into how I perceive the world. So bear with me. Making changes in the way you’ve been living your life is hard. It’s complicated. Everything’s connected, so one change affects everything, in sometimes ...
This week I picked up the smoked cuts of the half-hog I ordered from a local farm. The fresh (meaning unsmoked) cuts have been in our basement chest freezer for about 3 weeks. This was one big pig. Eating locally and seasonally has been routine for us for years now, and even though I find it exciting ...
2016 was a year full of deep disappointment and overwhelming sadness, for many people. You may have started seeing posts in your social media feeds offering up lists of all the glorious things that also happened in 2016, as if they somehow cancel or balance out all the truly awful things that happened in 2016. ...
