Spring Desserts: Mocha Meringues, Berries & Custard Cream
Whether you celebrate Passover or Easter or just plain old wonderful spring, the egg remains the symbol of life and renewal. The two following recipes are a perfect match: one uses the whites, the...
View ArticleDefining Sustainable Food
The Atlantic posted an article today about what Associate Editor Daniel Fromson calls “the biggest problem” of sustainable food: its lack of a clear definition. Myself, I’m not sure this is the biggest...
View ArticleOvercoming Inertia
Spring in New England is always an adventure. Some years we go straight from sleet to beach days. Some years–like this one–we get weeks and weeks of cool, breezy-sunny-damp weather. Tulips and redbuds...
View ArticleFood Production Meets State Protectionism
This little blurb from a Long Island news site caught my eye, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought, “Why yes, it’s about time!”: The bill (S.2468), sponsored by Senator Thomas Libous...
View ArticleEating Ithaca
Few things in the world please me as much as fresh food, well prepared. Eating local is a good way to up the chances of flavor-packed food–plus, it comes with those nice socially responsible benefits...
View ArticleThe Porch Garden
I am no horticulturalist, nor is my thumb particularly green. But for the first time, I’ve been home for a full growing season and have attempted to make use of what small outdoor space is allotted to...
View ArticleCambridge’s Urban-Ag Fair
Farmers’ markets, farm stands, pick-your-own orchards and food fairs always come into their own in September in New England, which is the only time here when the harvests of two different seasons...
View ArticleNourishing Words: Opting Out of Black Friday
Things have been a little hectic in my world and thus a little slow on this blog, but fortunately, I’ve still got my favorite sustainable food writers to read to keep me thinking. Eleanor Baron at...
View ArticleSustainable…beer?
It does defy the imagination: like all beverages in heavy containers, distribution seems like it must cancel out any efforts towards environmental responsibility lower down on the production chain. But...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture, Spring Fair Style
This past weekend was the spring instance of a fair I wrote about last fall. ”Get Growing” was a nucleus of urban agriculture education within Mayfair, a large and well-established annual street...
View ArticleDiving In
I keep putting off re-starting this blog because I can’t think of the best way to do it. It never seems like the perfect time. I look down the road at committing to all of it, and it’s overwhelming, so...
View ArticleOn Eating Aphids
The other day, my father gave me a bag of kale from his garden. It was beautiful, fresh, earthy and pleasantly bitter, and it came to be in a bag the size of a Fiat. I sat on the couch … Continue...
View ArticleAn Ode to Happy Pigs
I was at a tradeshow this past week in Seattle, a foodie’s town. My colleagues are of a generation that does not necessarily identify with the word “foodie”, but they deeply enjoy and appreciate good...
View ArticleNovel Ideas
This year, for the third time, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, for short-ish). The goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November. A typical...
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