food
Coronation Toad-in-the-Hole
With May being coronation month and all, the NYTimes Cooking section has a selection of dishes it deems British, and…
Reasons To Be Cheerful
So much gloom, doom, and disaster that it's important to find counterbalances. Here are a few recent bright spots. Glasgow…
Pop Some Seeds and Get Cooking!
Long before everyone aspired to be a gourmet chef and cooking programs were all the rage, it wasn't so easy…
Thank You Poughkeepsie Farm Project
This is a shout-out to all the farmers, staff, and administration at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project (PFP). Thank you for…
The Street of the Fruit Stalls
Amazing how hard it sometimes can be to find things on the intertubes. There was a poem I remembered from…
Much Ado About Food: Kate Atkinson and Elizabeth David
Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
Why Rhubarb?
Rhubarb, Rhubarb Words A definition of rhubarb - the noun - is meaningless background noise. This meaning is attributed to…
Ode to Garlic
I don't think I peeled a clove of garlic until I was at least 21. It wasn't because I didn't…
Blackberry and Apple Crumble
If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…
Bitter Strawberries
Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…
Mud Soup
Some culinary disasters can be repurposed. Here is Glen Baxter on polenta: And then there are times when you just…
Lard
A Facebook friend wanted some crowd-sourcing help for a piece she was editing. Her query asked readers to end the…
Palermo: Markets and Mosaics
Palermo has three outdoor markets and we managed to hit all of them. Two we found by design while foraging…
The Great Unleaving: When Life Throws Rhubarb on your Custard
I left full-time employment at the end of June with a grand plan of doing nothing. After 45 years in…
Perfect for the Fall: Tuscan Tomato Soup: Pappa al Pomodoro
It's the first day of Fall and here's the perfect dish - pappa al pomodoro. And it's simple to make.…