Autumn Roots and Lamb Stew a Great Welcome Home

I know that a lot of people prefer eating out all the time to cooking at home. I, however, am not one of those folks. After being forced to eat out for three weeks straight in Columbus, Ohio, and having to limit our choices to a few places downtown in order to stay close to […]

Meme: Five Things To Eat Before You Die–The Field and Stream Edition

Lucette of Cooking Vintage tapped me with the magic meme twanger for the meme that is travelling across the food blogosphere: “Five Things To Eat Before You Die.” Lots of folks have answered with some beautiful, unusual and local (to them) foods that are truly inspiring. But, I want to take a slightly different approach. […]

Christmas (Limas) in September (And a Rumination on Chowder)

One of the best things about the farmer’s market here in Athens is the fact that the folks here often grow unique varities of vegetables that you just don’t find in most markets, even farmer’s markets, elsewhere. For example, look at those lovely beans above. Are they not just the prettiest things? Don’t they look […]

Making Stock: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Warning! This post contains photographs of a graphic nature. If you are too squeamish to want to look at where your food comes from, if you cannot abide meat that looks like it came from an animal, then stop reading, move along and don’t look any further, because some of these photographs depict in graphic […]

Really Good Reading Material

Thanks to Kate, the Accidental Hedonist, I was guided to read the web-version of the recent issue of The Nation, a very well-written leftist political journal, which is all about food. After checking out the link and getting caught up in reading the various articles therein, I wanted to give a little taste of it […]

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