Garden Update: I’ve Got ‘Maters!

With the heat wave we have been experiencing here in Athens (heat indeces of around 106 degrees F daily–woohoo!) and no rain in sight, I have noticed that my tomatoes have started going into overdrive. (The heat wave did finally break last night, with a spectacular series of thunderstorms that included mult-colored lightning, cracks and […]

Food, And Athens, In The News

Athens Rated as One of the 12 Great Places You’ve Never Heard Of So, we were out having breakfast Monday, and came across the cover story in the Athens News, our highly loved biweekly tabloid newspaper: “Athens gets high ranking for its quality of life — and obscurity.” It seems that The Mother Earth News […]

The Locavore’s Bookshelf: Real Food

Reading Nina Planck’s Real Food: What to Eat and Why was an exercise in both elation and frustration. On the one hand, I was thrilled to read my own intuitive (and educated) trust in whole, natural foods ably articulated by a facile writer who makes a good case that a lot of conventional nutritional wisdom […]

A Salad of A Different Color

Salads are most usually green. I mean, green salads, with lettuce and other salad greens, are generally green. Hence, the name, “green salad.” But, even though my favorite color is green, and thus it is the dominant color in both my kitchen and my office, I get tired of it. I get bored and want […]

Fresh And Local Ingredients Make Summer Pasta Special

I am lucky to live where I do. Many city dwellers would be confused to hear me say that; after all, I live in a very small town in the middle of a rural Appalachian Ohio county that has a high unemployment rate and all of the attendant problems which that entails. However, I am […]

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