Folklife Festival and Food

So, after the weekly trip to the Farmer’s Market, I came back and scanned the New York Times online edition and found an article on the ongoing Smithsonian Folklife Festival. And suddenly, I am regretting that I no longer live close to Washington. This year, for the first time in its 39-year history, the Folklife […]

CSA Today

Green goodness: a pile of goodies from the Athens Hills CSA. Salad mix includes red and green oak leaf lettuces and mizuna, among other good things. Also pictured are a big bunch of basil, a bunch of spearmint and lots of cilantro, a pile of sugar snap peas and a bunch of asparagus. So today […]

The Empire Strikes Back

I find it to be so interesting that local control and individual freedom are upheld as patriotic, core American values by talking heads in our country until issues like gay marriage, the USA PATIOT act and local control of the food supply come into focus. Then, suddenly, we have Constitutional amendments, pleas to keep the […]

Sunday Breakfast, Fresh and Local

The ingredients for a mostly local, fresh Sunday breakfast. As many of you know, I tend to emphasize eating a lot of fresh, locally produced foods. Not only are you getting something that tastes amazingly better than what you get at the grocery store, you are usually getting more nutritious food and you are helping […]

An Embarrassment of Riches and a Richness of Embarrassment

The bounty from today’s excursion at the Athens Farmer’s Market. Clockwise from the bottom left: pencil-thin asparagus, baby Japanese turnips, smoked bacon, scallions, a locally grown hydroponic tomato, hardneck garlic, chicken breasts, basil, cilantro and fragrant strawberries, just picked this morning on a farm next to the Hocking River. I have returned, again. No, I […]