Eat Local Challenge: Eating Locally While On The Road

You know, it really isn’t easy eating locally while on a cross-country trip. Especially if you are traveling with a two-year-old. So, I have to admit to the fact that we stopped at a McDonald’s somewhere in Pennsylvania to get Kat some fries as well as to give us all a chance to stretch our […]

October 2008 Eat Local Challenge

October 2008 is when the fourth annual Eat Local Challenge is taking place, and I signed up. I felt kind of silly signing up, since I eat locally all the time anyway, but when I thought about it, it does make sense to participate. Taking part in this challenge gives me incentive to remember to […]

Pawpaws and Their Festival

Aren’t pawpaws pretty fruits? Look at them, with their smooth jade green skins and distinctive ovoid leaves. They are the largest native North American fruit, and they are the only species in the tropical custard apple family, Annonaceae, to grow in temperate climes. A distinctly Appalachian fruit, the has a unique flavor and texture; its […]

Shrimp Day, Part Two: Zak’s Birthday, Such As It Was

There you see the smiling birthday boy, with his birthday dinner, about an hour before disaster struck. See, here is the thing: Zak was feeling a little midlife-crisisish over the fact that he was turning forty, so I decided to make a nice special birthday for him. Kat had other ideas. She woke us up […]

Shrimp Day

Saturday morning, September 20th. I awoke to a gorgeous early autumn day: brilliant blue sky, sweet, cooling breezes with just a hint of crispness to them, and glorious sunlight filtering through the whispering sycamore and pawpaw leaves. My nose twitched once, and I knew–I just knew–it was Shrimp Day. I could feel it in my […]

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