A few months ago, Michael Pollan wrote an editorial in the NY Times urging Americans to cook more. Feminists called him out, claiming that this burden would inevitably fall on women rather than men, and called him sexist. I disagree – I think we do need to cook more, and both men and women should [...]
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Earlier this month, I spent a week in Austin for South By Southwest. It was my second time attending, and the conference is always amazing (for reasons that I won’t go into here, because they have very little to do with food). But I also love Austin itself. It’s quirky and fun, there’s lots of [...]
It’s been a tense week. Last Sunday, I started my first set of seeds for this year’s garden: tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers. We put them in dirt, kept them nice and warm and wet, and waited. Nothing happened! For days! Nevermind that nothing was supposed to happen for days. Those seeds are certainly busy under [...]
The time for New Year’s resolutions has passed, you’ll tell me, but from our food’s perspective, the new year is right around the corner. Spring is already in the air. For food lovers, this is the exciting, difficult time when everything is growing, but just about nothing is ready to eat. It is the perfect [...]
Here’s yet another reason to support your small, local farm: large farms have a serious problem with manure. They stink, literally. They also stink for the environment, and the people living near them. Today’s Washington Post had a great article explaining the many issues with disposing of animal waste from factory farms. If you don’t [...]
I blog here about my cheese-making escapades from time to time, but I don’t often post recipes. That’s because making cheese, while not always difficult, usually requires special ingredients that are only available by mail-order. There are, however, a few fresh cheeses that you can make at home using things you already have. Yogurt cheese [...]
This post from Herbivoraceous, praising the food cart scene in Portland and Seattle, makes me incredibly jealous. We here in DC have nothing like what he describes: where Portland’s food carts are apparently ubiquitous, creative, delicious, and vegetarian-friendly, DC’s are mostly… just not there. I know that the District used to have incredibly tight regulations [...]
Last weekend, between watching the snow pile deeper and shoveling said snow off my car, I spent some time ordering seeds for my garden. I have big plans for my garden this year – maybe “grandiose” is a better word, since last year said garden didn’t produce much of anything. I blame it on poor [...]
Dried wild mushrooms are like a present that you get to open twice: when you cook with them, not only do you get to use one of the richest, most savory, most complex foods there is, you also get their broth, which is a treat to use now or later in whatever you like. Plus, [...]