In spring, when early produce is available at Baltimore’s 32nd Street/Waverly Farmers Market, I buy enough greens, turnips, onions, and garlic to make my favorite soups, including matzo ball soup. At grocery stores, Passover foods (and aisles of Easter peeps and chocolate bunnies) are featured, so I like to stock up on Matzo Ball Mix [...]
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The Secret to Matzo Ball Soup – a Light Touch
April 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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Passing on Cottonseed Oil – One Mother’s Reaction to Processed Passover Food
April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
With each passing day, dinner menus are becoming increasingly weird in my home. Since the Jewish holiday of Purim concluded the night of March 10, the countdown to the holiday of Passover began—a holiday which forbids all leavened food (“chametz” in Hebrew) not only from being eaten but even owned. I have therefore begun the [...]
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Happy Hams: A Dispatch from Caw Caw Creek
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is located near St. Matthews, SC, in the Edisto River watershed. The 90 acre farm is a mix of hardwoods and fields, in the sparsely inhabited and beautiful Calhoun County. We chatted with proprietor Emile DeFelice whose mission is to provide you the most delicious pork you have ever tasted [...]
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News Feed
October 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Sink your teeth into this NYTimes Magazine’s food issue includes features on some of our favorite food fighters, including Severine von Tscharner Fleming and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, as well as a hearty (9 page!) open letter to the next president, calling for a solar-powered food system, from Michael Pollan.
Hard times call for old-timey [...]
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Hurry up and slow down
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
The gang has arrived in San Francisco, where I rubbernecked like a maniac as my taxi passed the Victory Garden en route to the hotel earlier today. The events begin in earnest tomorrow but got started tonight with the Food Bill Declaration and Severine’s Pirate Seed Swap, which we are running way late for [...]
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Food & Tradition: a Yonkers Seder
April 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments
When we talk about sustainable food, in almost every aspect, we are talking about a movement of “retrovorism,” a movement back to a less industrial and more local way of producing and distributing food. We are also talking about community, because food, when it’s not created in factories and served through windows, is a [...]
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