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Rhubarb is a plant that holds memories of grandma and it was always my grandmother Winkie’s first homemade pie every spring. She had patches of the stalky green growing out behind the big grey house where she would pick it and transform it into the mysterious creation cooling on the windowsill. It was the adult dessert at the table with its twangy flavor and surreal pink hue. Forget the strawberries; she was a purist and there would be no corruption of the unique rhubarb flavor.

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With 25 teams of chefs and farmers from the Ottawa region, Canadian Organic Growers’ 5th annual Feast of Fields hosted this tremendous gastronomical delight along the Rideau River in Vincent Massey Park. In two quick hours of meeting farmer and chef teams from the region and sampling their creations, guests tasted some of the best the Ottawa Valley has to offer.

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In Southern California (where I live) and throughout most of North America, beets are an ideal winter vegetable. Chilly and wet days have crept up on us these last few weeks in typically-sunny Los Angeles, but the farmers markets and produce stands have been well stocked all season with these beautiful garnet and golden root [...]

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Oregon’s Statesman Journal reported earlier this month about a guy who abandoned a year-long effort to eat only local food. After 8 months of sticking to the diet, he bought a banana.
Justin Rothboeck told the paper that while sticking to the regimen, he’d felt he was violating the very ideals that locavores espouse, spewing carbon [...]

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Inquiring minds What change will an Obama administration bring to food? Who will he pick for Secretary of Ag? Sam Fromartz, Steph Larson, Bonnie Powell and Tom Philpott have all contributed to the debate — we can hardly keep up.
Turkey shot What was Sarah Palin doing shooting that interview in front of a [...]

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