This week at the farmers’ market.
In spite of a record-breakingly rainy April, we’re seeing more local produce showing up at the farmers market at Findlay, and also at the Hyde Park Farmers Market, which opened its early season just today under …
Category: Recipes
Pizza with chard and onion.
It’s a wonder that pizza—a single-crust version without any pepperoni, sausage or Mozzarella cheese, one topped with healthy veggies, no less—could taste so rich. I spotted this recipe for Onion Pizza with Ricotta and Chard in …
That desk job? It’s not great for your health.
Maybe I can chalk it up to the self-awareness that comes along with getting older. Or maybe to simply the physical changes that come with getting older. Whatever. The fact is, I’m finding that my desk …
Quote of the day.
From Curnonsky, a.k.a., the Prince of Gastronomy, a celebrated culinary writer and critic in early 20th century France: Good cooking is when things taste of what they are.
Moroccan chicken tagine.
Our January trip to Morocco opened my eyes to a world of sights and smells I’d never experienced. And it introduced my palate to a fantastic way of cooking. I’d been passingly familiar with Moroccan cooking, …
Almanac: April 5.
Spotted yesterday and today on our morning walks with the puppy: The Bradford pears have exploded—there’s no other way to describe the sudden riot of white blooms. And the stink. They smell like feet. The purple …
Pasta with sausage and other good stuff.
In my library of a decade’s worth of old Bon Appétit magazines, I know exactly which issue to reach for: September 1995, the American Restaurants Issue. Page 93. Page 93 is dog-eared, wrinkled from the steam …
Making and using preserved lemon.
Have you ever been traveling and marveled at some new food or product that you swear you’ve never seen at home? (A writer smarter than I called this phenomenon amnesic product recollection.) During our winter trip …
Almanac: March 23.
Spotted today: a row of cherry trees (edit: plum trees; they’re botanically related, in the Prunus family, though plums bloom first) in bloom up the street; they began showing color practically overnight (definitively within the past …
