CSA Week 3: Taking it Easy
This week we got: red butter lettuce, spinach, spring onions, fully grown bok choi (which looks a lot more like some kind of giant cabbage/chard hybrid than the pretty tulip-like bok […]
Dismantling a couple of strawfeminists in food discourse
My “review” of Michael Pollan’s Cooked went up today. The scare quotes should warn you: it’s more of a frustrated excoriation. It’s a badly organized book, full of prose shortcuts and […]
CSA Week 2: Grazing
This week we got: lettuce (romaine, I think), spinach, spring onions, sweet potatoes, chard, mustard greens, and bok choi. We get an Email every weekend that tells us what to expect […]
CSA Week 1: Lettuce eat
We received our first box on May 1st, which is early for any growing season. It’s been a cold spring, which the farmer noted in his weekly Email: at this […]
The Basics
In several relationships over the last few years, I’ve practiced the kitchen rule–like the campsite rule, except that the commitment is to leave my partners better cooks than they were when […]
Why I CSA
Today my neighbor and I picked up the first box of our fourth season of community supported agriculture, also known as CSA or a farmshare. Because I’ve been participating in […]
Elsewhere on the Internet–Thinking links
At Tangerine and Cinnamon, a thoughtful food blog I have only just discovered, Sarah Duff ruminates about the problems of “authentic” regional food. What does authenticity mean when different families prepare regional […]
Scents and Sensibility: the story of fruit-scented razors
Though I consider myself a conscientious consumer of many products, cosmetics are not among my more researched and careful purchases. When it’s time to buy new razors, for example, I […]
Elsewhere on the Internet
Rather than keeping a static page for links to articles of interest that I don’t address in posts (the former “Quick Bites” page), I will now purge my link collection […]
Confessions of a kalevangelist
I have a new piece up at Table Matters about class, cultural capital, and kale. It was an extremely personal piece for me to write–although I only briefly mention my […]
