CSA Week 7: When Brassica attacks
It’s Brassica time, people. This week we got: cabbage, romaine, sugar snap peas, scallions, garlic scapes, cauliflower, kale, and kohlrabi. I bought asparagus and strawberries from the farmstand while they […]
Food Music Playlist #1: Summer sweets
Food Riot posted a list of twenty songs about food and drink, and reminded me that I’ve had several drafted posts about food music sitting in the hopper for years. […]
CSA Week 6: Taking Care of Business
Week 6! How can it be Week 6 already? This week we got: foot long beans, greenleaf lettuce, sugar snap peas, scallions, garlic scapes, chard, broccoli, and cauliflower. We were supposed to […]
CSA Week 5: So much green
This week we got: red lettuce, dandelion greens, spinach, spring onions, collards, mixed baby greens, broccoli, oregano, and spearmint. SO MUCH GREEN. I’ll be sad when it gets too hot […]
Things you probably already knew about carob but I didn’t
I am thirty-two years old. My first exposure to the word carob was courtesy of Dawn’s “healthy” brownies for the Babysitter’s Club. People have been eating it for millenia; people in […]
The metaphors of mass consumerism
Inequality by (interior) Design, a smart sociology blog you should be following if you aren’t already, included a shout-out to Janice Radway in a post describing the way books written […]
CSA Week 4: Many hands make light work
This week we got: lettuce, spinach, spring onions, cilantro, green garlic, kale, and beets. Beets. I should love them more. You can eat pretty much every part of the beet: its stems […]
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 […]
