Figuring out first-hand food
If, like me, you are fascinated with cognitive neuroscience, you have undoubtedly been following the research on happiness. Basically, we’re learning that things we think will make us happy don’t, usually. New York Times columnist John Tierney is as taken with all this as I am, and he ran a little experiment a couple years [...]
I know, I know. You don’t cook fish with cheese. But I was braising leeks, and I didn’t have cream and I didn’t want to go to the grocery store. I did have goat cheese, so I gave it a whirl. And it was spectacular. Trust me on this one. Grilled Striped Bass with Braised [...]
It was six or seven years ago that I read Complications, Atul Gawande’s collection of essays. Gawande is a practicing surgeon who writes about medicine and public health, and one of the collection’s essays, “Education of a Knife,” is about the problem of teaching surgical procedures to newly minted doctors. Every would-be surgeon has to [...]
I don’t often post recipes. In part, this is because I believe there are already too many recipes in the world that need good homes. And, in part, it is because I am a slapdash cook who never measures anything. And, in one more part, it is because I am not a particularly imaginative cook. [...]
Today our broody hen, Queenie, successfully hatched a turkey poult. She’s got four more eggs to go (one broke), and we have yet to see whether she can teach them life’s basics, like eating, drinking, and avoiding being crushed by a well-meaning but clumsy mother surrogate. But we have a poult. We have a poult.
Let me just say one thing. It was Kevin’s idea. We’ve got four overwintered collard plants that are ready for their Little Shop of Horrors audition. Every day, they send up seed heads in what I am trying to make a vain effort to reproduce. To that end, every day I go out there with [...]
There are a lot of things that need doing around here. A garden to be prepared, seeds to be planted, bees to be fed, oyster cages to be set up, a turkey pen to be repaired. There are greens to be blanched and frozen, boats to be cleaned and put up for sale, a house [...]
It all began on Craigslist, which Kevin scans regularly for raw materials for his Engineering Marvels. He’d been on the look-out for a tub to turn into a livewell for the boat and, last week, he hit the jackpot. There they were! Two twenty-five gallon tubs made of heavy-duty plastic. They had a big enough [...]
Yesterday, Kevin and I went fishing. Although we’d gone a couple of times before, it wasn’t in earnest because we knew the fish weren’t there yet. Yesterday, we knew the striped bass were in Barnstable Harbor, and we were determined to catch us a couple. We went out to the head of the channel, about [...]
Allow me to introduce you to Myron. Myron is the number-two guy at Ketcham Trap, the New Bedford fishing supply business we buy our oyster cages from. The number-one guy is Bob Ketcham, and both Bob’s wife Mona and Myron’s wife Michelle work alongside them in the office. The four of them, essentially, are Ketcham [...]
Tamar Haspel has been writing about food and health for over a decade. She recently moved from Manhattan to Cape Cod. She’s adjusting well. [Read More …]
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