Figuring out first-hand food
Flowers are good. Wine is good. In between, though, it gets downright disgusting. We’ve been waiting for dandelion season ever since our friends Dan and Linda first brought us a bottle of their dandelion wine. We were fully prepared to take a sip, smile politely, and tell them how good it was. And we did [...]
What exactly is an edible plant? Depends who you ask. If you ask Euell Gibbons (or asked him – he died in 1975), it’s anything that doesn’t kill you. I set the bar a little higher. It has to taste good and not kill you. When plants are only an inch or two high, they [...]
Spring starts in four days. I’m not sure I’m going to make it. I now understand why New England is populated with hardy New England stock. In a population shift dating back to the Pilgrims, all the sissies took to the hills after their first February up here. What was left were the people who [...]
This past Sunday, the venerable New York Times published a piece called “Winter in Tennessee” on the back page of the Magazine. It was by a writer named Kevin Wilson who, with his wife, recently moved into their first house, a pond-side cabin in the woods. Since I have some experience moving to a pond-side [...]
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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