Here’s my article about Portland’s food cart revolution, from the current issue of YES! Magazine. We’ve had a week straight of ice-cold fog, and these photos, taken last July, are making me delirious with summer longing (not to mention hungry). Portland’s Food Truck Heaven: How a New Kind of Fast Food Brings Jobs, Flavor, and…
I’m smitten with this cookbook right now. I’m not sure how I missed Deb Perelman’s popular blog all these years, but it’s almost worth denying myself all of that goodness to stumble upon these recipes for the first time in this stunning book. Everything I’ve made so far — Slow-Cooker Black Bean Ragout, Kale Salad…
Oh hello there, come on in. Do you want to see the garden? That’s what I’d say if you stopped by today — even if you happened to be selling magazine subscriptions, educational materials, or hand woven baskets. Oh yes, everyone ends up out in the garden munching on plump snap peas and tender butter…
For those of you who’ve followed my blog from the beginning, you know we got four fluffy backyard chicks in May of 2009. I chronicled our early days with them in The Hen Diaries. Raccoons, lost hens, a ransacked garden, that beautiful first egg … so much drama! You can follow our adventures as fledgling…
As promised, here’s my review of The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray. Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World is a Seed “The Seed Underground” is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage. by Abby Quillen Janisse Ray celebrates the local, organic…
Recently, I had an aha moment while I was eating a salad for lunch and skimming the newspaper. I don’t have much time for newspaper reading in this season of life. Of course, we all know it’s not that we don’t have time for things; it’s that we’re not making time for them. But I…