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Getting the Most from your Market: 10 Tips from a Farmers Market Manager

Has your favorite market started its season?  With the cost of food climbing and interest in local foods growing, you might be wondering how to get the most from your farmers Read More →

The Sunday Farmers Market Table

Sunday is market day and it starts very, very early.   My husband rises at about 5:30, makes breakfast and packs up his truck.   I wake a little later, get our child ready for Read More →

One Local Summer: Seared Steak with Cilantro Butter

Our premarket CSA began just this week - perfect timing for One Local Summer.   It seems now, more and more, all of our meals are local.   If not entirely local, they're Read More →

For the Love of Fresh Cream

Fresh cream.   Fresh raw cream.   I love it in all its thick, silky glory.   I love the taste, and the texture it lends to dishes - both savory and sweet.   There's nothing Read More →

Full Moon Feast: Review & Giveaway

Full Moon Feast: The Review Full Moon Feast: The Hunger for Connection details a love of food, of wellness and most importantly - revives a traditional connection between food and Read More →

In Season Now: Fennel

Fennel is a vegetable that I have learned to love over the years.   Its licorice-like flavor is unusual in a vegetable and took some getting used to for a person who really Read More →

In Season Now: Parsnips

Parsnips, like rutabegas and turnips, are underdogs of the vegetable world.   Everyone knows broccoli.   Everyone loves carrots.   Somehow reminiscent of times past, parsnips Read More →

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