Part 1: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Just ask your dinner.
Think about food and you think, sooner or later, about circles. About cycles, and roundness. Whether we ever consciously know and acknowledge it or not, by being born on this round globe we sign a...
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We all reside in food’s largest circle, life and death. But what we eat (and why, and how) also contains countless smaller circles of identity. What we eat is one way we tell ourselves and others, the...
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grateful for garlic
We interrupt these slow-moving meditations n the largest, deepest nature of food and eating (Part 1 and Part 2 of Will the Circle Be… with Part 3 still to come) o to bring you… garlic. In Vermont,...
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goongoo: why there is no such thing as a definitive cookbook
A book is eventually finished. But its subject? Never, if a writer is lucky enough to have picked a good one. I keep finding that out. Back when I wrote Passionate Vegetarian (a process that began in...
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Poached: real as an egg (plus, cornbread as the center of the universe)
I remember being on Good Morning America — early spring, 1993 — with less clarity than I do the Sunday afterwards. When, in the kitchen of the restaurant I then owned, I was standing over a 16-inch...
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famous peaches, dripping juice
“Famous Glastonbury Connecticut Peaches,” announces the hand-lettered, laminated sign at my favorite farmstand, Walker Farm, in Dummerston, Vermont. Glastonbury’s about an hour and a half south of...
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