Ever since beginning the One Local Summer exercise, I have been in search of something that has long since vanished from the typical American diet: traditional cuisine. I have been convinced there must be a way to go back to eating before freezers, chemical preservatives, and round-the-world shipping changed our concept of dinner [...]
One Local Summer Week #3
“If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens.” -Jerry Garcia
This weeks meal started with a wish for simplicity. I had just sent off the last of the out of town guests after a week of constant entertaining, and was looking for something no-fuss to prepare. Having missed my weekend [...]
One Local Summer Week #2: Liquid San Diego
Oops. I’m a little late this week. Prepared my meal on Monday but haven’t had a chance to write about it until now (family in town, and an annual, albeit not quite local tradition-Thanksgiving in July-took all of my energy). But now that the sea has calmed, I’m finally ready to share last week’s [...]
One Local Summer week 1 addendum
I’ve been fooling around with the new google maps feature, my maps, for a few weeks now. I wanted to add this to yesterday’s post but had to talk to a few farmers today before I could complete it. I hope to do this each week from now on, hopefully getting a bit more elaborate [...]
One Local Summer Week #1: Mary’s Potatoes
My day started out with a potato. Well, okay, one potato in a two-pound bag of potatoes that I had toted home from the farmer’s market the day before. It was gorgeous, in fact, I’d been admiring its beauty for the past 8 weeks, when I started buying its brothers from Mary at my local [...]
One Local Summer–pre-post
I signed up to take part in Pocket Farm’s One Local Summer, which starts, officially, today. The idea is to make one meal entirely out of local food once a week, for each week of summer. The idea is a strict one, with the only caveat allowing oil, salt, pepper, spices and herbs. Everything else [...]
summertime evening blues (really)
The sun and the beach are irresistible this time of year, and there’s no doubt I’ll be heading out to play after coming home from work every day this week. But coming in from the languid sunset, I find myself faced with a surprisingly troubling dilemma: If I take the time to prepare a delicious [...]
Get to Know your Local Transit System
Six months ago, had you suggested to me that I ride the bus to get from point A to point B I might have given you a puzzling look, not sure whether you could possibly be serious. Fast forward to today, and you’ll find me happily perched at the bus stop every morning, monthly [...]
deliciously sound=soundly delicious
I’m only about three chapters in to Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and I’m hooked. I actually think I may have to put the book on hiatus for a few days (see below), but I didn’t want to wait to share this quote:
“Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is [...]
Morning Commute Musings
Hm. sorry for this rant–sometimes a 45 minute bus ride makes you think, especially when you forgot a book to read…
Eating is one of the most sensual acts we do. We smell a food’s aromas, are enticed by its appearance, feel its textures, taste its sweetness, sometimes even hear it sizzling on the grill. Yet [...]