Every year about this time, the men and women of the Waynesboro Church of the Brethren fire up their ovens and disappear into a whirlwind of flour and sugar. They’re getting ready for the Church’s annual Craft and Cookie Bazaar Saturday, now in its fourteenth year. The event has become so popular that crowds shiver [...]
Archive for November, 2007
A Sweet Start
Posted in Local people on November 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Minestrone
Posted in Virginia food on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter called it “compost soup, ” but naturally I prefer the Italian name. Gracie wasn’t talking about the fresh vegetables in the soup, traditionally made with whatever is on hand and in season, but the piles of garlic and onion peels, herb stems, carrot tops and pepper trimmings I saved in the freezer. I’d take them [...]
50 million pounds of cabbage
Posted in Virginia food, tagged cabbage, cole slaw, elk run farm, food, freezer, staunton farmers market, virginia on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Jim Randall of Elk Run Farm, Fort Defiance
It seemed like that much when I started to grate the vegetables in my kitchen, but that’s actually the total weight of the cabbages Virginia growers haul to market almost year round. In Southwest Virginia, cabbage ripens in early summer; on the Eastern Shore, growers are just now starting to cut the thick [...]
