I forgot about gazpacho until early August, when Grace made me a blender full at her Rappahannock County home. I knew this refreshing summer drink began as a peasant lunch for Spanish workers in the south of Spain, the tomatoes and cucumbers smashed right in the fields with a mortar and pestle, and ladled out [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Late Summer in a Pitcher
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Piling on the Grilled Vegetables
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At her home in little Washington, Grace was overflowing with fresh vegetables: tender little eggplants, onions, summer squash and peppers. She picked up some homemade sausage links at a farmer’s market; and some fat baguettes from the Corner Store in Sperryville and made a kind of summer panini.
Grace also had some leftover mozzarella sticks that [...]
A Summer Salad
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sweet and heavy, bursting with sugar and juice, watermelons are at their peak. They’re also at the peak of pop-culture exposure since scientists released the news that eating a lot of watermelon produces a Viagra-like effect just in time for a lot of innuendo and fun July 4th. That’s not the only reason to eat [...]
Cold cucumber soup
Posted in Dining, Local people, Virginia food on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At Wades Mill in Raphine, I watched George Huger, chef and owner of The Southern Inn, turn some oversize cucumbers into a smooth, refreshing summer soup. George, a wonderful teacher, peeled a dozen or so cucumbers, seeded them, and whirled them with a plunge mixer, along with a huge pile of cleaned and torn [...]
