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Let ‘em eat muffins
Posted in Virginia food on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Help for hard pears
Posted in Virginia food on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John brought home a canvas bag full of rock-hard pears he’d noticed hanging from a tree in a public area near our home. With permission, he picked them. I was skeptical — they were not only hard, but many of them were covered with brown pits. I found out that some pears never get soft [...]
Late Summer in a Pitcher
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
The road less traveled
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alhough it’s often mentioned as a possible solution to our energy problems, rail travel is never quite taken seriously. There are too few trains and too many people needing to go places that trains don’t go. it’s possible, though, that an improved train system might solve individual struggles with travel costs, congestion and exhaustion.
Early this [...]
