Alright, I think I’ve stretched this series about as far as I (and the season of Spring) can go. So I’ll wrap up with a short and sweet post.
Strawberries are in peak season in the northeast and should be widely available in the rest of the country as well. Served up plain with their tops [...]
Posts Tagged ‘local’
Spring Supper Part 3, in which dessert is improvised…
Posted in Home Cooking, tagged local on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Perils of Plenty
Posted in Philosophy, Rants, tagged contamination, local on June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Is anyone really surprised that a batch of tomatoes contaminated with salmonella has made its way into the food supply? We’ve seen this before, and we’ll see it again. There are plenty of arguments against industrial farming with decent rebuttals to many of them. An indisputable fact about current agribusiness, however, is that sometimes it [...]
Ramps!
Posted in Home Cooking, Recipe, Vegetarian, tagged local, pasta, ramps, seasonal on May 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You really know it’s spring in New York when you see the foodies elbowing one another at the farmer’s markets to grab up bunches of that elusive and highly seasonal harbinger of spring - ramps.
Ramps are a member of the allium family (onion, garlic, etc.) and are also known as wild leeks. How are [...]
Let’s Start Talking Local
Posted in Home Cooking, Quick, Vegetarian, tagged local, mushrooms, potatoes on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the major passions I think everyone at Food Junta shares beyond just food is a focus on sustainability, and on buying locally. I suspect that the idea of going to a farmers’ market is intimidating to a lot of people, especially aspiring chefs our age; the uninitiated often expect the produce to [...]
