Tag : food

…is everything you want, using whatever is available, becoming whatever you need it to be, lasting for a while, feeding whoever shows up, and my weekly drill these days – and for dinner parties – gathering up all of the great soup-friendly produce at the local Atwater Village Farmers Market on Sundays, sautéing things like onions, ..

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…this afternoon while trying to approximate the simple primitive spelt (farro) and water non-yeast bread that I fell in love with in Italy – especially the stuff made by the mystical baker/artist with a little stand at Rome’s Città dell’altra Economia whom I would visit most Sunday’s (who would apologize for the ashes on the bottom of the ..

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…is the recently opened neighborhood boutiquey charming but expensive green grocer that I am hearing about – as I’m asking around trying to figure out what progress has been made with access to simple good food on the east side of LA while I’ve been away the past 16 months – so I stop by ..

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…old and new are in vivid contrast all over town – as in many of the European cities I’ve been visiting lately – most vividly evidenced on visits to the super long and lively ‘Women’s Market’ that runs all the way up Boulevard Stefan Stambolov and then past the nearby supermarket with mega plastic graphics ..

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…is a tradition for the family this time of year on our Minnesota apple orchard up on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River just south of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and this is the first year I am able to join in the fun, with little kids alternating between putting apples in bags and eating as many ..

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…is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of connecting vaulted spaces made of local stone on the ground level for animals and farm workers around a central protected courtyard overseen by more comfortable castle-like quarters ..

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