Food

September 26, 2013

Happy for Hummus

Most days I occupy my time during my morning commute enjoying a book. I have recently been making my way through Robert Lane Greene’s You Are What...
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September 06, 2013

Family Flavors and Culinary Traditions

Michael Pollan somewhat famously advised us in his 2009 book In Defense of Food , “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as...
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June 18, 2013

Bring on Breakfast

We’ve all heard it: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” I am a huge fan of breakfast and nearly every day...
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December 20, 2012

Bringing Back The Art of Fermentation

What do yogurt , sauerkraut, bread and wine all have in common? All of them depend on fermentation for their existence. Fermentation — one of the...
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October 09, 2012

Culinary Capers!

We recently talked about the Oldways Symposium that took us to the island of Pantelleria. While there we almost ate our weight in locally grown...
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August 28, 2012

Nantucket Chowder Discord

In 1851, Herman Melville described the chowder at Try Pots, a Nantucket chowder house, in his epic novel Moby Dick: “…a warm savory steam from the...
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July 19, 2012

From Garden to Table - Enjoying the First of the Harvest

Today was the first day I ate from my own garden. A beautiful salad of mixed greens – arugula , butter leaf lettuce, and mesclun. It was perhaps the...
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March 22, 2012

Spring has "Sprouted"

Spring has arrived — happy spring! To celebrate, my roommate and I thought we would ring in the new season with a fabulous meal. Basking in the 80º...
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March 20, 2012

Forty Salads Later...The Salad Sisters Return!

Back in January, the Salad Sisters – my colleague Sarah Dwyer and I – reported on the salad alchemy that was inspiring us to share our greens and...
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March 08, 2012

Some Sage Advice: Make This Recipe!

As I continue on my mission to try a new recipe each week, I stumbled upon another winner in my favorite Deborah Madison cookbook . Every time I pick...
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November 11, 2011

Soup's on - A Tribute to Our New African Heritage Diet Pyramid

We are always involved with exciting food issues here at Oldways and the past months have been no exception, as we prepared for the introduction of...
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November 01, 2011

Got Milk? Calcium and the Mediterranean Diet

When we think of the traditional Mediterranean Diet, we’re much more apt to picture its delicious foods accompanied by a small glass of wine rather...
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