Pancakes Of Plenty Growing up, making pancakes meant that we got a box, stirred in milk and eggs with a big spoon and plopped the dough haphazardly onto a skillet. Every little dough bit cooked wether a drippy dot or a pool of batter. Cooked droplets of batter looked more like spetzle than pancakes but [...]
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Forgetting Fair Trade?
Well, are we? You tell me. Long ago and not so far away, Fair Trade was the hot topic. People oogled over where coffee came from, searching for a tiny emblem that signified if it was fair trade certified or not. Fair traded seemed to be a move in the right direction; give workers and [...]
Up the River: MS Matters
Gather round now and get your skillets ready… I’m going home! Alright only to visit but it will be a productive and intense time of talking to people, visiting places and eating the fares all in the name of food. Good fair food for all… I can’t wait to get to MS and see what [...]
Mississippi Burning?
Mississippi's Weight Crisis and Our Broken Food System For another year, Mississippi has been named the fattest, most unhealthy state in the country. Adult obesity is highest (32.5%) for the fifth year, and leading the way in childhood obesity (44.4%.) Statistics that are staggering. The result of socioeconomic status, race and cultural norms according to [...]
Blueberries For Claire
And for the jam fellow. Ok, and my sister, my neice, my friends, and you! Enter The Blueberry… the best little berries out there. "Well, get here early." "Oh, so you get picked clean." "No, it's hot." And she wasn't kidding. In Florida I was sweating, or glistening, almost as soon as the sun came [...]
The Scones of My Life
Scones. People like them more than muffins. I did a study at the Bed and Breakfast, and can say that people want the scones; not the muffins. Alright, all you muffin lovers out there who are now saying "No" please understand this fact, and feel free to write me a loving piece debating the finer [...]
The Case for Chili
It is in the mid 90s. People are sticky with sweat and frozen lemonade or ice cream bars are on every corner. No part of me wants a stick to your ribs bowl of red. Chili that is. Now with eye of any food based investigative reporter (like the title?) I could not help but [...]
What’s that in your Pocket?
And it’s free! A Pocket Guide to Organics….and more! So this morning as I was buying more organic Mesclun greens (yes, I have a full on obsession these days I will be sharing tomorrow. A piece three weeks in the obsession fused writing process,) I noticed a lovely sign for Earth Bound Organics from way [...]
Speaking to my Grandfather
What you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Or more specifically: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825 Of course, for me this makes perfect sense, I do not see food as just items from the earth or from [...]
The Egg Came First
For the Love of Eggs I am not an egg eater. Well, I was not at least for most of the past 13 years of my life. Baked with plenty of them; made custards, curds and souffles; fried them for my mother; scrambled them at my father’s elbow in bacon grease; and made my way [...]
