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It’s winter. And cold where I am. These are the days for warming bowls of beans… with a taste-bomb of spring green. Back in the growing days, I tried to “put up” small glass jars of pureed tender greens, kept brilliant by a layer of …
Hi, folks. It’s been a beat… years. But hey, I’m still here. And so are you. Whew. Tomorrow is Election Day 2024 in the U.S., and like others, it’s gotten me thinking and feeling all sorts of things. Here’s one: apple crisp with beans. Okay, …
Holy smokes, folks, check out this awesome resource to help us make fact-based, truly good kitchen choices re: climate change. For the planet today and for the kids, too! A few surprises to me: Cheese (oh how I love cheese) is sometimes worse, in terms …
(to accompany this essay also on Huffington Post): Sometimes a dish of beans and rice is just the thing, the just thing. I live in Charlottesville, plenty famous enough, thank you very much, without the white supremacist rally mid-August that catapulted our town into national news. …
Imagine. August 12, 2017. Charlottesville, Virginia. Imagine with me an alternative day. Early morning. The dawning sun eases its light down Water Street, the pedestrian Mall, Market Street. It’s quiet, as usual. But something happened overnight. Where there had been none before, banners sweep across …