Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the mountains of Tibet, you’ve no doubt seen the beginnings of the great revolution of our time: The Food Revolution. If you’ve heard recent mention of the words organic, local, sustainable, biodynamic, non-GMO, horomone-free, free range, grass-fed, or pastured, then you’ve heard of it. It can be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
“Asparagus in January”
Posted in Farm, The Food Revolution, tagged Eggs, Farm, Food, Local, Organic, Produce, Sustainable on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Simplicity Itself
Posted in Recipes, tagged Cooking, Dairy, Food, Local, Organic, Produce, recipe on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It forever amazes me how it is so frequently the simplest things that make the grandest impressions. Take a simple homemade vinaigrette, for instance. A little lemon, some thyme and shallots, champagne or white wine vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil, and all of a sudden you’ve got the dressing that takes some basic mixed [...]
Spargel Zeit!
Posted in Germany, tagged Bavaria, Food, Germany, Produce on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a time in Southern Germany that is the highlight of any two weeks in a true Bavarian’s calendar year. Oktoberfest, you say? The international celebration of all things oh-so-Bavarian: Beer in huge mugs, pretzels, lederhosen, and girls overflowing out of their lacy, aproned dirndls? Ah, no. Or possibly it is at Christmas time, [...]
Egg Quest, Part I
Posted in Farm, tagged Bavaria, Eggs, Farm, Food, Germany on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I can probably trace my obsession with eggs back to my childhood summers spent deep in the heart of Bavarian farm country. Breakfasts there always included a soft boiled egg, scooped up warm right out of its shell. I was continually startled to find the bright orange yolks that tasted so different from the ones [...]
Heritage of Herring
Posted in San Francisco, tagged Alcohol, Food, Herring, Russia, San Francisco on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For many a year I have praised the virtue of the seeming ubiquitous Russian markets here in my San Francisco neighborhood of The Richmond. These corner shops stock all sorts of Eastern European goodies: Russian spirits, Polish sweets, German mustards, and Hungarian paprikas. They also usually carry a fairly decent selection of basic corner store [...]
Butter Brezen
Posted in Germany, tagged Bavaria, Food, Germany, Pretzels on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the homesickness grips me, I always find that it is triggered by food– the strange fermenting smell emanating from behind a bar that I could swear was sauerkraut, or the sound of a crusty bread being ripped apart. It is the latter that sparked today’s wave of memories, though it is not actually bread [...]
