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My Hedonistic Superbowl Recipe: Cola Braised Pulled Pork Shoulder with Whiskey Barbeque Sauce, Green Cabbage Slaw and Pickled Red Onions 6 Feb 2011 | 03:03 am
Perfect for a winter party, I like to make braised pork shoulder for big game days – Super Bowl Sunday, in particular. Pork shoulders are large, inexpensive, and an oft underutilized cut. It is perfec...
Garbage Goes Gourmet: Offal and Weeds 28 Apr 2010 | 02:57 am
A collection of foods that have been excluded from the American diet but are finding their way back in with star power. Bits of offal – liver, spleen, and hearts from local butcher Jake Dickson of Dic...
Monkshood Nursery and Gardens: Born Charismatic and Organic, now leaning toward a Biodynamic future. 30 Mar 2010 | 02:25 am
How are you? I am David, forty thousand onions later. Tell me the story behind the naming of your farm. I was going to call it something like the nice herb garden at the end of the pathway, or somethi...
New York is Finally Free to Bee 17 Mar 2010 | 06:49 am
If you think bees are something to avoid, then you might not understand why Section 161.01 which bans keeping animals that are ”wild, ferocious, fierce, dangerous or naturally inclined to do harm.” ...
On FoodTV and Me 5 Mar 2010 | 03:35 am
According to its Wiki, the Food Network was founded in 1993, though food television as a genre had been around far longer and was actually a very memorable part of my TV laden childhood, right alongsi...
Mid-Winter Breakfast… 5 Mar 2010 | 02:17 am
This is the brunch I made this weekend and described in my last post. Would you like to know how to make baked eggs? If so let me know.
A Can Opening Kind of Weekend 1 Mar 2010 | 12:50 am
This year I took advantage of the summer bounty and learned to can. In case you are not familiar, canning at home means preserving food in jars. In my opinion its an art and one in which I had never...
Mushrooms, Medicine, and Culinary Magic with Dan Madura 23 Feb 2010 | 01:46 am
photo credit: Tom Giebel Dan Madura is the owner of MycoMedicinals, the premier Mushroom distributer of the New York City Greenmarket system. Upon approaching him for this interview, he wanted to clar...
Thank you. I’m glad to know we’re friends, of course; There are so many outcomes that are worse. 15 Feb 2010 | 04:35 am
A Speech to the Garden Club of America by Wendell Berry from the September 28, 2009 issue of the New Yorker. (With thanks to Wes Jackson and in memory of Sir Albert Howard and Stan Rowe.) Thank you. I...
Cayuga in the Field: Local Grain Rising 5 Feb 2010 | 01:48 am
Is it even possible to grow grains and beans in New York soil? New to the Greenmarket, Cayuga Pure Organics proves the answer is undoubtedly yes. The first vendor selling locally grown grains, beans a...
