Ingredients: Summer Eggplant Surplus

9 months ago

A Vegetable of Many Names No one makes jokes about the abundance of eggplants the way zucchini gets mauled with…

In My Neighborhood: Finding Fertile Fields Along Alexandria’s Route 1

10 months ago

A Sustainable Farming Gem Hidden off a particularly uninspiring stretch of Richmond Highway is an unexpected agricultural wonderland. Here, tucked…

Food For Thought: Who Owns Our Farmland – Part I

10 months ago

Foreign Assets In an earlier KD post, I stumbled onto an alarming fact about agricultural holdings in California and Arizona,…

Juicy Post: Summer Meringue Adventures

10 months ago

  Waste Not Want Not As an avid egg white hoarder, I am always looking for ways to not throw…

Ingredients: Pineapples Have No Season

10 months ago

Loathing Cereal  I have tried to force myself to like cold cereal since childhood —  and failed.  Instead, I make…

Food & Film: Breaking Bread

11 months ago

Before Current Events Long before we picked up the headlines about the religious and political battles in Lebanon, the proxy…

Book Report: Summer Reading List 2023

11 months ago

Extra Credit I have been reading personal accounts  of restaurant professionals this summer.  Two summers ago, I fell in love…

Juicy Post: The 2023 Summer Horses Doover Edition

11 months ago

  The Start Of It All KD's Horses Doover issues appear only twice a year - one for cold weather…

Bonus Recipe: In Celebration of our Blue Crab

11 months ago

  First Impressions The first time my toddler daughter tasted a crab cake, she danced. That one was from Chris’s…

In My Neighborhood: A Cookbook Club!

11 months ago

A New Club Is In Town Red Barn Mercantile, which had a slam dunk author signing with Brian Noyes of…