Recipes: Year Four of Zucchini Relief

1 year ago

That Time Of Year Again   Since my new home is to be in Italy, the land that apparently bequeathed…

Juicy Post: Last of the Strawberries

1 year ago

The Return I never can believe it when I find strawberries in the late summer at our farmers markets,  but…

Ingredients: Summer Eggplant Surplus

1 year 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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years ago

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

Food & Film: Breaking Bread

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years ago

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