Like most Americans, Marjorie Meeks-Bradley did not grow up eating lamb. Although her mother was an early proponent of the Slow Food movement and cooked from Alice Waters’ cookbooks, Meeks-Bradley, a northern California native, says that this mostly pasture-raised meat just wasn’t in the picture—or on the plate. “It always seemed a little exotic,” says …
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Cider brings farmers back to the future
Well into fall, Adam Fincke steers his tractor between the rows of vintage apples on the tiny New York State orchard he farms, every now and then taking a glug from his cup holder. Not a Coke. Not a Starbucks. Cider. Hard cider. In a mason jar. “You take nice big swigs and it’s a …
Jefferson’s revolutionary cuisine
We know Thomas Jefferson as one of the Founding Fathers, but he was also a great champion of newcomers to this country – newcomers such as eggplant and sesame. In his garden at Monticello, which still overlooks the Blue Ridge Mountains just south of Charlottesville, Va., Jefferson collected more than 330 varieties of what were …
The eggplant’s journey
The eggplant started life in India. Its name, however, may be derived from the Arab albadingen that may have led to the Indian brinjal. Like most questions of culinary provenance, the eggplant’s is subject to interpretation. “Although the aubergine [a much prettier name for an eggplant] is thought to be of Indian origin, the first …
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