On August 27th, 2011, THE SALENTO WATERMELON HARVEST…
…never happened this year since it would cost the farmers more to harvest them than they could then sell them for – leading to some sad but beautiful…
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On August 26th, 2011, GENOVA CENTRAL MARKET…
…is a pleasure the way all Italian markets are, where you are given an instant taste of the precise season, climate, weather, landscape, culture, economy, history, habits, and…
On August 22nd, 2011, GRAND APPETIT…
…the simple casual homey delicious macrobiotic Marais cafe established in 1980, where you feel like you are dropping by your very cool exotic earthy French aunt and uncle’s…
On August 17th, 2011, A SMALL PURPLE MUSHROOM…
…which we are later told might perhaps be edible, stops me on my afternoon hike from the lake, down the hill, through the woods, a shock of subtle…
On August 10th, 2011, TAO FOODS…
…the wood-lined, screen-doored, toybox-equiped, homey health food store and cafe dating from the early 1970’s on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis is often our place of choice for morning…
On August 4th, 2011, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE…
…the influential 2007 familial account of eating products grown close to home for a year by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, is one of…
On August 1st, 2011, BOATHOUSE ON BAY LAKE…
…is where I have come home to retreat for the week, but continuing on a hybrid continental schedule involving going to bed with the sun at 9pm and…
On July 30th, 2011, THE SAINT PAUL FARMERS MARKET…
…was founded in 1853 back when streets where dirt in these parts and has since been relocated a few times before landing at it’s current downtown location which…
On July 26th, 2011, A NEW HOME FOR THE ROMAN ROOFTOP GARDEN…
…on the ground of the former parking lot at the Ex-SNIA community center – a vast abandoned industrial complex east of Termini being reclaimed by trees and meadows…
On July 25th, 2011, A FAREWELL ROMAN ROOFTOP DINNER…
…last night, cooking for my local Roman friends, was the best way to say goodbye – to them, to the city, and to the garden, which was picked…
On July 24th, 2011, TORICELLA IN SABINA…
…near Rieti in the Sabine hills north of Rome is the location of the country house that our artist friend Emiliano Maggi partly grew up in – and…
On July 23rd, 2011, INTERVIEWS OFF VIA APPIA…
…for the Roma Mangia Roma book take us this morning to a house in the most remarkable location on extensive grounds covered with thick woods, picturesque meadows, modest…
On July 20th, 2011, TREVIGNANO ROMANO…
…is the village overlooking Lake Bracciano north of Rome where we traveled this afternoon to interview Massimo at Agriturismo Acquaranda, for the Roma Mangia Roma book, to hear…
On July 19th, 2011, SCANDRIGLIA…
…in the Sabina of Lazio was the destination of our morning road trip to visit Oretta Zanini de Vita (the font of inspiration and information regarding cucina Italiana…
On July 18th, 2011, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEWS #18-21…
…took us to a family of three generations living in a newish housing development about 8 km south of central Rome – still within the Grande Raccordo Anulare,…
On July 13th, 2011, HINKEL BÄCKEREI…
…is the best bread in Düsseldorf according to a few of the market farmers I have asked (in a country where people take their bread very very seriously),…
On July 4th, 2011, INDEPENDENCE DAY…
…American Academy-style involved an Americanissimo coleslaw, homemade potato chips, grilled hamburger with fixins, potato salad, and watermelon lunch (making for a strange greeting for newly arrived guests who…
On July 1st, 2011, THE BEAN POLE WIGWAM…
…I placed on axis with the top floor Academy corridor – where I live and work – is providing some drama in the distance this morning as I…
On June 29th, 2011, CUCUMBERS…
…cetrioli, (two of them) are busting out, pumping up daily, from those vines creeping up the rebar structures that I installed months ago – finally, finally being put…
On June 27th, 2011, BORLOTTI…
…beans have arrived to the rooftop garden, with harvest day for the speckled magenta pods hiding everywhere I look.