Posts from ‘November, 2010’

The Senate passed S510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, 73-25. The bill has a ways to go before it becomes law. The House and Senate still need to hash it out (while there’s plenty else going on) unless the House decides to simply vote on the Senate bill. According to the NY Times, The [...]

Monday is the big day—the Senate vote on S510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. I’ve heard so much about this bill, good and bad, I don’t know what to think anymore. It seems to boil down to these two arguments: What kind of fool doesn’t want food safety? What kind of fool thinks we’re [...]

I love Thanksgiving! A couple of years ago, an acquaintance said, “I hope the meaning of the holiday doesn’t get lost behind the food.” Sorry-I think the food is the meaning of the holiday. I love having a holiday that celebrates human skill at coaxing food from the soil. For me, Thanksgiving is a holiday [...]

Well whaddya know, it’s Grains Week in the northeast. From GrowNYC: What started three years ago as a conversation about how to urge Greenmarket bakers to incorporate local flour into their baked goods has bloomed into a full-blown initiative to revitalize and sustainably scale up the production of grains in the Northeast. Incredible! Wish I’d [...]

Well Kaela, I did it. Thanks Sherri for the great recipes and instructions. Carrots, hot cherry peppers, jalapenos, and garlic from Maple Bank Farm, Cherry Grove Farm, and Sport Hill Farm.

I finally planted my garlic this weekend and I hope it wasn’t too late. If it gets too cold, I may not get that root system going. Garlic is a bulb and gets planted in the Fall. In my zone, they suggest planting around Columbus Day and harvesting around the 4th of July. My 2009/2010 [...]