In this post, we honor two remarkable women who shaped the world of food around them: Portland-based cooking teacher and Slow Food USA leader Katherine Deumling, and Deborah DeBord, a visually impaired home cook and CSA advocate who wrote for this blog in 2019–2020.
In this post, we honor two remarkable women who shaped the world of food around them: Portland-based cooking teacher and Slow Food USA leader Katherine Deumling, and Deborah DeBord, a visually impaired home cook and CSA advocate who wrote for this blog in 2019–2020.
Happy Spring, and welcome to the start of our blog for 2020! Like many farmers across the country, we're excited to begin the new season. And with it comes new posts, recipes, and ideas for enjoying the best of what's to come, or even what's here now. To start us off...
Garlic responds wonderfully to slow-roasting in the oven, losing its ornery pungency to become a sweet and mellow creature. Here is an easy recipe from Deborah DeBord. —Mi Ae _______________________________ Roasted Garlic When too many heads roll. Cut ½ inch off the...
CSA members might find something puzzling at their harvest pick-ups these days. It very well could be an unfamiliar type of produce...that Sputnik-looking kohlrabi thing? A handful of something called tatsoi? An enormous, all-at-once amount of basil? Rather than...
Welcome to Spring! After a long, hard winter, it's truly a relief to feel warmth seeping into earth's bones and emerging as life irrepressible once again. With spring's resurrection of a lush growing season ahead for most of the country, I'm happy to announce renewed...