August 2014 Back when the corn was barely knee-high, the Urban Farmer and his truck were stranded beyond the urban limits awaiting a mechanic's touch. The con of this scenario…
June 2014 I know I still have approximately two months to savor, but in this city where gray and precipitation all too frequently prevail, the summer never seems long enough. There…
June/August 2014 I haven't plodded along on what one would call a "career path" by any means, and for a span of time, this approach meant not having a full-time…
I recently prepared the food spreads for a summer garden party at Roxanne's Dried Flowers, where I spend many of my daytime hours playing with dried arrangements, my camera and…
September 2013 Wouldn't it be amazing and refreshing to go into a grocery store and trust all of its offerings? You wouldn't have to read labels and decipher symbols, you'd…
Outstanding in the Field is a roving culinary adventure – literally a restaurant without walls, using long table at farms or gardens, on mountain tops or in sea caves, on islands or at ranches. Occasionally the table is set indoors: a beautiful refurbished barn, a cool greenhouse or a stately museum. Wherever the location, the consistent theme of each dinner is to honor the people whose good work brings nourishment to the table.
August 2013 “Farm Week” is a collection of daily posts recapping a summer of Farm Dinners… Remember the Miracle Berry foodie trend? The New York Times referred to it as the "tiny…
Though the list of vocabulary surrounding food grows by the year, Mike Solomonov's dinner on the farm provided an important lesson in linguistics. When it comes to eating, even if you don't know what za'atar is, all you really need to parse is the "mmmmm" it elicits when eaten in a hummus.