St. Patrick’s Day bonus post — let’s hear it for the eating of the green. Nothing sings of spring like flageolets. Even their name sounds like birdsong. Basically immature kidney beans, flageolets have a mild, satisfying flavor and luscious, creamy texture. Pale and green, they look like candy and are chic as only the French…
Panzanella
Fire and Rain Originally posted for Huffington Post on 09/19/2011 Twenty-two-acre Kingsbury Farm serves Warren, Vermont, a population of under 2,000. Johnson’s Backyard Garden is 200 acres, but as they say, everything’s bigger in Texas, including this organic farm which serves Austin, a population of roughly 800,000. The two farms are 2,000 miles apart, but both farmers use sustainable practices, and…
Quinoa Salad With Mangoes, Cashews and Mint
Who Grows Our Food — the Fair Trade Quinoa Farmers of the Altiplano Originally posted for Huffington Post on 05/23/2016 That the United Nations declared 2013 to be the International Year of Quinoa came as news to Rene Chila Mamani. To reach him, you must first fly to La Paz, then drive a full day along dirt…
Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad
The Revolution Will Not Come With Meal Kits Originally posted for Huffington Post on 07/04/2016 Today we celebrate Independence Day, that time a few hundred years ago when our forefathers broke with British tyrants. Their revolution took nerve and hard work, but it turned out okay. So okay, in fact, it’s time to try it again. This…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Hetty McKinnon
Hetty McKinnon and I haven’t met yet but we’ve bonded, whether she knows it or not. We’re salad sisters, united in the belief that salad is so much more than lettuce. Salad is an opportunity to give each season’s fresh vegetables and fruits the love they deserve, to enhance them with a defining hint of acidity…
Middle Eastern Eggplant Salad
Living the Mediterranean Life Originally posted for Huffington Post on 05/08/2017 We’re already a week into International Mediterranean Diet Month, and I’ve got some activities lined up for you: Hike and picnic with friends. Slather bread and roasted vegetables with garlic, gutsy romesco sauce. Share a summery ratatouille and a bottle of wine. Break out the baklava. Live better. Living better…
Beet, Celery and Arugula Salad With Brazil Nuts
Salad Days Originally posted for Huffington Post on 5/01/2017 In Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra recalls “my salad days,” when she was young and exuberant. Bring your most exuberant self to May — 31 whole days devoted to salad. My maternal grandfather approached salad exuberantly. Freewheeling in life and in the kitchen, his idea of salad was…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Hannah Kaminsky
Hannah Kaminsky is: Prolific, with five, count ‘em five, bestselling cookbooks including her newest, Real Food, Really Fast. Persevering, with over a decade blogging at BitterSweet . Talented, not just in recipe development and food photography, but in knitting, crocheting and crafting adorable things —activities requiring so much patience and precision, they just strike me…
Pantescan Pasta With Capers, Olives and Tomatoes
The Mediterranean Diet Gets A Bigger Splash Originally posted for Huffington Post on 5/16/2016 Happy Mediterranean Diet Month! Pantelleria has been discovered. This sleepy Sicilian island is suddenly hot thanks to A Bigger Splash. But Pantelleria was here long before Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes. It’s an ancient island closer to Tunisia than Sicily. Volcanic, windswept Pantelleria seems barren,…
St. Patrick’s Day Bubble and Squeak (The Eating of the Green)
St. Patrick’s Day Dublin-Style — Dedicated, Passionate Vegan Community: 1, Corned Beef and Cabbage: 0 Originally posted for Huffington Post on 3/13/2017 Who cares about green beer? Last month, I was blissed to find soy milk and almond milk in every coffee shop in Dublin. Every eatery had a vegan option or could craft one without fuss…
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