Posted originally on 07/28/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Using the Old Bean Bad news globally, in Ukraine and Gaza and bad news closer to home, too — a wonderful friend has been ill. But she’s on the mend and she’s a smart girl. She’s building herself back up and trying to get a little…
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Boston Brown Bread
By Ellen Kanner Posted originally on 06/09/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Boston Uncommon I’m right proud to have made The Boston Calendar’s coveted list of Events That Don’t Suck. Back at ya, Boston, it didn’t suck for me, either. It was wonderful. I got to speak at Wellesley Books, a great indie book store,…
It’s Whole Grains Month — Make the Switch, Join the Party
Welcome to Whole Grains Month, a celebration of amaranth, barley, buckwheat, millet, oats, quinoa, rye, sorghum, spelt, teff, triticale and other whole grain wonders. The Whole Grains Council is making whole grains even more appealing and accessible with their Make the Switch Contest. Sixteen whole grain-loving bloggers (including me) have created recipes changing up basic…
The Eating of the Green
I am always hungry for Ireland and love all things Irish — the Pogues, U2 back when they didn’t take themselves so seriously, almost any Irish author, and I am fortunate beyond words to know Darina Allen and Tamasin Day-Lewis, two of Ireland’s culinary muses. Darina Allen who runs the splendid Ballymaloe Cookery School in…
Community Peel and Eat Fava Bean Dip
Moroccans don’t go to supermarkets, they go to the souks. They haggle with the vendors, they study the wares — barrows full of thistly wild artichokes, bins of lustrous purple eggplants, baskets of fresh, fragrant mint, pyramids of dried apricots and figs, pillar-sized jars of spices, piles of grains and dried beans. People cook together…
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
I was happy to see Susan Orlean had an article in a recent New Yorker. I had liked The Orchid Thief and The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, but her New Yorker article showed me a side of Ms. Orlean I had not known — she is a liar. In “The It Bird,” Ms. Orlean chronicles…
Roadwalker Gumbo
Once upon a time, there was a Pulizer Prize-winning author, a woman who drank Jack Daniels, shot ducks and wore diamonds with equal nonchalance. Her name is Shirley Ann Grau and she was my magical guide around New Orleans a few years back. “I’m quite a dull, conventional person,” she warned. This was a lie….
Banana Bread and the Theory of Relativity
Fabulous art courtesy of the fabulous Philip Brooker. I got thinking about banana bread this morning when I saw the bananas on the kitchen counter had gone all black and gnarly. This is a good thing — tired, past-their-prime bananas are what distinguish a superior banana bread from its pale, dry imitations. My grandmother’s…
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