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Roma Tomatoes. Yes I Can, Can!
Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” and a major inspiration for this blog among other accolades, has been prolific of late. In one New York Times Opinion piece, he wondered….is home cooking is dead? Are we content to watch cooking on TV, then go out to dinner to [...]
Jimmy Nardello. Interesting Man, Interesting Pepper.
The first time I ate a fajita was at Chili’s. It was 1989 and I was on a date. I had big hair and braces, and might have been wearing overalls. But I hope not.
Before Chili’s opened on Route 9 in Framingham, Massachusetts, our American teen version of Mecca, we called it Chiji’s. I mean [...]
Pineapple Tomatillos. I think.
The danger of telling people you write a blog about vegetables, is they actually expect you to know something about vegetables. Go figure.
It’s not easy to explain that yes, I do write a blog about vegetables, but I’m a veritable veggie ignoramus, except for the 13 I’ve already written about. “Beets grow in the winter, [...]
