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• Eating Locally in September

  Published: September 1, 2007, 2:05 am

  Tags: Eat Locally

  is the first day of the 2007 Eat Local Challenge, and I’m in. Or I will be, after we get home to Seattle Tuesday from a long weekend away. (I’ll try to eat locally as much as I can this weekend, too, but I’m not yet sure what that will look like. What will be available in the eastern Sierra? I’ll let you know.) Much of the

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• Market Report: Autumn calm

  Published: November 4, 2007, 1:53 am

  Tags: Food, Market Report, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  As the earth tilts Seattle away from the sun, and the cool damp of autumn arrives, our farmers’ markets become calmer. The mad rush of summer is over. Today, I brought home eggs from Skagit River Ranch and Olsen Farms’ potatoes. I bought what may be my last tomatoes of the year, several pounds of brilliant, cherry-tomato-sized romas

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• Overnight roasted tomatoes

  Published: November 5, 2007, 1:56 am

  Tags: Food, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  local tomatoes I’ve eaten this year have tasted more like my grandmother’s home-grown tomatoes - that perfect tomato of memory, in my book - than any I’ve eaten since I left Texas. Is it any wonder that I’d want to hang on to that taste into the winter? During September, I cooked pounds of perfectly ripe tomatoes into

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• Preserving the hardy kiwi

  Published: November 7, 2007, 1:54 am

  Tags: Food, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  but instead I found myself eating a pint a day until, sadly, they were all gone. This year, in late September, I began looking for Green Water Farm’s stall at the U-District market. At the first market in October, I asked at the information booth, where a smiling young women told me that Dennis would be there, eventually, just as soon as

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• Market Report: Pale light and a pledge

  Published: November 11, 2007, 1:42 am

  Tags: Photos, Seattle, Market Report, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  a poster reading “Eat Local for Thanksgiving 2007 - Take the pledge today.” This local eating initiative is the work of Puget Sound Fresh, a consumer education program for local foods and farmers. After I’d finished shopping, I stopped by the Puget Sound Fresh stall to take the pledge, which I assumed would be to eat

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• Baking with leftovers

  Published: November 11, 2007, 9:23 pm

  Tags: Food, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  that two people can eat on toast and pancakes, or stir into Greek yogurt, so I find myself looking for other ways to use the leftovers. This morning, the preserve in questions was a half pint of spicy, slightly tart apple-pear-quince butter that had been in the fridge for a couple of weeks. I also had a couple of gorgeous bosc pears that

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• And the word is…

  Published: November 14, 2007, 1:45 am

  Tags: Political, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  can enjoy what they eat while still appreciating the impact they have on the environment, said Ben Zimmer, editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. It's significant in that it brings together eating and ecology in a new way. The movement toward eating locally was around before four Bay-Area women coined the

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• Market Report: ABC’s

  Published: November 18, 2007, 1:53 am

  Tags: Photos, Seattle, Market Report, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  Here’s what I found at the market today: Apple cider Brussels sprouts Chicken eggs Duck eggs Eiko’s smile Flat leaf parsley Gratitude for the farmers Honey Impatient shoppers (how sad) Joy Kale Leeks Milk Newspaper (Real Change) Overheard conversations Pears Quiet rainfall Romanesco cauliflower Sage Thyme Unexpected connections

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• How ’bout them apples?

  Published: November 22, 2007, 2:56 am

  Tags: Musings, Food, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  It’s apple season here in Washington, and I’ve been tasting every apple variety I can find at our farmers’ markets. As a kid in Texas, I grew up on the two colors of Delicious apples (red and golden); I still remember the novelty of those vivid green Granny Smiths from New Zealand. When I moved to New England for college, I

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• What I cooked (and ate) on my Thanksgiving vacation

  Published: November 25, 2007, 1:31 am

  Tags: Food, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  Thanksgiving challenge, but eating locally was, as usual, on my mind when planning and shopping for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner. Also on my mind? The Thanksgiving menu. You know, those dishes from childhood without which it won’t quite feel like Thanksgiving. The foods I’m not prepared to give up, no matter how far from

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• The history of one dinner

  Published: November 28, 2007, 2:57 am

  Tags: Photos, Food, Eat Locally, Nablopomo

  beans left over. What a treat! I’ve been eating them with other leftovers for a few days, but we’re now done with leftovers, except for some green beans. The first time that I lived alone, a few months after I graduated from college, I discovered the pleasure of cooking just for myself. What did I want to eat for dinner?

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• Day 8: Pie and sunshine

  Published: December 9, 2007, 2:45 am

  Tags: Photos, Holidailies, Eat Locally

  ingredients. That’s an eat local double whammy, to know both the farmer who produced the food and the cook who prepared it. To open the Advent calendar window for Day 8, click here: Five pounds of apples in this pie, Jenny tells me. It’s a beauty, the flaky layers of its crust visible around the fluted edges. The light and shadows

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• Market Report: Winter’s pleasures

  Published: January 21, 2008, 2:20 am

  Tags: Photos, Seattle, Market Report, Eat Locally

  her 4-year-old son Reed will eat an entire head of roasted cauliflower. That’s my nephew! I’ve recently taken to roasting cauliflower florets sliced thin (more edges to turn brown and crispy) and drizzled with a sauce of mustard, lemon juice and butter and/or olive oil. The last time I made this dish, one head of cauliflower

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• Market Report: Yesterday’s milk

  Published: February 29, 2008, 2:11 am

  Tags: Eat Locally, Market Report, Seattle

  and tangy that I could have eaten the entire ball all on its own. I was tempted, but the cheese was asking for something more. As it’s February, there were no vine-ripened tomatoes, no fresh basil to be had. But there was good, crusty bread for toasting, and balsamic vinegar for drizzling, and those rounds of soft cheese… and one

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• One Local Summer: Week 1

  Published: June 2, 2008, 3:00 am

  Tags: Eat Locally, Food, Eat Local, One Local Summer

  the flavor of an unusual meat to someone who hasn’t tasted it, a clich d description is that it “tastes like chicken”. Sadly, I don’t think people who’ve eaten only poultry-industry chickens know what chicken really tastes like. The first chicken that I bought from Skagit River Ranch was a revelation to me, the

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