Plate to Plate

Eating locally in the Berkshires

Monthly Archives: August 2007

Local Food Evangelism

August 20, 2007 – 9:30 AM

This weekend, high off Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and our scrumptious meals of late, I told Dan that I was this close to becoming a local food evangelist.
And, well, what do you know? The Times beat me to it.
The connection between what I put in my body, the land around me and the miracle of things [...]

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One Local Summer – Week 8

August 19, 2007 – 12:02 PM

Living out in small-town America with only your husband and dog as pals, you sometimes forget how great it is to have good friends around. Though I’m far from the world’s most sociable person — I probably require quite a bit more down time than average — I do in fact love to have friends [...]

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One Local Summer – Week 7

August 12, 2007 – 8:22 AM

Back when I was doing veggie duty at the cafe in Brooklyn, one of my favorite tasks was making the day’s soup. If I got into the cafe early enough, I’d have an hour or two to myself to chop the aromatics and get everything in the pot and simmering away nicely before people starting [...]

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One Local Summer – Week 6

August 5, 2007 – 11:37 AM

You should have seen the bag of tomatoes we foisted on the poor market fellow. It must have weighed at least six pounds. I hope it weighed at least six pounds, because it was expensive. Heirloom tomatoes: so delicious, so pricey.
So when I got home yesterday afternoon, and examined our market purchases, it seemed the [...]

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Sun, Sweat, Swimming

August 4, 2007 – 3:09 PM

Summer, all the way.
We started the day with breakfast at the Blue Benn, an old school diner car in Bennington, VT. I love old diners, but they so rarely offer things I’d actually want to eat. The Blue Benn is different. Sure, they serve the traditional diner fare–omelettes, pancakes, sausage, bacon, biscuits–but it’s all extremely [...]

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