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Making Tomato Sauce

August 28, 2008 – 6:20 am

Our CSA is in the height of U-pick season: the time of year when the distribution area in the barn is eerily empty because everyone is out in the field, ankle-deep in dirt, harvesting pint after pint of raspberries, cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, husk cherries, and whatever else is boisterously bearing fruit. When we signed up [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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