Don’t get me wrong. I am all behind locally produced foods. In fact, in a perfect world, I think all foods would be grown within walking distance–more or less–of where they’re consumed. That would mean a huge shift in the way affluent Americans approach agriculture and food production. Maybe we wouldn’t eat so much meat. […]
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The farmers market next to the county courthouse in Arlington, just over the Potomac River from the District of Columbia, is one of the area’s oldest. But I had never been before this weekend. The market does not have a cozy feel at all–at least not this time of year. It’s set up in a […]
Here’s a case of things not turning out quite as planned. Last weekend on our trip to the farmers market I bought three pounds of apples. Apples are in plentiful supply, even with most of the farmers markets closed for the season. My plan was to make the kind of apple torte we used to […]
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