Excuse me while I gush over my fava beans. They are one of the first plants to emerge in the spring and they also happen to be one of the most interesting. As they grow, favas assume an architectural yet almost prehistoric looking structure. You would hardly know they were a bean. Yet these are […]
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To hear the economists tell it, times may be getting even worse before they get better. Some people have already been forced to tighten their belts. For others, it’s time to think about tightening belts even further. Still, there’s a silver lining to these austere developments: Less consumption by us humans is better for the […]
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A previous commenter suggested adding toast to fill out our breakfast. Well, we can do lots better than toast. We can add homemade corn bread. This is the “Company Cornbread” from Bill Neal’s classic tome, “Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie.” I made it using stone-ground white cornmeal and buttermilk from our South Mountain Creamery […]
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