If it’s Sunday, it must be time for crab cakes at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market here in the District of Columbia. Farmers markets aren’t just for produce anymore. You can walk around nibbling to your heart’s content. Cookie, anyone? In years past, I would brave the cold to find a handful of vendors at […]
Tags:farmer's markets·winter
It’s the middle of February and we’ve experienced some of the coldest temperatures of the season. The garden should be dead, or at least dormant, right? Not so. As I walk around our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, the signs of life are everywhere. Some of that is new: the rhubarb we […]
Tags:vegetables·winter
I try to visit a farmers market at least once a week to see what’s being offered here in the District of Columbia in the depth of winter. The tone of the market changes when the temperatures rise above freezing. There is more bustle, more chatter–the food seems to come alive. This display of salad […]
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