Tag Archives: food culture The term salad days has nothing to do with weather, or season, but I think it should. Salad days seems as least as good a description of oppressive heat as Dog Days of Summer, and right now these days feel about as salad-y as any. Like most of the country, it’s way too hot […]  I’m over bacon! I I love it as much as anyone, but I am getting tired of it. It is everywhere, it is in everything, and as much as I love it, I don’t want to eat it all the time! You may not agree, but I think bacon is the new black, it has […]  This blueberry lemon pie is one of my very favorites. I made it almost daily when I owned The Hungry Moon diner, using frozen wild blueberries, long before Wyman’s became a household brand . This recipe is a very adapted version from my Mom’s 1965 copy of Farm Journal’s Complete Pie Cookbook published by Doubleday (if you can […]  We love pie, but it seems like the two times of year Americans eat, make and talk about pie (well maybe that last is just me) are Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July. In the Fall we want seasonal pies like apple, sweet potato, pumpkin and pecan. But it’s summer now, so a pie-maker’s fancy naturally […]  I believe that how we feed a child will determine the type of eater they will grow into. When my daughter was small, I got into a conversation with a co-worker who was complaining about his kids always wanting to eat at McDonald’s. When I told him my daughter did often want to go out […] |
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