I’d never heard of delicata squash before getting some from my CSA last year, but it’s a new favorite. Delicata is easy to peel and seed, but because of its thin skin it doesn’t store as long as other winter squash. Fortunately, with this recipe I found on the Garden of Eating, it doesn’t last […]

The Boston Local Food Festival was seriously crowded on Saturday. (After elbowing through people for half an hour, Jason and I actually ended up eating lunch at a bar down the street and came back after it cleared out a bit.) There were so many interesting booths, from organic restaurants to local farms to random […]

The Boston Local Food Festival will take place this Saturday, October 2, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Fort Point Channel. Unlike a lot of so-called environmental festivals, this is striving to be a “zero-waste festival.” It’s requiring vendors to serve foods in biodegradable dishware, providing bins for composting as well as recycling, and […]

I think it’s time for another confessional. In the last six months I’ve gotten hooked on caffeine. And since I hate the taste of coffee, it’s taken the form of a Starbucks iced chai latte. It started because I was so tired and thirsty when I got to work on my bike, and now that […]

Between our CSA and our landlady, we received 4 pounds of tomatoes last week. I used some of them in an orzo salad (not as good as with cherry tomatoes, by the way), but still had a bunch left. Since it was hot, we decided to try making gazpacho from a recipe in Mark Bittman’s […]