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Letter from Montreal: A visit to Jean-Talon Market
Dairy Queen here: To me, one of the best parts of being involved in this blog is getting to read my five fellow Ethicureans' points of view, hailing from different parts of the country and with varying preoccupations. In this case, I think, many cooks just makes for more interesting soup. We would love to publish more guest posts and are also looking
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Guilty pleasure: Canned black bean soup, with MSG
I'm willing to bet that every conscious eater has a skeleton in his or her cupboard — a fetish for a particular corn-syrup-laced treat or microwaveable fat bomb. After all, we're not nuns here. So I'll confess first. My processed-food addiction is to Goya black bean soup. It's unbelievably thick and
Bay Area pastured poultry panic may be premature
Damn. John Birdsall, the East Bay Express's restaurant reviewer, totally busted me on EBX's blog for prematurely panicking about the disappearance of Hoffman Game Birds from the
Grass-FedEx: U.S. Wellness Meats beef, pork, and chicken
Before going to Pensacola this Christmas, I wanted to avoid some of the stress of previous visits having to do with meat. It was easier when I was a vegetarian, and my family eventually got used to thinking about swapping chicken stock for vegetable and so forth. But my "ethical carnivorism" of the past
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A major clucking sound: The great Bay Area chicken shortage of 2007
Which is harder to find, a pastured chicken or its eggs? In the Bay Area, there's way too much demand for both. The CUESA newsletter just alerted me to a sad, sad development: As of this week, Hoffman Game Birds will no longer
A highly subjective “Best of the Bay Area” list
'Tis the season to make year-end lists. In honor of the last day of 2006, here are my ten favorite local delicacies. Amazingly, I had never tasted any of them before this year. 1. Marshall's Farm Marin wildflower honey: I used to think honey came in plastic
Going local in P’cola
Apparently it's squash-appreciation week here at the Ethicurean. (See the Butter Bitch's and Omniwhore's posts below.) The above picture is more about the view from Granny Sweet-n-Sour's deck than it is about the organic butternut squash, but still, ain't it purdy? I bought the squash from Ever'man's
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Provisions Mushroom CSA through Helsing Junction
I've lost track of the post where the local mushroom CSA was discussed - oh, there it is, but I'll give this topic a full post just the same. Provisions Mushroom CSA is piggy-backing on Helsing
There’s a reason eggs are associated with spring
Last weekend, I was making French toast for breakfast, and pulled out the carton of eggs we received with our last beef CSA shipment. Upon opening the carton, I was surprised by how much smaller the eggs are now that the seasons have changed. Where I would normally use two eggs, I used four. As
Winter lettuce in Seattle?
"Guess what I found at the farmers market?" the Butter Bitch announced last Sunday. "Lettuce!" Indeed she had, and she brought a head home as proof. The farmers cover the lettuce in the fields to protect their crop from the late autumn cold in the north. I'm surprised that the trick worked, but wasn't
The Ethicurean Gift Guide: Presents for SOLE foodies
Like it or not, the giving season is upon us. Today marks the start of Shop Local First week in San Francisco (and elsewhere), which culminates with a 40-vendor sale Saturday in Union Square on Saturday. The Mission
Ethicureans out of water: Field trip to the downtown Phoenix market
"I feel like a junkie in a strange town with no drug connection," confessed Omniho to me a few days ago. I knew exactly what she meant. My cousin-in-law and I, along with our respective spouses, have been spending the Thanksgiving holiday in the SOLE food desert of Phoenix, alternating large-group
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Orphans’ options: Thanksgiving tips for non-cooks and holiday orphans
Years ago, a group of friends would organize a potluck Thanksgiving for the "orphans" - people who would not spend the holiday with family for whatever reason. Everyone would bring something, either a prepared dish or a healthy appetite, and we would sit in the living room of the venerable 4th Avenue
Gobble, gobble: A turkey primer and resource guide
Most Americans learned in elementary school that the first Thanksgiving meal was actually a harvest feast with which the Pilgrims celebrated growing their first successful New World crops: corn, squash, and beans. What they didn't tell us was that the first European settlers preferred to dine on salt
We heart mutants
A trip to Boggy Creek Farm this morning was supposed to be sort of like Dairy Queen's CSA challenge -- where you get your box of food from the farm and have a bunch of friends over and you cook it
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