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Eating SOLE in Portland, Maine: Fore Street, Gilbert’s Chowder House, and Hugo’s
Got a little time to explore the dining scene of Portland, Maine? Change your plans: you’ll actually need lots and lots of time to do it right. Word on the street is that the East Coast Portland is second only to San Francisco in restaurants per capita. We’re not talking Applebee’s, either. The city is filled with restaurants that make regular
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Closing the loop: Turning city food and garden waste into fertilizer
During a break between meetings at the office, one of my coworkers asked, "So, Marc: got any vacations planned?" "Just a little one. I'm going to the Vacaville landfill next Friday," I replied. His eyebrows raised a little bit, and he responded with a quizzical tone, "Hmm...that's an interesting choice.
Postcard from Portland, ME: Even Andrew Zimmern knows that Rabelais is the place to be
Should you find yourself in Portland, Maine, on the first Friday of the month, you can participate in the monthly art-walk, a self-guided tour of local galleries, studios, museums, and other venues. There are plenty to choose from —62 venues in June ’08, to be exact. One of those venues might Rabelais.
Ethicureans, meet the Eggicureans: A visit to Michigan’s Crane Dance Farm
Mary tries to get the calves interested in the trailer It’s a Wednesday morning and instead of firing up my computer, my cool company is letting me spend
Sometimes you just have to go for a walk
How do I know I've been neglecting the Ethicurean? My mother sent me an email yesterday titled "Now I'm Worried" — not because I hadn't replied to her last three messages, but because I hadn't posted on the blog in ages. Since a few other people have wondered whether I've fallen under a bus, or been
Postcard from Orlando II: Look Closer … at the Farm Bureau
Although I'm no longer standing at the Farm Bureau-sponsored exhibit, The Great American Farm, at Disney's Epcot Center, I can't seem to shake the creepy feeling it gave me. One of the most visible parts of the exhibit are the Look Closer screens, which invite attendees to Look Closer at biotechnology: Prominently
Postcard from Orlando I: Your tax dollars at work
I have just returned from three days in Disney theme parks in Orlando. (No snarky jokes please, at least not from those of you who have yet to push a human out of your nether regions only to discover that children now emerge from the womb begging for a trip to Disney World.) Disney is a fascinating place,
Back to the future: Maryland’s Springfield Farm is new old-school
From Leslie Hatfield
Last weekend, my partner Jaimes and I picked up our friend, Nikki, in a bright yellow rental car and drove about 20 miles outside of Baltimore to Springfield Farm. I'd discovered it through the Comments Off • Read more »
Eating local in Tucson for the holidays
The following is by Ethicurean buddy Rachel Cole. Rachel has worked for Alice Waters's Cafe Fanny,
Chewin’ in Charleston
Noshette and I went down south to Charleston, South Carolina, to attend a wedding of an old childhood friend of hers and we did a little bit of Ethicureanating while we were there. (once the word Ethicurean gets an entry in the dictionary, we'll have to figure out how to conjugate it.) A quick bit of
Foraging in Quebec
This week was Noshette's birthday, and among the many things we did to celebrate was to have dinner at Les Jardins Sauvages, which in English means "the wild gardens", a woodland table restaurant in St.Roch de l'Achigan. (Since I
Getting a feel for Philadelphia’s local-food scene
Note to RSS readers: Flash-based slideshow is embedded in post. When you come from a smaller city in a rural area and your main local-foods choices consist of a couple of upscale restaurants or your own home cooking (with produce from the farmers market, of course), sometimes you want to know what it's
Farm tour: Pressing issues at Hidden Star Orchards
Autumn is apple season in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, an opportunity to taste apples at their peak and remember how good an apple can be. For many, the apple's standing has been diminished by too many cardboard-like Red Delicious apples served as token pieces of fruit on airplanes or at other
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Yes Dorothy, we’re still in Kansas
From our Kansas contributor, Janet Majure, whose blog is Foodperson.com. Note to RSS readers: You're missing a slideshow of images from the farm. Janet's Flickr set has
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Saving seeds for the future: Barton Organic Farm
Though I've lived in this town through twelve summers now, I've only been a faithful farmers-market groupie for the past four or five. I'm not entirely sure why it took me so long to spend my Saturday mornings hiking downtown, hobnobbing with the farmers, and carrying home lots of fresh produce for
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