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Bounty hunters: A review of two new local-foods cookbooks

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on June 7, 2011

As the local food movement expands and the numbers of small farms, CSA programs, and farmers markets increase, so grows the crop of cookbooks aimed at helping people make the best use of that seasonal bounty. Following in the path of Deborah

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Book review: Appreciating Elizabeth Andoh’s “Kansha”

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on February 14, 2011

Elizabeth Andoh is a prominent figure in my cooking consciousness. Her 2005 book, Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen, opened

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For when you Karo too much: In honor of MLK, Jr. Day, my great-grandmother’s pecan pie recipe

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on January 17, 2011

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a big fan of pie, supposedly. (Who isn't?) A few years ago, Austin, Tex. artist Luanne Stovall was baking a buttermilk one in honor of the civil-rights activist and decided to turn sharing it into a

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I am woman, hear me store: Review of “The Complete Root Cellar Book”

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on October 20, 2010

Now that the farming season is winding down along with my energy levels, I find that I’m really grateful that the food preservation method I lean on most for the produce harvested

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Cooking outside the zone: Agretti, paired with fregola

By Marc R. aka Mental Masala • on August 13, 2010

At last week's farmers market, one of my outside the zone choices (made in honor of National Farmers Market Week) was agretti (Salsola soda) from La

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Yes, we can… and we relish it!

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on March 20, 2010

Last Sunday, I started the day by catching up on email and blogs and stumbled through a link to a recent Slate article panning the art of canning. Deriding it as a "cultish hobby" loaded with "self-congratulation," author Sara Dickerman dismissed home food

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Souped-up meals to warm up snow days

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on February 14, 2010

Every time I've looked out the window this week, I've felt a childlike glee at the sight of all the snow piled up. A whopping 18" dropped in 24 hours last weekend, a few more inches covered that earlier this week, and more is in the forecast. I really sympathize with the folks further south (south!)

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Happy Easter! Celebrate spring with an apple-and-onion tart

By Stephanie P. • on April 12, 2009

Easter is a big deal where I grew up in the Midwest, at least in the circles my family traveled in. Sunday church service, where we sang "The Old Rugged Cross," Easter dresses and hats, pastel ties, egg hunts, and plastic grass were all part of the revelry. Perhaps the most memorable part of all of it

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Review: Real Food For Healthy Kids cookbook

By Ali • on March 9, 2009

I talk a lot of smack about sustainable food. About the unexpected pleasures of farmer’s markets, about voting with one’s fork, about "local economies" this and "food miles" that. But here’s my dirty little secret: it wasn’t that long ago that I fed my daughter a steady diet of chicken nuggets,

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Loafing in a cold climate

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on January 25, 2009

Winter weather has provided us with a never-ending topic of conversation lately: the storms pummeling the upper Midwest, the guesses as to how much those storms might repeat themselves here in northern Ohio, how

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The eat is on: A virtual Victory Garden potluck

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on September 1, 2008

If you've strolled through your local farmers market lately, you've noticed that for most of us around the continent, we're seeing the peak of harvest season. Farmers pile their tables high with intensely red tomatoes,

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Anything zuke can do…

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on August 4, 2008

Every summer I look forward to each crop coming into its own, and I dream about all the wonderful dishes I'll cook or the preserves I'll make for winter. I'm even learning to appreciate some produce that gets less

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Weed’em and reap

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on July 4, 2008

Now that our Victory Gardens are starting to burst with the fruits (and vegetables) of our labors, those of us who have just recovered from the physical exhaustion of planting the crops find there's "no rest for the

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Perfect pinch: Saving pennies by cleaning out the pantry

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on May 7, 2008

A little over a year ago, many of us took on the Penny-Wise Eat Local Challenge and found ways to minimize our food spending for one week.

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If you’re ever in a jam (to clean out the pantry)

By Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen • on March 29, 2008

As March draws to a close, I start counting the weeks until the farmers market returns. (Ten, thanks.) After a long winter rounded out by a handful of late snowstorms, I'm really looking forward to the first local salad of mixed greens, the first

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