Tag: food
member name: Shava Nerad
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April 12, 2006 09:21 PM EDT --
You can't make these things up. In the email newsletter of The Weekly Standard, conservative Michael Goldfarb is fearful of the progressive's trend to restrict the use of unhealthy substances: . . .
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April 18, 2006 01:33 PM EDT --
When I was a kid growing up in Northern Vermont in the 60's and 70's, tacos were exotic and clementines came in special order boxes at Christmas. I was the only kid in my school who knew . . .
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February 23, 2007 07:19 PM EST --
You figure it might be fun to just cook some potatoes. You don't cook much, but making mashed potatoes just sounds like comfort, and the recipe looks so easy!
So you come home with the potatoes, . . .
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April 29, 2006 09:10 AM EDT --
Well, not only did I go to Haymarket yesterday but a friend invited me to go to the Super88 Market in Malden -- the biggest Asian grocery in metro Boston!
The sun was shining, the breeze was wafting through . . .
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April 17, 2006 07:25 PM EDT --
This sign is in the window of a local supermarket. Any bets they aren't Jewish?
*heh*
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April 28, 2006 08:07 AM EDT --
I am a little chunky -- a size 16, for those who know dress sizes. However, I am strong. I walk daily. Two years ago, a skeptical housemate (who had been raised to believe that . . .
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February 22, 2007 07:46 PM EST --
This week, natural and specialty foods retailer Whole Foods acquired smaller chain Wild Oats for a questionably wise offer of over half a billion dollars. Whole Foods, which started as a hipster/hippie . . .
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June 08, 2007 06:55 PM EDT --
One of the first articles I ever wrote on gather was called Haymarket Expedition, praising the simple pleasures of a Friday afternoon excursion to the biggest open air produce market on the east coast, . . .
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June 26, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
The night before, I spent a few minutes unpackaging a whole chicken. A small chicken. Less than three dollars.
From my counter, I took a lemon which, perhaps, should have been used already, . . .
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June 02, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
[Another reprint from the early 90's, I think -- seasonal and yummy! Although I've always called this a chutney, several of my friends call it salsa when they make it.]
Toss in a bowl and . . .
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May 03, 2006 12:01 PM EDT --
Teri Mills, the great mind and big heart behind the National Nurse campaign, commissioned me to make healthy lunch baskets for the Dean Campaign when they came to Portland, Oregon.
The food baskets . . .
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May 04, 2006 12:10 AM EDT --
Back in 1984, I went back to my home town of Montpelier, Vermont thinking I was moving back to stay. To some extent it was my "you can't go home again" year.
I spent the time . . .
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December 16, 2005 09:22 AM EST --
Sometimes it's a lovely thing to take an evening off from the kitchen and go to a pub with friends. When we lived in Portland, Oregon, there was a McMinamen's pub -- a local "chain" of . . .
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December 18, 2005 02:49 AM EST --
If you're a foodie, you must visit Haymarket when you come to Boston, even if you are only visiting and have no kitchen. The experience of this weekly madhouse disguised as a tossed salad is . . .
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January 10, 2006 12:42 AM EST --
Get a free pint of B&J for signing up for their newsletter. I don't mean to be spammy, but this is about free ice cream. It's foodie related, right?
Conservatives on the site might . . .
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February 01, 2006 01:53 AM EST --
The lowly brussel sprout is a much maligned vegetable. Growing in damp cool climates, this cabbage relative is native to the areas surrounding the English Channel in Europe. It grows like topsy . . .
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January 06, 2006 08:08 PM EST --
Join me and other Gather members from Boston for an evening of foodie adventures! We'll kick off MLK weekend with a sweep of the oldest open air produce market in the country, Boston's . . .
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March 19, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
Horseradish root is now available at supermarkets all over the country. This tough woody tuber was once a staple of colonial kitchens in the US -- a tang of spice when spices from Asia were still . . .
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January 05, 2006 09:18 PM EST --
Watercress has been part of the human diet for time out of mind. Cultivated or gathered on the margins of clean-running streams, it's a pungent, spicy, mustardy green. It's scientific . . .
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January 05, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
Soy sauce is very familiar to American's today, but many people may not realize what a variety of styles are represented under this title.
The usual soy sauce you find at greasy chopstick restaurants, . . .
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