Category Archives: Food
Hay now! Instant garden by the bale
So it’s time to plant and you haven’t even tilled your garden yet, or maybe don’t even have a garden space to till. Straw bales can offer a temporary planting option to see you through the seaso......
Eat your landscape
Want landscaping that looks good enough to eat? Trade your flowerbeds for fruits, herbs and vegetables and you’ll have the ingredients to whip up gourmet meals right at your doorstep. Go......
Maple-licious
Now, as the snow melts and the maple trees turn tumescent, it’s sugar-harvesting time.
Miles of plastic tubing may have replaced the traditional buckets, but the end result remains just as sweet......
Celebrating inventiveness in Baltimore
The best way to beat the midwinter blues? Take a road trip to the charm city for a sensory stimulation to carry you through until spring. A quick day trip yielded towering dinosaurs, a glam vers......
Cheesemaking 101
A love of artisanal foods naturally leads to a desire to try your hand at making your own. Unfortunately, my first attempts at the ancient culinary craft of cheesemaking were, frankly, embarrass......
Farm Show food
Sure we know there’s great rodeo riding and sheep shearing to entertain us, rivers of poinsettias and sculpted winter-blooming garden scenes to give color to our winter-weariness, and a cacophon......
Rustic roots
In the dark days of winter, when we tend toward our own hibernation, craving warming fires and cozy meals – nature answers our need.
It is the time of root vegetables, those hidden mysteri......
Mushroom hunting in Latvia
The last time I was in Latvia, I made it a goal to eat some of the country’s great mushrooms at as many meals as possible. A wonderful culture of forest foraging abounds, yielding wonderou......
Gelato fix
Spent the afternoon sampling a preview of gelato flavors from Gelato Di Babbo. Creator Kim Zanni has been pedaling her homemade gelato for several years now, first from a tricycle cart and then ......
Charmed in Baltimore
Baltimore’s mayor has it right.
The way to explore this charming city is by ditching the car.
Whether you hoof it around the Inner Harbor, museum hop by water taxi, or pedal through the we......