Yesterday, I returned to work and, finding myself seated with my coworkers waiting for a meeting to begin, I asked what I considered to be an innocuous question: What were your favorite Labor Day foods? I was prepared with my answer: “sweet and sweaty” wings and cheeseburgers made with loving attention by my Baby … with …
Category Archives: Kitchen Goddess
What’s in season? Pears
This week, I’ve been thinking about pears. Mmmm. Pears… Pears? I can almost see your furrowed brows. Why pears? you may be wondering and well you might. Apples are, after all, the glory of Albemarle County. We have our own heirloom variety—the tiny, tart Albemarle Pippin—not to mention apple festivals and fall pressings and, my personal favorite, …
“a food chain that’s not cruel”
For the last month of Saturdays I’ve been “working” the Charlottesville City Market. Mmmmm, City Market… Now, those of us who love Charlottesville have long known about the Charlottesville City Market. And what we know surer than celery with our Buffalo wings is that the CCM is no longer the city’s best-kept secret. In high …
Kitchen Propagation, or, The Diary of a Mad Horticulturist
In the nearly six months that I’ve been dating “farm boy”–also known as “Marc”–my friends have come to realize that the whole “farm boy” appellation has been, basically, one of my little jokes. (Actually, a tall joke–the boy’s at least six-four.) Marc is, more properly speaking, a horticulturist (I get corrected when I say “horticulturalist.” …
