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Honey Whole Wheat Rolls + a Locavore Dilemma

February 28, 2012

Consuming a diet consisting of mostly local foods may not be a novel concept, but it sure is making a comeback. Between 2010 and 2011 alone, the USDA cited a 17% increase in farmers markets throughout the United States. As locally-grown, raised, and produced goods become more accessible in terms of location, price, and year-round […]

Learning by Color

February 25, 2012

Last spring I stumbled upon this story describing an artist who had made a mural he called a “Nature Matching System.” Tattfoo Tan used the Photoshop eyedropper tool to pull out colors from photographs of produce he had taken at his local farmers market in NYC. What emerged from this simple activity was a vivid […]

Digging In & Putting Up in 2012: Part I

February 22, 2012

My, how quickly we move from one season to the next. It seems like just last week I was picking big, beautiful heads of Napa out of the garden at Waltham Fields, when in reality it was almost four months ago. I’m sure the freakishly-mild and dry winter we’ve experienced in the Northeast has much […]

Simply Salted Meyer Lemons

February 20, 2012

I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it, I just thought I wouldn’t do it. But then I saw them sitting there. Seemingly unnoticed by the other Saturday morning shoppers. So bright. So fragrant. Tender, yet unbruised. Federal tax refund deposited, I just couldn’t help myself (I wish I could say this in reference to the […]

Still Hungry?

February 18, 2012

Welp, Peter Menzel strikes again. And this time his work is right here in Beantown. The exhibit entitled “What I Eat: Around the World in 25 Diets” is currently on display at the Museum of Science. It is based off of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, a collaboration with […]

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

February 17, 2012

Halfway into my junior year at Bentley University, I switched my major from marketing to media and culture. It really wasn’t such a big deal because of the way I approached my studies. Thanks to high school AP classes and exams, I managed to be almost a semester ahead entering college, allowing me to enroll […]

Grow a SCOBY & Brew Your Own Kombucha

February 16, 2012

I am a lover of food. Plain and simple. I always have a hard time remembering what I absolutely dislike, in terms of flavor and texture, because those items seem so few and far between. As I sit here typing this, the only standout that comes to mind is krill (yes, I said krill). Though […]

When Art, Food, & Society Collide

February 15, 2012

Plan to be downtown or in the Greater Boston area over the next few days? Consider moseying on down to the Boston Center for the Arts to immerse yourself in Caitlin Berrigan’s installation, Spectrum of Inevitable Violence, on exhibit now thru February 19 from 3-5pm. via the BCA’s official website: “Caitlin Berrigan baits her audiences […]

Muhammara

February 13, 2012

I have another blog baby. Well, I guess this one is more of a toddler. I’m going to do my best to remember to link to posts I do there here. If that makes any sense. I leave you with this picture of and recipe for homemade muhammara, a.k.a. you finally have a valid excuse […]

Flavor Learning in Utero and Infancy

February 13, 2012

In the February 2010 issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s magazine, the Observer, University of Florida professor Linda Bartoshuk interviews Julie Mennella, a biologist and research pioneer in the field of chemical senses, on the connections between maternal food consumption and taste preference in offspring. “We cannot easily change the basic ingrained biology of […]