This morning, I picked up my CSA box from Bee Heaven Farms to find beautiful carrots with the tops on, and a suggestion in the CSA newsletter to use the carrot greens for pesto. Here’s the rest of the box: Continuing on to the Coral Gables farmers’ market, I watched the fried green tomatoes demonstration: [...]

I made lunch slowly today, roasting small red potatoes slicked with oil, then placing fried local eggs on top. The beautiful orange yolks spilled onto the potatoes, making a dressing of sorts, and I thought about last night’s unhurried dinner event at Creek 28. Slow Food Miami, described online as the “home of the international [...]

is a curious thing / makes me laugh / makes me sing…more than a feeling—that’s the power of lunch. Like that perfect karaoke song that includes an air guitar riff, simple lyrics that can be spoken/shouted instead of sung, and an ending the audience will clap for (“The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and [...]

My sister Kassandra, who was just in Miami this past week, is making some decisions soon about where she might dance next. One of her options involves a car headed North, so this is a roadtrip mix for her (and you) to crank. If you’ve met Kass, you know her incredible energy onstage and off, [...]

 

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On Thursday, I found these unusual mulberries (Morus macroura) at the Redland Organics stand at the Bayside Farmers’ Market in Miami. Like the jackfruit I found this summer at the South Florida fruit stand Robert is Here, the mulberry is composed of separate drupelets (individual female flowers) within the whole fruit. In the past few [...]