While I have fallen hard for Brooklyn (as Jay-Z says, Brooklyn / We go hard, we go hard), I’ll confess I am seeing Great Barrington on the side. About a month ago, I drove up to meet Emily and Jeremy Stanton of Barking Dog Farm, had an incredible weekend learning about the strong network of [...]

This morning, the Mushroom Man at Union Square Greenmarket explained the basket next to the Chicken of the Woods mushrooms (below—I like my mushrooms to taste like mushrooms), and the mystery mushrooms looked potent and ancient. Buying elderberries from him (what should I make? a sauce for game or an infusion for cocktails?), I stopped [...]

You might think, as the Whitney Houston lyric goes, that children are our future. I discovered at a dinner party last night that Marc Dennis believes entomophagy is the future, as he stirred crickets into sautéed vegetables after serving appetizers of roasted bamboo worms (a nice umami hit of a bar snack) straight and in [...]

This mix is for you and my younger sister Kassandra, who is moving to North Carolina this weekend for a new dance company; parts of the playlist reflect the influence of my fabulous former PBS colleagues Cameron and Laura. And the title of this podcast is from a lyric that Marilyn Monroe proved some time [...]

 

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This morning, insouciant pink and white flowers at the Union Square Greenmarket defied the heat of the coming day, and nearby were two curiosities: refreshing Mexican Sour Gherkins—a type of heirloom cucumber that sours later, but these have a sweet pop to them now, and for something slightly different, corn shoots sprouted from popcorn kernels [...]