Like the first line in the Wilson Phillips’ classic “Eyes Like Twins,” I was smiling as I visited the Coral Gables market this morning. Two weeks without my CSA farm box (today’s box is heavy on the squash), and I was ready for Florida citrus, beans and tomatoes in season, and chard. Go early enough [...]

In the key of B. My friend Holly wrote me tonight that she took the same beets I found at the Coral Gables farmers’ market on Saturday and made a beautiful carrot-beet-shallot soup and folded the beet tops into an omelet. Inspired, I took out my guitar (I know, story for another time) and decided [...]

The narrator’s words in Mrs. Dalloway (“How fresh like frilled linen clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays the roses looked,”) fit perfectly at the Pinecrest market this weekend—my friend Jessica turned to these frilled orchids and grabbed my arm. Nearby, these alluring orchids looked as if sultry insects had tracked across the petals. [...]

My beautiful friend Jenne drove with me to the end of the world today–or, at least, what felt like the end of the world as the road ended and we got out to look around. She smiled as we heard the sounds of things uncivilized approaching… and an ATV trio rumbled past in their mudded [...]

…and so I drove to the end of the turnpike yesterday afternoon, and met Jessica and Al for a tour of South Florida. Awash in the interesting mix of high and low culture, we arrived at Robert Is Here, the fruit emporium that began in 1959 as a roadside stand. Perusing stacks of sugarcane that [...]