Last night, I tried bacorn for the first time: little bits of bacon with a homemade caramel on the kernels…but I’m getting ahead of myself. Just before I left for Linz a few weeks ago, my wonderful friend Mike of RoadTrip Nation was in town, and since Roadtrip Nation puts college students on the road [...]

In my last post, I included video, slides, and the rough transcript from my presentation last weekend in Linz, Austria for Ars Electronica as part of the Cloud Intelligence Symposium. In curating the symposium, David Sasaki also created “An Outsider’s Guide to Linz.” This post is an extension of his excellent guide with video and [...]

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, 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 [...]

Wednesday morning the cut flowers at Union Square Greenmarket winked at the heat, and some of the bouquets looked like the season ahead, some like the height of summer, near the beautiful berries of Berried Treasures that were profiled in the Serious Eats video on Mountain Sweet Berry Farm this week. My favorite booth, Evolutionary [...]