Although Thanksgiving at my mother’s house usually begins with butternut squash, this year, I thought we would start in Brooklyn with cauliflower from the farmers’ market, with the local markets as the beginning for all of this holiday about food. Imagining orange and purple cauliflower I found at Union Square Greenmarket swirling in a soup, [...]

It began with sandwiches. My fabulous friend Laura lives in Venice, California, near Gjelina, where we ordered the finest chicken sandwich with anchovies I’m likely to encounter and a BLT with a fried egg. And so began five food-filled days in Southern California as I relaxed into the sound of the ocean you can hear [...]

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 [...]

I spent last weekend in Linz, Austria at the invitation of the charming and thoughtful David Sasaki to be part of the Cloud Intelligence Symposium on Saturday in the Ars Electronica 2009 Festival. In my next post, I’ll detail my Austrian adventures with this great group of digital activists and, of course, the food. For [...]

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 [...]