You don’t really think “food writing” when you think of Moby-Dick. Has blubber had a comeback in the foodie kitchen as lard has? No, but here’s a statement about food from the whale-obsessed narrator. He’s explaining why he goes to sea as a sailor instead of as a cook: …somehow I never fancied broiling fowls;—though [...]
Archive for August, 2009
broiled fowls
Posted in Poultry, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, broiled butterflied chicken, eating locally, grilled whole chicken, local eating, local food, locavore, roving locavore on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
all about shellfish
Posted in Restaurants, Seafood, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Cape Cod local food, eat locally, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, Mac's Shack, Mac's Wellfleet, roving locavore, Wellfleet clams, Wellfleet oysters on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tropical Storm Danny is pouring long ropes of rain down the walls of the Truro Public Library. I’m taking advantage of the wireless, while Jack negotiates with the hordes of other kids for a few more minutes with the trains. He’s into non-fiction lately, so we’ve just read books about tornadoes, hurricanes, the first railroads, [...]
roadside veggies
Posted in Salads, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Cape Cod local food, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, Mass. local food, Truro on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Late August on the Outer Cape is like one long lazy day. Mornings and evenings are cool, but the sun warms everything in between—except the Atlantic waves. We’ve eaten fish, of course, but the food fun I had yesterday we found by the roadside instead of the seaside. Just down Long Nook Road from Jack’s [...]
the humble egg
Posted in Eggs, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, fritatta, local eating, local eggs, local food, roving locavore, sage fritatta, scrambled eggs, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eggs make frequent but unspectacular appearances on this blog. Like dead metaphors–staples of language we barely notice–eggs are ubiquitous, humble, and very nearly necessary. Aside from windowsill herbs, eggs are probably the easiest foods to find locally. In every little region, you’ll find someone who keeps a backyard flock of laying hens. Just ask around. [...]
Goodbye, Vermont
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After one last wonderful local meal last night, we’re saying goodbye to Vermont until next summer. Goodbye, friends, new and old! Today, The Roving Locavore has a guest post on Tribeca Yummy Mummy‘s blog. Feel like making tomato tart? Also today, we head to Cape Cod for a visit with family before we leave for [...]
Bread Loaf
Posted in Beer, Poetry, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, eat local Vermont, eat locally Vermont, locavore, Robert Frost After Apple Picking, roving locavore, Vermont beer, Vermont breweries, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, not the food staple, but the writers’ conference. I went up to Ripton, VT, to spend the last night of the conference with Peter. It was a great evening. Peter gave a late-afternoon reading of poems from his most recent book, The Lions, in the century-old clapboarded Little Theater. After the reading, some went [...]
roasty, toasty, rainy
Posted in Baking, Fruit, Pasta, Sweet Things, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, berry crumble recipe, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, organic strawberries, roasted tomato pasta recipe, roving locavore, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other rainy night, we had a little casual dinner party with my parents’ best friends of four decades, who happen now to live on the same long dirt driveway in Norwich, Vermont. I’d been wanting to make a recipe from one of my favorite bloggers, Tribeca Yummy Mummy, for roasted tomato pasta with scallops. [...]
raw pleasure
Posted in Salads, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Cedar Circle Farm, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, grass fed beef, Hogwash Farm, Killdeer, Killdeer Farm, local eating, local food, locavore, Norwich organic farm, raw salad, roving locavore, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we got to the Hanover Farmers’ Market yesterday, thunder was rumbling in the not-too-far distance. We wouldn’t be able to linger. I went straight for the Cedar Circle Farm booth, where I was almost overcome by the vivid colors spread before me! I spent all the cash in my pocket on this pile of [...]
carrots and eros?
Posted in Poetry, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, food poetry, hemlock, John Keats, queen anne's lace, roving locavore, wild carrot, William Carlos Williams on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Queen Anne’s Lace season, which always brings to mind my favorite verbal convergence of food and sex: “Queen Anne’s Lace,” a poem by the famously philandering family doctor and truly great American modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. Queen Anne’s Lace Her body is not so white as anemony petals nor so smooth—nor so remote [...]
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