Figs will always be associated with some of the happiest times in my life, and with the geographical locations of this happiness. I think of the black mission figs rolling down the steep sidewalks of the Berkeley hills, too plentiful to collect before the early autumn sun softened them too much. Homeowners guarded their Meyer [...]
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figs and frangipane
Posted in Baking, Fruit, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion, fig frangipane tart, fig recipe on October 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
apple picking
Posted in Baking, Fruit, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion, apple crumble, apple picking Minnesota, roving locavore on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the first day that really felt like fall. It was in the 50s when we ventured outside this morning to water the plants, and the clouds overhead were rushing by. Because of these early signs, I got it into my head that apple picking would be the perfect thing to do. It’s a [...]
fruits of August
Posted in Baking, Fruit, Sweet Things, tagged cherry clafoutis recipe, english-thyme.com editing, Hogwash Farm, Luna Bleu Farm, Mon Vert Cafe, Vermont local food on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
These sweet little heirlooms are from Luna Bleu Farm in South Royalton, Vermont. This was one of the farms that got me hooked on supporting local organic farmers. I was in college, taking a journalism course, and the assignment was to write a profile, so I interviewed the owner, Suzanne Long. Her dedication to living [...]
hot oranges
Posted in Baking, Fruit, Sweet Things on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Remember when M.F.K. Fisher warmed tangerines on the radiator? Well, less elegantly and inadvertently, I just invented a new snack for myself: hot orange. I decided this morning to make that orange-scented olive oil cake again, and, attempting to multitask, I popped an orange in the microwave to take the chill off and proceeded to [...]
It’s done.
Posted in Cheese, Fruit, Restaurants, Whimsical, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Cafe Necci, eat locally, local food, locavore in Rome, Rome locavore, roving locavore on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My dissertation, that is, is done. Sadly, so is our packing. We’ve been saying goodbyes to good good friends here in Rome, and will leave on Thursday. It’s an anticipated sadness and loss, so it’s one that ebbs and flows, comes and goes at unexpected moments. Life goes on, too, as do the food and [...]
food in art: grapes and whales
Posted in Fruit, Philosophical, Seafood, Water, Whimsical, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, food in art, Moby Dick, roving locavore on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At a junction of thoughts that represents some substance of my life right now: a chapter in Moby Dick; a talk about food in high art given by Leonard Barkan; the local-food-movement mantra know your food, know your farmer; swimming, during which activity my thoughts form folds with each lap and the thought that my [...]
primavera
Posted in Dairy, Fruit, Nuts, Sweet Things, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, eat locally, Fior di Luna gelato, local food, locavore Rome, Rome sustainable food, Trastevere gelateria on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The gelaterias are opening their doors. Puddles in the cobblestones sparkle in the sunlight. Rainstorms are rushing through, and leaving in their wake warm spots and green buds. During one of these post-rain spells yesterday, Jack and I walked down to Trastevere to buy a birthday present for Agnese, whose party is today. Our favorite [...]
juice of the just-plucked blood orange
Posted in Drinks, Fruit, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, blood orange, citrus cocktail, eat locally, Italian orange, local food, locavore, locavore Rome, mimosa, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore, Tarocca orange on December 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The day after Christmas: rain, cleaning up all done, children melting down, boredom, no hot water for a cathartic shower (again! really! what’s up with that?)…. For the fifth time today, Jack whined, “Mommy, I’m hungry.” I looked around the kitchen—not much there. Then I remembered the orange trees. Let’s go pick an orange to [...]
the Mediterranean diet as cultural heritage
Posted in Cheese, Dairy, Drinks, Fruit, Grain, Pasta, Philosophical, Seafood, Sweet Things, Trends, Vegetables, Wine, tagged agricultural biodiversity, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Bioversity International, Diversity for Life, Italian food culture, Mediterranean diet, roving locavore, UNESCO Italian diet, UNESCO Mediterranean diet on October 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Italy’s Parliament voted unanimously this summer to recommend that UNESCO list the Mediterranean diet as endangered, so that it might be protected and preserved as a part of cultural heritage. I’m interested in this public declaration, in part, for its semantic implications. Can a diet be treated as an aesthetic or religious object, or as [...]
pomegranates in hell and paradise
Posted in Fruit, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, locavore Rome, Rome locavore, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s luxuriant post-Romantic Persephone, holding the fruit that completed her curse and imposed the season of winter on the world. Abducted by Hades, and held in his realm, she was tricked into eating four seeds of the pomegranate. Every year thereafter, she was forced to spend four months in the Underworld. [...]
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