In my last post, I attempted both to recommend Food Inc., and to criticize what I saw as the overly facile closing message (“vote with your fork”). There was more to the event, here at the American Academy in Rome, and there is a positive alternative to the dark suggestion of the film that Monsanto [...]
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braised pork & grass-roots
Posted in Dairy, Grain, Industry, Meat, Philosophical, Shopping, Trends, tagged agricoltura biologica, agricultural biodiversity, American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion food, Biola, eating locally, Food Inc. film, Lo Spicchio, local eating, local food, locavore, Rome locavore, roving locavore on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
marjoram
Posted in Herbs, Meat, Nuts, Pasta, Salads, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, marjoram, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My mind and time have been taken up with other writing projects during the past week—my dissertation, about which I won’t talk here, and my story/pamphlet for Bioversity, about which I will talk, at some later date. But I have to steal a few moments from eighteenth-century literature to do some musing on marjoram. Every [...]
back from Venice
Posted in Baking, Bread, Drinks, Ice Cream, Meat, Nuts, Pasta, Restaurants, Seafood, Sweet Things, Water, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Anice Stellato restaurant, eat locally, eating locally, local eating, local food, Paradiso Perdito restaurant, Venice food, Venice restaurants on October 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Going to Venice for a long weekend is like being transported to a different realm. In this immersed city, we immersed ourselves in grand-scale Renaissance art, long winding walks, gelato, spritz (Amaro—a bittersweet red liqueur—and prosecco), and seafood. What everyone says about the acoustics stands out as a strong sense memory: without the sound of [...]
La Mura
Posted in Fruit, Meat, Shopping, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, locavore Rome, markets in Monteverde Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on September 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I had an interesting personal-historical palimpsestic experience this morning on my way home from dropping Jack at school. I wound my way to the market street, and went to the last stall, where there is a sign saying “Vendita Directa,” meaning that the fruits and vegetables are sold directly from farmer to consumer. I don’t [...]
Pyromania
Posted in Cheese, Meat, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Ascutney Mountain cheese, Cobb Hill cheese, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, goat cheese salad, grass fed beef, Hogwash, Hogwash Farm, Hogwash Farm Norwich, Killdeer, local eating, local food, locavore, Norwich farm, Norwich organic farm, roving locavore, Vermont cheese, Vermont farm stand, Vermont farmers' markets, Vermont grass fed beef, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything was burning yesterday evening. For the most part, in the best way. First, I roasted the two bunches of beets–chioggia and golden–and some of the juice oozed out of the foil onto the cookie sheet. The whole house smelled of burned beet slime. The result of roasting, however, was delicious: warm beet salad dressed [...]
animals and antibiotics
Posted in Meat, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, antibiotics legislation, beef antibiotics, beef history, beef industry, beef sustainability, Cloudland Farm, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, Fresh book, Fresh: A Perishable History, grass fed beef, local eating, local food, locavore, Pollan farmer in chief, refrigeration history, roving locavore, salmon antibiotics, shrimp antibiotics, Susanne Freidberg, Vermont farm stand, Vermont grass fed beef, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am in wholehearted agreement with the motivation behind the New York Times editorial of a few days ago, “Farms and Antibiotics,” and with the legislation it promotes, which aims to drastically reduce the amount of antibiotics used in raising meat. The figures in this editorial are staggering. There are so many good reasons to [...]
On Pork
Posted in Meat, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, eat locally, grilled pork chops, local pork, locavore, organic pork, pork chop recipe, roving locavore, Strafford Vermont, Vermont locavore, Vermont pork on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pork chops, like buttercups, are my Proustian objects. At the taste of a chop, especially one brined in cider or served with applesauce, I’m back on Old City Falls Road, at the big yellow house in Strafford, Vermont. Up the steep hill behind the house and barn—a catch-all space housing tools, lumber, a VW bus, [...]
In Cloudland
Posted in Meat, tagged Amy Campion, Cloudland Farm, locavore, New Hampshire Vermont farmers, roving locavore, Vermont farm stand, Vermont grass fed beef, Vermont locavore on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We had the most delicious meal last night. Sauteed broccoli raab, beet greens, and green garlic from Killdeer, polenta, and spicy grass fed beef sausages. After our morning with the Jersey cows at Thistle Hill in North Pomfret, Vermont, yesterday, we drove up and down the winding roads and along River Road in search of [...]
polpette
Posted in Meat, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, grass fed beef, Italian meatballs, locavore, meatballs recipe, roving locavore, Vermont grass fed beef on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s a comfort, shaping meatballs. Only my fingertips touch, shape, nudge, they are so delicate. Unlike the muscle and torque involved in kneading bread, the pressure here has to be slight. The way you might hold an infant’s foot. Yes, I know. I’m talking about raw meat. But I love making these meatballs in part [...]
First Farmers’ Market in the Northeast
Posted in Cheese, Meat, Vegetables, tagged eat locally New Hampshire, eat locally Vermont, New Hampshire locavore, New Hampshire Vermont farmers' markets, organic asparagus, roving locavore, Vermont asparagus, Vermont cheese, Vermont farmers’ market, Vermont locavore on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a stop at the Norwich Bookstore and Nana’s apartment, we went to the Hanover farmers’ market, on the Dartmouth green. I’d had some pent-up desire for this kind of variety and plenty, and I went a little wild. Jack and I ate half of the bunch of salmon colored carrots right away. Then, after [...]
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