I love summer meals. Cool, refreshing, and nonchalant; celebrating the spontaneous combination of any variety of flavors without a clash because everything is fresh, fresh, fresh. Tonight in Vermont, I threw together a meal every ingredient of which was local, (with the allowable exceptions of a lemon, an orange, Kalamata olives, some Spanish olive oil, [...]
Archive for the ‘Poultry’ Category
summer smorgasbord!
Posted in Beans, Dairy, Herbs, Poultry, Salads, tagged Killdeer Farm, local Vermont food, panzanella, Strafford Creamery, yogurt sauce on August 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
turkey links
Posted in Poultry on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A food blog with nothing to say on Thanksgiving? Sorry to disappoint, dear readers. Mona and Chris and the RSFP cooked an incredible feast on Thursday. Alice Waters is visiting the Academy. I had lunch with her on Wednesday, but on Thursday, we stopped in at the Academy just for the pre-dinner Puccinis (related to [...]
hosting a Roman dinner party
Posted in Fungi, Poultry, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, Insider's Italy, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, locavore Rome, Rome locavore, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This past Saturday, we hosted our first dinner party here at our Rome apartment. The guests were six parents and five children under age six. It was a swirling whirl of activity, with chair and table shortages, and yet we broke only one wine glass. I had planned the menu around several types of abundance [...]
on braised fowl and Whole Foods
Posted in Poultry, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, braised chicken recipe, moroccan chicken recipe, roving locavore on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I said I’d do a bit more on roasted fowls as a follow-up to that Moby-Dick passage. Instead, last night, I braised chicken legs with Moroccan spices, and stirred it all up with some roasted eggplant. We’re in Brookline for a few days, before we take off for Rome (tomorrow!), so I went to Whole [...]
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 »
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 [...]




