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, [...]
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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 »
Sunday lunch
Posted in Pasta, Salads, Seafood, tagged bottarga on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sicilian style, on a sunny Sunday, with Susan Stewart. It was as sumptuous and soothing as all this sibilance might suggest. Yesterday, we were invited to have lunch with Susan, whom we’ve known mainly through her writing, both poems and literary criticism. I’ve been spending a lot of time with her book Crimes of Writing [...]
seasonal treats: frappe and puntarelle
Posted in Salads, Shopping, Sweet Things, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Carnevale frappe, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, locavore in Rome, puntarelle, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We’re in the season of Carnevale, the forty days before Lent, which used to be, for Italians, one long party, when masquerade meant license. (For some of Lord Byron’s lines on this tradition, check out my fritter post.) Speaking of fritters, frappe—a crispy, ruffled kind of fried dough topped with a blizzard of powdered sugar—is [...]
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 [...]
fagioli borlotti
Posted in Grain, Salads, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, bean farro salad recipe, eat locally, eating locally, fagioli borlotti, local eating, local food, locavore, Rome locavore, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Prettiest when raw, these swirly colored pink and white beans are a satisfying bite-size. I bought a large handful at a market stand the other day, and Jack helped me shell them yesterday afternoon. My idea was to mix up a nice cold bean and grain salad. In some chicken stock, I simmered the beans [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
tomatoes, hot and cold
Posted in Baking, Cheese, Salads, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, Killdeer, local eating, local food, locavore, organic tomato recipe, panzanella, roving locavore, tomato bread salad, tomato salad, tomato tart, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mmmm… I have such a craving for a luscious tomato tart. Roasting brings out such intense flavors. And melted cheese: the deliciousness of the thought speaks for itself. However, it’s pushing 90 today, and I won’t be turning on the oven. How to celebrate high tomato season with something a little simpler, more “rustic” and [...]
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