Dylan turned five, and Jim turned ninety. We celebrated with them both. It was a busy, delicious day filled with tasty tidbits—of both food and conversation. Dylan and his parents live in a fourth floor walk-up in Trastevere. Sarah offered me a cafe latte as soon as we arrived, which was welcomed on a blustery [...]
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2 birthday parties (+1 more birthday)
Posted in Bread, Nuts, Poetry, Seafood, Sweet Things, Wine, tagged American Academy in Rome, Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Byron in Rome, eating locally, local food, locavore, locavore Rome, Rome sustainable food, roving locavore on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
On Nantucket
Posted in Seafood, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, bluefish, eat locally, eating locally, eggplant recipe, local eating, local food, locavore, Nantucket local food, Nantucket seafood, Nantucket striped bass, roving locavore, Something Natural Nantucket on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve eaten much more fish in the past two months than I normally eat in a year. I’ve been lucky enough to visit these seafood capitals of the northeast. Eating locally on an island is pretty easy at this season. For Nantucket, in particular, striking a balance between conservation and sustainability on the one hand [...]
en route
Posted in Seafood, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat local Vermont, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, eating locally, local eating, local food, locavore, Nantucket bluefin tuna, Nantucket local food, roving locavore on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re on Nantucket for a bit this week. My cousin’s getting married, so our family (minus Peter, who’s at Breadloaf) is crashing in a mothbally cottage that sits on a rare high hill on this island, and would have a 360-degree view if it weren’t for the fog, clouds, and rain. “It’s ANOTHER blustery day!” [...]
Striper
Posted in Seafood, Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Andrew Orr, basil pesto on fish, eating locally, foodie locavore, locavore, Orr's Farm, pea greens salad, roving locavore, striped bass recipe, Westport Mass. local food, Westport organic farm, Westport striped bass on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a satisfyingly lazy afternoon on the beach, here in Westport, Mass., Peggy and I went to the fish market. It was a bare bones kind of operation, but all of the fish and shellfish was glisteningly fresh and abundant. We decided on striped bass. On the way home, we stopped at the farm stand [...]
oysters
Posted in Seafood, tagged Cape Cod lobster, Cape Cod oysters, Hog Island oysters, Tomales Bay oysters, Truro, Wellfleet oysters on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The oysters we had the other night in P-town were getting spawny. It’s summer–a cool one, but still summer, so the oysters have lost their briny, idiosyncratic edge, the flavor that marks them as a certain species in a certain water. They’ve grown flabby and creamy, inevitably fertile. I’m glad there are cultivated things that [...]
Fun With Fish
Posted in Seafood, tagged Cape Cod lobster, Cape Cod oysters on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the Fourth weekend on the Cape, and, for me, it was an absolute festival of shellfish, topped off with a feast of fish. (More on all that to come…) We were welcomed after the long drive with an easy going dinner at a new fish joint in Provincetown—Townsend’s. My step-father-in-law, Curtis, is a [...]
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