Part 1: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Just ask your dinner.
Think about food and you think, sooner or later, about circles. About cycles, and roundness. Whether we ever consciously know and acknowledge it or not, by being born on this round globe we sign a...
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We interrupt these slow-moving meditations n the largest, deepest nature of food and eating (Part 1 and Part 2 of Will the Circle Be… with Part 3 still to come) o to bring you… garlic. In Vermont,...
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I remember being on Good Morning America — early spring, 1993 — with less clarity than I do the Sunday afterwards. When, in the kitchen of the restaurant I then owned, I was standing over a 16-inch...
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“Famous Glastonbury Connecticut Peaches,” announces the hand-lettered, laminated sign at my favorite farmstand, Walker Farm, in Dummerston, Vermont. Glastonbury’s about an hour and a half south of...
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