Posts under ‘Travel’

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

I’ve been on the road a lot lately, to one place or another, but most of that on-the-roading has been for fun and personal reasons. This? Not a bad thing. (Thank you, United, for your Double EQM promotion.) Today, I am officially noting for the record that I am in Ocean City, Md., which means [...]

When I was up in Seattle during mid-March, my cousin Mary and I wandered into The Spanish Table, a store that, it turns out, has outposts much more local to me—Berkeley and Mill Valley. But we were in the original, surrounded by pottery and paella pans and food that made me feel like we had [...]

I should have waited until this morning to go to the farmer’s market, but I couldn’t do it. There was a bundle of thyme available at Whole Foods, and I have the Sadie in my sights. I’m a girl that embraces signs, symbols and all kinds of mysterious stuff. On Saturday night, I took one [...]

As I said in yesterday’s post, when I went to college in Staunton, VA, I didn’t spend any time getting to know local food systems, farmers, or artisan producers. But in the ensuing 15 years since graduation, I’ve become more and more interested in eating locally. This is why, when I walked into Staunton Grocery [...]

The food memories I have from my four years at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia revolve more around the adventures than the food. For example, mine was literally the first dollar spent in the Taco Bell when it opened in Staunton, and I may very well have skipped class to make that happen. It [...]

I signed into Flickr at one point yesterday only to see a familiar face next to my stream of latest activity: Joe Ades, who sold vegetable peelers at the Union Square Greenmarket, died this week at the age of 75. I only saw him once, during a 2007 visit to New York City to visit [...]

Over MLK Weekend, I flew out to Reno to meet some friends from Iowa for some skiing, some carousing, and some general catching up in the Lake Tahoe area. On the way up the mountain from Reno, we hit the agricultural inspection station just across the California border, the one I went through on my [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

I’m a huge fan of the Good Food podcast on KCRW, and have been listening to it longer than I’ve been blogging. It was one of the podcasts that kept me company on the ride back and forth between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, and while my commute is much shorter here in California, I [...]