Posts under ‘Vegetables’

“You look awfully chipper today,” said one of my coworkers the morning after my lip-blistering experience with the padrón peppers. “I’m not sure why,” I said. “I’m just rarin’ to go!” She suggested perhaps it had been the peppers, which launched me into a further discourse about their fiery power. And then I admitted the [...]

On Saturday night, I went to Contigo with a friend and learned, sadly, that they were sold out of that night’s padrón pepper menu item. On Sunday, I thought I’d remedied this when I located some red, luscious padróns at Happy Boy Farms’ stand at the Jack London Square Market. I brought them home, posted [...]

At my office, we spend an awful lot of time thinking about food systems and ways to get fresh fruits and vegetables in the hands of underserved communities. This is just one of the reasons I love my job—how many people get to go to work and do something that actually aligns with what they [...]

When I was a little kid, my Grammy used to cook up beet greens studded with tiny baby beets, a dish that I both dreaded and adored. Finding the little beets were like going on a treasure hunt, but I always found the greens too bitter for my taste. That has all changed as an [...]

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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 promised I’d share a few recipes that use the roasted vegetable stock, and the first one is one of the recipes that I planned to post as part of my write-up of the Hunger Challenge, but just never got around to organizing. This particular recipe is incredibly simple, quick, nourishing and tasty. When I [...]

I have no excuse for buying vegetable stock my entire life. I don’t know why I thought tetra packs of the stuff contained some kind of non-creatable magic, but I finally broke out of this silly habit of consumption this weekend and tried making my own. This particular kind required a couple of hours of [...]

I walked into the office kitchen today, where one of my coworkers was heating up her lunch. “It’s the last of the broccoli soup,” she said. “From the last of the broccoli.” Just last week we’d been talking about broccoli and its nature, the single big head it grows, and then, once that’s gone, the [...]

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 [...]