It’s a strange world we live in. Here in Canada, we’re in full harvest mode, enjoying corn and zucchini and fresh tomatoes (sun ripened!) and beans and and and… We have so much food that we in North America throw almost half of it in the garbage. Then, on the other side of the planet, […]
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I was walking through a park on the weekend and came across a farmer selling food. He’d set up a few tables outside a church and had some vegetables, maple syrup and fresh eggs on offer. I bought some eggs, the last four that he had of his neighbour’s morning collection. They were big and brown
On CBC Radio’s the Current this morning, there was some discussion about whether or not today’s interest in resurrecting the family farm was merely nostalgia for a romanticized notion of the past or whether ditching the industrial farm was a real and sustainable plan for the future of our food system. Of course, I am inclined to
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After the final installment in the CBC Radio Here&Now comfort food series, I didn’t post Latifa’s Afghan turnip soup recipe. Well, the delay has caused chaos. In case you are one of the many looking to make this soup, here’s the recipe, in Latifa’s own words. Apologies for making you wait! Turnip Soup Ingredients: 1
My article about the rise of the root cellar (below) was first published by The Globe and Mail on Wed, Nov. 03, 2010. The readers comments on the Globe’s site are a wonderful window into how Canadians relate to their veg! How great to hear from so many readers across the country! They tuck them into the cold corners
Yesterday’s Jane’s Walk was incredible! Author Lorraine Johnson and I met up with 136 people who are interested in urban agriculture for a walking tour of the area around Trinity Bellwoods Park. We tasted Red Bud flowers and talked about the role of greenhouses in a local and sustainable urban foodshed. We discussed urban agriculture
I stayed up way too late last night reading Mark Kurlansky’s compilation of depression era food writing titled The Food of a Younger Land (with an extremely long subtitle). What a gem! A window into another time when people made food a big part of their lives, when cooking was something you did because you had to
My parents called me up from the farm the other day to ask me how many bushels of organic apples I wanted–for free. They had been visiting their neighbours’ organic apple farm and had witnessed a sad sight. The now-ageing farmers can’t sell their beautiful organic apples and so the fruit are falling to the
I can’t sit at my desk longer than 30 minutes this morning without resisting the temptation to pop out to the back deck to check on the progress of my apple leather that I am trying to dry in the November sun. I can’t tell if it is working yet–there is condensation the glass of
I came across an old Acadian recipe for pancakes in a back issue of The Canadian Organic Grower that calls for snow! Apparently, after a heavy snowfall, some Acadians still remark that “Il a tombe assez de neige pour faire des crepes,” or, “It’s snowed enough to make pancakes.” According to the recipe notes, provided