memoirs of an eclecticist

• To Market, To Market

  Aug 18, 09:45 PM

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  I spend many of my days lately laying my head down in Portsmouth, NH. It’s a not unfamiliar place, and very welcoming. This past weekend, with the Hunter in Alaska, I stayed up here with the dog and made my first pilgrimage to the city farmer’s market.

  It was breathtaking. It was a smile-a-minute. It was glorious. It was summertime.

  Unlike the time of year when strawberries and greens are picked frantically, greedily, desperately, this...

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• Catching Up

  Jul 20, 11:43 PM

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  I started my new job today. This was immediately (and I do mean immediately — maybe even simultaneously) preceded by turning in a draft of my thesis. Phew. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks.

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  There really is a summer this year. It’s finally been warmer and I’ve gotten the obligatory first sunburn. (Say what you will about skin cancer – my self esteem is way higher when I am wearing a nice summer bronze.)...

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• Experiments in Homegrown Eating

  Jun 24, 11:15 AM

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  Q: What do strawberries, scup, pasta, and Cornish Rock chicks have in common?

  A: They are all recent players in my “getting to know your food” trials.

  I picked close to 15 pounds of strawberries the weekend that Tony Andrews Farm opened. It’s roughly 3 minutes from home and the plants were loaded with beautiful, brilliant red berries. I picked and picked and picked until my knees and thighs said “no more!” But then I picked...

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• Festival Season & PRN

  Jun 24, 11:15 AM

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  The Telluride Bluegrass Festival was last weekend. It’s one of those “I’ll get there one day” events I fawn over from afar every year. When I imagine jobs I might try I think I could handle being a teacher solely because it would allow me to pack up and go to TBF —> NWSS every year.

  So I figured it was time to talk music again because there’s lots of new...

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• Ode to Radishes

  Jun 5, 06:06 PM

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  A brief garden update: I have been eating radishes and enjoying lettuce and herbs. Radishes are delicious but sometimes so pretty they’re difficult to eat.

  

  The tomatoes are looking very happy and I believe I have now collected at least 7 varieties in the garden. Some heirloom, some hybrid, which makes me feel a little sleazy but we’ve all got to start somewhere.

  

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  Filed under Outdoors, Food and tagged with chickens, dogs, garden, outside, plants, radishes, vegetables.

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• jane (Honey Coconut Blackberry Sauce)

  i totally went to that same hole-in-the-wall in Harvard Square. I wonder if we were ever there at the same time…

• Amanda Christiansen (To Market, To Market)

  Your posts continue to inspire me to work harder to buy fresh, local produce. I missed my farmers market this week and am now …

• michele (To Market, To Market)

  lovely post, my dear.

• Tom (To Market, To Market)

  Makes me yearn for the years the wife and I spent heading to that market. Luckily, we’ve been lucky finding great alternatives here on the …