Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 11, 2009, 11:01 pm
For those of you not familiar, the latke is a potato pancake that is customarily eaten during Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights.  The traditional thing about it isn't the potatoes per se (reme...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 10, 2009, 11:01 pm
Okay, let's get ready for Hanukkah, which begins tonight at sunset.  I can't remember a week that went by when I was growing up that there wasn't sour cream in the fridge.  Even ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 9, 2009, 11:01 pm
Hannukah begins tomorrow, which means time for latkes, of course.  Considering how ubiquitous this potato is, it's a bit astonishing to consider calling it an heirloom, but indeed!  Luth...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 8, 2009, 11:01 pm
I originally planned this post for an "Heirloom Thursday" but I was surprised to find that this is a completely different genus and species from the common bean.  While stocking our larder this f...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 7, 2009, 11:01 pm
Any American reading this is going to wonder "What in the world are you talking about?" But yes indeed, milk from the water buffalo is the 16th most common food consumed by mankind, and mostly not as ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 6, 2009, 11:01 pm
This first week of keeping a food waste diary has gone remarkably well, perhaps because I am keeping a diary!  I've been more aware of what's on my plate and have been extra careful to ta...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 5, 2009, 8:15 am
Okay, I'm definitely an under-utilizer of smoothies.  But this simple recipe from Food & Wine sounded delicious and I made it for lunch today - highly recommended!  This makes ample for ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 3, 2009, 11:01 pm
The pomegranate is my favorite fruit.  I can't remember how old I was when I was first introduced to them, but they were just about the most exotic food you could find in Iowa.  It's...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 2, 2009, 11:01 pm
Oh my darling, oh my darling - it's that time of year again.  Boxes of "Sweetie" clementines are showing up in all of the supermarkets, straight from Mulholland Citrus.  These little man...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Dec 1, 2009, 11:01 pm
I would now like to share some thoughts that arose from reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, which I finished over Thanksgiving weekend.  This book has already received a heavy amount ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 30, 2009, 11:01 pm
They might fall just behind apples as the most popular fruit in America, but their wide consumption as a fruit and a starch source makes bananas contender #17. History: Bananas are tropical herbs tha...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 29, 2009, 11:01 pm
When I first began reading about, thinking about, and writing about food, one of the statistics that stunned me the most was the sheer amount of food waste.  I'm not talking about inedible bi...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 24, 2009, 11:01 pm
(A day early - I'll be taking the rest of the week off to enjoy Thanksgiving with family and friends - see you Monday!) Sarah and I stumbled across Green Meadows Farm in Ipswich a few months ago,...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 23, 2009, 11:01 pm
There are more of them slaughtered every year than any other animal, and the official statistics might underestimate how much is consumed due to high levels of local production (especially in Asian co...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 22, 2009, 11:01 pm
For those of us eating turkey this Thanksgiving, 99% of our birds will come from factory farms.  For every 100 birds that land on the table, a large number died as chicks in the mail or on the fa...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 21, 2009, 4:18 pm
This recipe is borrowed and slightly modified from TotallyJewish.com.  I wasn't looking for a Jewish recipe, but rather one that combined sweet potatoes and chestnuts into some kind of soup.&...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 20, 2009, 5:00 am
I have to admit, I've never seen cumin outside a jar.  But I've definitely used it many a time, including for a delicious recipe that you will have to check back tomorrow to learn about! ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 19, 2009, 5:00 am
Onions are a definite staple in our house, and I think every recipe I've posted in the last few weeks make abundant use of them.  The original post I wrote on onions, almost one year ago, was...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 18, 2009, 5:00 am
Sarah suggested I start putting more book reviews up here, because I spend a lot of time reading books about green eating and green living.  She also suggested I start a virtual bookshelf on the ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 17, 2009, 5:00 am
Do people really eat more cabbages than they drink wine?  Yes they do, at least according to statistics that I've found.  When you consider how diverse this single species is, it starts ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 16, 2009, 5:00 am
People often wonder what is the one single most effective thing they could do for the environment.  Ditch the car?  Stop taking airplane trips?  Wash your clothes by hand with reclaimed...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 14, 2009, 9:23 am
Here's a recipe for a delicious dinner for two that keeps on giving.  I'm trying to do the picture thing, perhaps by next week I'll have more of a step-by-step thing going! Part One ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 13, 2009, 5:00 am
Another week, and another visit to our local fishmonger, Wulf's.  This week, they had juicy whole dorade, and we got one to roast.  Unfortunately my head got smashed in by a garage door ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 12, 2009, 5:00 am
It would be more accurate to call this post "F1 Hybrid Thursday," because these pumpkins are definitely not heirlooms.  What they are is tasty, and if you can find them, which should be relativel...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 11, 2009, 5:00 am
With the first hard freeze clearly just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about some of the hardier vegetables.  This is one of those vegetables that is under-appreciated; maybe ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 10, 2009, 5:00 am
I have an inclination for numbers, so when I came across a chart of annual crop production in a book I was reading last week, I was very interested.  I went to the source of this information and ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 9, 2009, 5:00 am
I've been trying to decide what to do with my old Teflon pans for some time.  The thing is, they aren't really that old, just shy of 10 years.  But they have definitely earned some s...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 7, 2009, 9:52 am
Eventually I will get some pictures going of some of these recipes, but for now trust me - this is a festive and delicious Halloween meal.  Thanks to Sarah for creating this memorable meal! ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 6, 2009, 5:00 am
Last weekend, we went to a "stock your root cellar" sale at the Brookwood Community Farm.  This organic farm is nestled into the Blue Hills Reservation and just got started in 2006.  We were...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 5, 2009, 5:00 am
It's easy to find orange foods for Halloween, but how about black?  Black quinoa fits the ticket; after cooking, the exterior is still dark black, contrasting to the very white interior. ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 4, 2009, 5:00 am
One of my patients was kind enough to bring me a bag full of wild-foraged hen of the woods last week.  I haven't tried them yet but they look like prize specimens! History:This multi-headed ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 3, 2009, 8:25 pm
I will freely admit that marketing is not my strong point.  So...after more than a year and more than 300 posts, I bring you Share This!  Yes, I know most blogs have some version of this at ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 3, 2009, 5:00 am
Sarah made a Halloween meal over the weekend that contained, among other things, pine nuts.  We try to eat these on a regular basis, except for an interlude when I blamed them for my contact alle...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Nov 2, 2009, 5:00 am
I hope you all enjoyed Halloween!  One of the streets in our neighborhood closes completely to cars, and all of the houses really do it up.  It was very cool to see hundreds if not thousands...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 31, 2009, 5:00 am
On occasional, perhaps most, Saturdays, I'm going to start posting a recipe based on one or more of the ingredients that I wrote about in the previous week. "Wailing Wall Stew" This is my take ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 30, 2009, 5:00 am
I was inspired by Cook's Illustrated to try my hand at seared sea scallops last week.  It was also the inauguration of my new 12" Teflon-free nonstick skillet, which is the biggest and slippe...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 29, 2009, 5:00 am
Does a true heirloom have to be rare or hard to find?  Probably not, and a prime example would be the jalapeno pepper.  I was tempted to buy a few today, at the last farmer's market of t...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 28, 2009, 5:00 am
I was thinking about roots, and fructose, after yesterday's post.  Which naturally led me to think about sucrose, and one of the biggest sources of it, the sugar beet. History: Sugar beets a...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 27, 2009, 5:00 am
The Brookline farmer's market, which ends for the season this week, has carried mostly what I would call the usual suspects.  Heirloom and exotic varities, for sure, but pretty much what you ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 26, 2009, 5:00 am
For those of you who weren't able to participate in the International Day of Climate Action over the weekend, and even for those who were, take a moment to meet your resident climate beast.  ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 25, 2009, 7:16 pm
Now that I've been using the "cloud" feature to refer to my archives, I've noticed that "commentary" is a pretty generic and not very useful term.  So I've replaced that label with se...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 23, 2009, 5:00 am
It never ceases to amaze me when, after writing this blog for over a year, I still find a very common food that I haven't written about yet.  And so it is with albacore tuna.  I've w...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 22, 2009, 5:00 am
For this post, I'm going back almost all the way to the beginning of the blog; my second food post was on snap beans.  Similarly, I'm going back a month or so in my mind, to the height of...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 21, 2009, 5:00 am
Back to Georgia again.  We stumbled across a local-ish food stand in Union Point, the same place where I got a bunch of scuppernongs.  Sarah found a big pile of dried hibiscus flowers, also ...
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Jeremy Warner posted an article on Basic Eating - Oct 20, 2009, 5:00 am
I have a vague memory from childhood of my father making some sort of okra dish for company that came out quite ghastly.  Needless to say, okra was neither talked about or served during my upbrin...
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