Sunday Photos: Dupont Farmers’ Market

Okay, there’s no getting around it.  The following photos are pure food porn, taken this morning at the Dupont Circle Freshfarm Market.

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Urban Foraging, Facilitated

Lately I’ve had foraging on the brain, and specifically I’ve been wondering about urban foraging in a place like DC.  Traditionally, of course, foraging connotes going out into the wild to find naturally occurring foodstuffs.  But I suppose there’s no reason people shouldn’t help the process along.  The Washington Post’s All We Can Eat blog [...]

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Spring Round-Up: What Worked, What Didn’t

It’s almost June, and I can now make some assessments of the spring crops. There are some things that I’ll grow more of next year, and some things that don’t seem worth planting again. Radishes: The regular radishes were great, especially when they were small. I didn’t care for radishes before this, but these were [...]

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The Roses of DC

The DC blog Prince of Petworth is fabulous in many ways, but some of my favorite posts are those in which the blogger posts photos of houses and storefronts and everyday neighborhood scenes from his walks around DC. When we think of the term “sightseeing” we think of visiting some important landmark or destination. Routine [...]

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Zucchini Proliferation

Less than a month ago, the cucurbits were just cotyledons pushing up out of their peat pots.  I planted them outside maybe three weeks ago, and every week since then they’ve more than doubled in size.  In twelve days, the zucchini went from this: to this: There are baby zucchini and summer squash in the [...]

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Truffle Envy

There are a few big fir trees around my family’s house in Olympia, Washington, and on a couple of occasions my mother has found truffles near the firs’ root systems. For clarity, she had one tested and they are indeed Oregon White Truffles. Just this weekend she found another trove of them: Except for the [...]

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