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Tools for Eating Locally

One thing we start nudging you toward in the second half of the Kitchen Cure when we actually start cooking is eating seasonally and locally. It should be a no-brainer and you shouldn't feel like you'...

Fishing in the City: Boston Ponds Stocked for the Season!
Boston

Bostonians, you don't have to travel far from home if you'd like to do a little fishing this summer! Many lakes and ponds right in the city are annually stocked with fish by the Division of Fisheries ...

What To Do With Ramps

Each year in April, those of us here in the Northeast kick off the local and seasonal eating brouhaha with a little chat about ramps. If you live in the west or the south and have been nibbling on str...

Maple Syrup Cocktails: A Sweet Way to Celebrate Spring
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

It’s sugaring-off season. As spring creeps across the maple forests of the Northeast, the sweet, watery sap is rising, ready to be tapped from the trees and boiled down to a dark, rich syrup. So wh...

Farmers' Market Report: Apples, Apples, and More Apples
New York

While Sara Kate is visiting Los Angeles and finding avocados, asparagus, and strawberries (strawberries!) at the Hollywood Farmers' Market, we're looking at the same old scene in Union Square. Apples ...

New Trick: How to Track Your Chicken Back to the Farm

We just read about this on Eat Me Daily (via Slashfood), and we're alternately overjoyed that we can type a code into a website to find out where our chicken grew up and amazed that someone hadn't tho...

Soup Inspiration: The Hale and Hearty Menu
New York

We're big proponents of bringing your lunch to work; it's almost always cheaper and healthier. But when we don't, we frequently visit Hale and Hearty. We usually come away with soup plus some recipe i...

Adieu to Joseph Ades, The Gentleman Peeler of Union Square

We learned the news yesterday when the NY Times called asking for permission to use our photo of Jim Ades, the famous carrot peeler of Union Square (and occasionally other parts of the city.) He was ...

How Far Does Your Food Travel?

It's easy to talk about eating foods grown and raised locally, yadda yadda yadda, but sometimes sourcing fresh, local produce is not so easy to actually do, especially in the dead of winter. Air-freig...

Holiday Tip: Buy Sustainable Caviar On A Budget

Perhaps you'd like to add a touch of elegance to your holiday party, or give someone a special gift. Why not caviar? "But we're in a recession! The economy is terrible! Who can afford that stuff?" ...

Online Resource: Regional Best

RegionalBest.com is a new e-commerce site offering hundreds of foods that are raised, caught or produced by local artisans. Foods appealing to me right now are Maryland blue crab cakes, Idaho grass-fe...

Hot Coffee Cocktail: Café Brûlot

We came across this spiced and spiked after-dinner coffee while researching traditional dishes from Louisiana and haven't been able to stop thinking about it! With flavors of orange, clove, and bran...

Wooden Spoons Make a Simple, Personal Gift

As the gifting frenzy begins, we have a recommendation for a thoughtful, affordable present that's totally personal and just a little bit luxurious. Check out these hand-made wooden spoons after the j...

Southern Tradition: Sip 'n' See

A friend of ours with southern roots recently had a baby, and while she was home over Thanksgiving, she told us her family held a "Sip 'n' See" so everyone could meet the new family member. We'd never...

Sense of Place: Round-Up of Regional Cooking and Recipes

How appropriate that we've come full circle on our tour of regional American cooking right before Thanksgiving! Thanks, everyone, for sharing your own insight and stories (and corrections!) along the ...

Farmers' Market Report: Indian Corn
New York

We saw big piles of Indian corn all over the Union Square Greenmarket the other day. It's so colorful and pretty and... edible? Is it? Find out......

What's in a Name? The Boston Cream Pie

While it's not a technically a pie, we couldn't let our Best Pie Bake Off go by without at least giving a nod to this New England classic! Check it out......

Sense of Place: The Food and Cuisine of Louisiana

A word of advice: If anyone from Louisiana offers to cook you dinner, just say yes. The food from this region will light your taste buds on fire - sometimes both figuratively and literally! For those ...

Look! Food Images From a 13-Mile Trek Down Manhattan

Yesterday, under sunny skies and brisk air, Maxwell and I led our fifth annual walk down Broadway, starting at the top of Manhattan at 220th Street, and ending at Battery Park, with a sunset view of L...

Seasonal Spotlight: Seckel Pears

Seckel pears are the smallest pears on the market, and they are also considered the sweetest (they're often called sugar pears for that reason). We've been getting these little plum-sized pears in our...

Seasonal Cooking: Interesting Things To Do with Turnips

Turnips, on their own, don't look particularly interesting. They're not kohlrabi or daikon (maybe Asian vegetables just sound more interesting?) and we often think the humble turnip is outshone by its...

Sense of Place: The Flavors and Ingredients of Louisiana

Like Florida and Alaska, we felt that the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana deserved a mention all their own. Here you see a blending of Native American, French, Spanish, and African influences t...

Harvest Cooking: What's Inspiring You?

It's Harvest month at The Kitchn, and we've been spotlighting a different local ingredient each week. Last week it was local apples, and the week before that it was local cheese and a look at buying f...

In Season: Daikon

Daikon are large, white Asian radishes used primarily in Japanese cooking. We've been getting them in our CSA lately, and we've got a tip on what to do with them......

Harvest Spotlight: Local Apples

Apples are one of the most familiar signs of harvest. They are wildly common this time of year, bouncing out of farmstand bins and piled up at the market. And yet they're available year-round, the Red...

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