Right Now: Walnut Harvest!
Walnut harvest is from September to November in California. Last week, I was invited by the California Walnut Commission to see the walnut harvest at a farm near Gustine, CA. We visited a walnut f...
Walnut harvest is from September to November in California. Last week, I was invited by the California Walnut Commission to see the walnut harvest at a farm near Gustine, CA. We visited a walnut f...
We spent a chilly morning at the Dane County Farmers' Market in Madison, Wis., this past Saturday and despite a few early snow flurries, harvest season was still in full swing. ...
We're always inspired by Martha Stewart's gardens (and, of course, jealous of her gardening staff and vast expanse of property). But this display of pumpkins and gourds just feels like the perfect i...
Spell to Be Said Upon Departure by Jane Hirshfield What had come here to do having finished, shelves of the water lie flat. Copper the leaves of the doorsill, yellow and falling. Scarlet the bird th...
Given the fleeting nature of everything, this morning's meditation is on appreciation. There's a lot of ways to work with appreciation. You can pull out a pen and paper and list all the things you l...
It's already the middle of June, and for those of you who started your vegetable gardens earlier this year, have you been harvesting anything yet? I am at my mother's house in the North Georgia Mount...
These beautiful, shiny brown nuts start showing up in piles in the fall and winter. I never had chestnuts growing up - they just weren't a staple in my household. The first time I had them was in Pa...
Here's a quick, flavor-boosting tip we've been using with our acorn squash lately. ...
Dana's post earlier this week and her recipe for delicious baked persimmon slices with cinnamon reminded us of the traditional and famous snack of dried persimmons. This woman is drying persimmons by ...
Here's a good question about harvesting peppers from reader Amy: My peppers did not ripen before the frost. Is there anything that I can do with these so that they will still ripen or any way to pr...
Did you know that over 450 million tons of rice are consumed every year? It's a daily staple for millions of people, and after maize, it is the second most consumed cereal grain in the world. Our gall...
Rice is a beautiful crop. We had a hard time choosing photos to show here; there are so many beautiful images of that ancient food staple and its harvest. Here are just a few shots of rice and some of...
Olives! Olives, grown for food and oil, are one of the most ancient crops in human history. The groves of olives in some of these photos are hundreds of years old, clinging to hot, dusty hillsides in ...
This week we're looking at what's inspiring you during harvest time. What are you cooking with, and what sort of harvest bounty do you have? So we asked what is inspiring you, and reader FlyLittleBird...
We have a trustworthy method for making sweet and spicy acorn squash, but there's one downside: it's slow. So we perked up when we saw this alternate method from Alicia and Summer at Bread & Honey...
It's Harvest month at The Kitchn, and we're exploring different sorts of harvests from all over the world. Yesterday we looked at tea harvesting from Africa to India. Today we're staying closer to hom...
What does harvest look like? In our part of the world it looks like fields of dried cornstalks, trees full of scarlet apples, and pumpkin patches. In other parts of the world, harvest time may look ve...
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...
It's harvest month here in The Kitchn, so a metaphor from the fields feels appropriate. The one that intrigues me the most these days is fallow time. Technically, fallow refers to not planting seed ...
Take a look at this picture! This table is full of apples that people brought in from their gardens to have identified by experts. ...
Last week we focused on local feta cheese for our weeklong Harvest spotlight. This week it was apples, and judging by your response to our question about favorite eating apples, we think that there ar...
It's harvest time, which means apples, which means that we've already made our harvest apple traditional recipe once - and we'll make it again. What's this recipe? An outrageously amazing apple cake, ...
The post yesterday on Red Delicious apples and their inexplicable popularity in grocery stores sparked a lot of conversation. Now we're curious; what is your very favorite eating apple? Not pie apple,...
It's Harvest Month here at The Kitchn, so we're thrilled to see local food producers highlighted in this week's Midwest food sections. Read on for local cranberries, cheese, wines and lots of recipe...
This is the last post that will reference anything about my recent wedding, I promise. (I think.) But after the wedding cakes, the ice cream, and the butternut pasta, I do believe I saved the best for...