Archive for the ‘...in action!’ Category
Peruvian Chocolate
I love chocolate. How happy was I to find, in the heart of Cusco, Peru´s indoor market, a row dedicated to towers of the stuff, laid like bricks in a Wonkian fashion up and down an entire row of vendors. I ...
Yell CUY! If you want to eat guinea pigs.
David Sedaris once wrote that to know a country is to know their Christmas traditions and gun laws. To me, you can get ...
lima la linda
Hola de Lima! GrowingChefs is making its debut as a foreign language blog. Ja, ja. I´m happy to report that despite its desert topography and rocky Mars-esque beaches, Lima is a city full of mangos, angels trumpets (that deadly hallucinogen whose nearly foot-long flowers hang demurly like a ballgown skirt), ...
Teachin’ Plants
In the week leading up to Thanksgiving, I had the fun honor of teaching at my friend Tal’s after school program up in the Bronx not too far from the Botanical Gardens. We talked about lemon balm, beans, carrots ...
Planting Garlic
More than the changing of colors in the trees (which this year, who knows why, has been oddly bland here in NYC), putting bulbs in the ground is a sure sign of fall.
Jerusalem Artichoke: What is this thing?!
This might blow your mind, but the Jerusalem Artichoke is neither from Jerusalem nor an artichoke. It is, in fact, a Girasole (sunflower), with a tasty–if weirdly artichoke-flavored, ...
The family that eats together…
Spoons Across America, a wonderful program for kids (sort of Slow Foods, the junior version) has been touring a delightful number of children through the Tribeca Greenmarket where I sell fruit (apples, for the moment). I am crushing on “Spoons” like no other. I came across this quote ...
Class Prep!
Each Monday when I make the journey up to Connecticut to teach Growing Chefs, I see how much stuff I can fit in my bike bag without toppling over. This was last week’s bounty: about 100,000 lbs of food.