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The List, or To Market, To Market II
September 26th, 2008posted by Caroline Lisa probably has her own Part II for her great post about marketing, but I’m sneaking mine in while I’m thinking of it. I, too, am more of a big weekly shopper than a daily shopper. I like to get in, fill the cart high, and get out fast. I like to [...]
Berries, II
September 22nd, 2008posted by Lisa Caroline’s gorgeous post about berries highlighted one fundamental way that our families are different. We write about the very many ways that our family food cultures overlap in our introduction and some of the ways that we don’t. We thought a lot about cooking and meat and picky eaters. But we didn’t [...]
The List, or To Market, To Market, Part I
September 15th, 2008posted by Lisa I do my shopping on a weekly basis and it’s something of a ritual for me. It’s something that I learned from my mother, who did it mostly because she didn’t like to spend a lot of time in the grocery store. She made a long list, hauled us kids in the [...]
How a Good Family Food Culture Goes Bad. Very, Very Bad
September 15th, 2008posted by Lisa Of course, it was bound to come to an end. On the plane ride home, a red-eye, I got sick. It’s generally been a great way for us to travel, but not this year for me. Later, I would be diagnosed with severe migraines, but at the time, I didn’t know this [...]
What We Found at Home
September 9th, 2008posted by Caroline I didn’t know what to expect when we got home from France. Usually we leave the house empty for a week or so, and a friend often thoughtfully stocks our fridge with milk and bread and eggs, maybe some fresh fruit, for our return. But this time, we were gone much longer [...]
Unfamiliar Waters
August 25th, 2008posted by Caroline After a week in Paris, we headed south for a week unlike any we’d ever experienced (or likely will again). To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, my parents gathered our family on a barge that toured rivers and canals in the south of France. We were the only passengers, cared for by [...]
Yes, We have no banana blooms…
August 19th, 2008posted by Lisa …a story in pictures about desire lost and found. Week 2 at the Koloa Sunshine Market, we came for the regular things: greens, radishes, mountain spinach, tomatoes, fiddlehead ferns, mountain apples, and a back breaking assortment of mangoes, papayas, pineapples, passion fruit, apple bananas. Everything was rough and beautiful as always, and [...]
The Food (and friend!) that greeted us: a post about cheese
July 30th, 2008posted by Caroline In Paris, I was looking forward to meeting one of my long-time computer friends, Susannah Pabot, whom I met in an on-line writing class two years ago, and with whom I continue to exchange writing. The apartment we rented turned out, by great coincidence, to be only a short walk from her [...]
First Things First
July 23rd, 2008posted by Caroline While Lisa and her family were off in Hawaii, the Grant family took its first European vacation, a trip that I’ll have plenty to say about here. And once we’re done writing about our vacations, we’ll both get back to the day to day of feeding our kids at home. But before [...]
Farmer’s Market Haul #1
July 6th, 2008posted by Lisa The Sunshine Market in Koloa Town is not your average farmer’s market. For one thing, wild banana trees: and Jackfruit trees: line the parking lot, which is along a large playing field. For another, it begins at 12 noon, sharp. One of the farmers greets the customers, who wait at the end [...]