“Did I ever tell you about the day after you were born?” I asked my youngest as we headed out to lunch. “I was so euphoric. I knew all my children.” She confirmed that I had told her. “Many times,” she said. It’s one of my life’s vivid moments: sitting in bed on a Sunday […]
The Carbon Footprint of Food
Aside from being both quick and delicious, I love that Soup of White Beans and Winter Greens has a fairly low carbon footprint, especially now that I can grow greens in my greenhouse. After transportation, food production and waste are the next biggest contributors to climate degradation. I’ve become aware of how I can mitigate […]
Soup of White Beans and Winter Greens
The Batavian endive I’m growing in the greenhouse is not the pale-leafed head shaped like a torpedo, but something more akin to leafy escarole, which would be a great substitute. So would kale, collards or chard. My recipe for a soup of White Beans and Winter Greens is adapted from Marcella Hazan’s recipe for Zuppa […]
Greenhouse Greens
The ground is frozen, and the gardens put to bed, but I’m still harvesting greens and herbs from the greenhouse. A greenhouse was never part of the plan. A wood-fired pizza oven was. But Tim came home from the clinic with a story about a patient who built a greenhouse during lockdown, a greenhouse big […]
Writing to the Light, Again.
I like to start my day in the dark. It’s quiet time, when I practice a morning meditation with my pen. There’s something safe about these pre-dawn hours, before the world wakes, a time when the phone doesn’t ring, when it’s too early to engage in the world. The dark envelops me. When I raise […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 63
- Next Page »