farmers markets

I spoke with several mothers today at this morning’s markets. In each case, the women are farmwives managing, or having just managed, to look after ailing…

Are you familiar with a traditional food that’s just come into season: Mayhaw. It is so named for May Day, its peak season. According to mayhaw mythology,…

Tomorrow is Earth Day. While I risk sounding cliché, every day should be Earth Day. Instead, we treat the planet like trash. So, what is to be done?For…

With spring comes wild foods that inhabit our region. Last week, I met a group of visiting culinary students from France at a market.Mid-conversation, the…

Earlier this week, I had one of those enviable New Orleans moments. There I was: standing in a farmers market, debating with a group of market-goers as to…

Are you familiar with the fifth element on the culinary spectrum, umami? Scientists have debated whether the four taste groups adequately cover it: sweet,…

By the time our region’s markets are ringing their closing bells this afternoon, the New Orleans Road Food Festival will be in full swing in the French…

The other week, I experienced poetry whilst shopping for seedlings at a market. Has this ever happened to you? To begin with, I bumped into a delightful…

There’s a word I keep hearing these days — bounty.And yet, everytime I hear it, I keep thinking of farmers not football players. At our region’s farmers…

It is only right that we embrace the ebb and flow of the seasons. So out with the king cakes and in with fish on Fridays. Out with spirits and in with…