Marie-Christine

In honor of mother's day, The Farmer General came out with this month's theme: Motherlover.  My piece is an interview and dedication to my own mom, Marie-Christine.

Marie-Christine published by The Farmer General on the 13th May 2012


In case you missed it, last month's theme was Black Sheep, for which I wrote about Cervo, the lopsided goat I met in Italy.

Cervo published by The Farmer General on the 19th of April 2012

The Vote

Do you like cookies? Do you read? Do you enjoy clicking on red buttons? If you've said yes to any of these questions, go to the link below and vote for my Farmer General article to win Best Piece of Culinary Writing!  I've been nominated, and you can sign in at the bottom of their page to make it count before April 26th!

http://www.saveur.com/food-blog-awards/vote.jsp?ID=1000013348

Goat

As local as local food gets...

Short piece written for The Farmer General published on the 16th of March 2012.

The Meal: Much More than Eating

Published with The Farmer General 13th of February 2012

The magazine got a makeover you might like to admire.

Pleasure Does Not Discriminate

"In a season of excess, sometimes it’s good to just admit to what you really REALLY want."  
~ Editor-In-Chief

Poem for The Farmer General published 3rd December 2011

Live Culture: The Slow Food Cheese Festival 2011

Last month I returned to Italy.  Instead of hauling hay, milking does, and feeding kids, my September weekend was filled with festival; cheeses from around the world and tourists - also international - all crammed into the small town of Bra.  Here's my report:

Article for The Farmer General published 26th October 2011

Not Sand, But Self-Sufficiency: Italian Mountains, Italian Cheese

Article for The Farmer General published 11th August 2011

Chèvre At First Sight

Article for The Farmer General published 13th May 2011

Someone asked me, "Why cheese?"  This is why...

On the Subject of Cookies

Article for The Farmer General published 30th March 2011

If there is one food that could trump cheese, it would be cookies.

Fear No Terroir: Making the Case for Geo-specific Cheese

Article for The Farmer General published 16th March 2011

How the heck do I explore and write on the theme of Geography when it comes to cheese?  The subject is too vast!  Location is everything!  The landscape, the weather, the animals, the plants, the people: these are all figuratively smooshed into cheese.  For every bioregion on this Earth, a separate essay must be written to describe its history and relationship with cheese...

Food on the interwebs

Hooray for work!  Fellow food-lover, Smithie, and sister of best friend's husband, Sarah Kanabay, has landed a gig with Saveur Magazine.  Here, she and Chris Onstad contribute their Portland culinary pleasures.  These two are also the founders of The Farmer General, a new food-inspired online journal that I wrote for (see earlier post: Behold the Power of Cheese Affinage) and that will go live... soon.  So goes the life of a burgeoning food writer, Sarah writes.  Congratulations on Saveur, I say!

Behold the Power of Cheese Affinage

Article for The Farmer General published 28th February 2011

Sarah Kanabay, The Farmer General Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, contacted me several months ago about contributing to the online food literary magazine.  Evidently, I enthusiastically agreed and began brainstorming my first theme: Tradition.  What to write about...?  Ah, of course: Behold the Power of Cheese Affinage.  What else?