Fennel, also known as anise, is one of my favorite vegetables. It also happens to grow wild around here. Summer’s the time to collect wild fennel pollen as well as the plant’s delicious green seeds.
We are at the edge of summer in Sacramento, time to revel in everything springtime has to offer – morels, ramps, asparagus, favas and artichokes – before our city becomes the sun’s anvil.
Some men have cars as toys, others electronics. My toys are pasta-makling gadgets, and the Italian chitarra is one of my favorite – it lets you play your pasta like an instrument.
A week after my cat died, I sought solace in my garden. With the sun on my neck and dirt under my nails, I found life never stops in my little green world – or anywhere else.
I’ve always loved eating mushrooms, ever since I ate my mother’s beef stroganoff as a kid: The texture of those button mushrooms was so interesting to my young self — clearly a sign I’d someday be an adventurous eater, as most kids hate mushrooms. Since then I’ve picked mushrooms aimlessly through most of my life. That [...]
