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      My Grandmother’s Garden (Part 6)

      My great-grandmother, Ora Goodman, and her garden, were the impetus for me to start writing this blog.  She was a major influence all through my childhood.  She lived a ‘local’ life without realizing she was doing so.  She simply lived her life.  This [...]

      Recipe: Sun-Warmed Beefsteak Tomatoes

      Sun-Warmed Beefsteak Tomatoes
      The key to this dish is that the rest of the meal must already be on the table before it is prepared.
      Ingredients
      Fresh, ripe, garden Beefsteak tomatoes, or farmers market, organic tomatoes
      Olive oil
      Fresh ground pepper & salt
      Method
      The tomatoes should be warm and fragrant from the sun, just picked if possible.  As everyone begins [...]

      *The Local Report – Berlin Currywurst

      3.0 miles, about 10 minutes from my home in Atwater Village.
      A new kind of sausage has arrived to Los Angeles: Berlin-style currywurst.  Something new, and oh-so-different to the always evolving culinary scene in Los Angeles.  Currywurst is German street food that has been around for at least sixty years.  Considered the [...]

      Out of the Box Collective

      “Eat The Love”.   The very apt slogan for the new food delivery company Out of the Box Collective.  The OBC promotional flier also includes:  “Local”.  “Sustainable”. “Home Delivered”.   All good words in my world.  Out of the Box Collective is exactly those things.  They gather food staples that are local and sustainable, put them into [...]

      CSA: Farm Fresh To You

      Community-supported agriculture, or CSA.  It has such a nice ring to it.  I just started back to one.  So far I’ve received one delivery from Farm Fresh To You.  The last time I tried a CSA it was too much food.  [Read about it here.]  But then without one I just don’t cook (and eat) [...]