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Seasonal Produce

My appreciation for farm-to-table food began with a salt shaker and a tomato. I can remember the day clearly – my grandfather putting on his old cowboy hat, picking up that Tupperware shaker, and taking my five-year-old hand. As we walked over the grassy yard towards the tilled acres that served as a shared field between my grandmother and her sister, we talked about planting, growing, cooking and how important it was to pick your produce at just the right time. I can still feel the damp earth that squished between my shoeless toes and see the white shaker swinging …

We Don’t Eat The Way Our Grandparents Did

Did you know that once upon a time tomatoes were really sweet, dates were large and super juicy and that many other vegetables have changed over time? Nope, me either!! Science has been playing with our food for a very long time. In the photo below you’ll see that some of these tomatoes have green, unripened looking tops. People see the green and believe it’s not ripe, it’s not as tasty as it should be right there. Those green “shoulders” actually have a lot to do with flavor even if they aren’t the prettiest thing in the world. Sometime before …