by Jennifer Muck-Dietrich | Apr 10, 2020 | Winter
Winter can seem to be a dark, desolate and frigid wasteland. Whether you believe it is because Persephone ate pomegranate seeds, or the angle of the sun, winter tucks the Northeast into a coat of frozen white. But wait, driving past farmland mid-February you may...
by Jennifer Muck-Dietrich | Apr 4, 2020 | Spring
Localvore: Pea “I eat my peas with honey. I’ve done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, but it sticks them to my knife.” —Anonymous Pisum sativum (both sweet peas with inedible pods, and snow peas—flat pods with small peas inside) is one of...
by Jennifer Muck-Dietrich | Aug 10, 2019 | Fall
“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.” Thomas Love Peacock Grapes are a berry of a deciduous woody vine of the flowering plant Vitis. The name is old English and comes from the tool used to harvest them—“grap hook.”...
by Jennifer Muck-Dietrich | Jun 10, 2019 | Summer
Wuttahimneash (strawberry) The Naragansett Native American word for strawberry—wuttahimneash—translates to heart-seed berry. The scientific name is Fragaria ananassa, which refers to its sweet fragrance. The strawberry we know and love today is a cultivated...
by Jennifer Muck-Dietrich | Aug 10, 2018 | Summer
Wolf Peaches Native to the Americas, tomatoes have been traced back to the Aztecs, around 700 AD. It was not until the 1500s that the tomato reached Europe. The pomi d’oro, or golden apples, are believed to have arrived in Europe via Spanish conquistador Hernán...
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