Joelle Abramowitz
By Joelle Abramowitz
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Food Looking Back — and Forward — to Schav
Photo: Joelle Abramowitz Sometimes we need to encounter something new to help us unearth a remnant from the past. “This week, I got sorrel,” I told my mother. Each week I’d recite to my mother what had come in my CSA share and what I ended up doing with my vegetables. The sorrel was notable…
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Food Loving Zucchini in the Polar Vortex
Up until only very recently, I wouldn’t have had any problem with eating zucchini in January. I believed that a tomato was a tomato, a cucumber a cucumber, and a zucchini a zucchini, regardless of where it came from or what time of year it was. But this year, I decided to try to keep…
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