CT Food

Food Fight

Jan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:46:06 +0000

Greenwich is now ground zero in grocery delivery wars. Peapod, welcome FreshDirect. FreshDirect announced Tuesday it is making its first foray into Connecticut with delivery in four Greenwich areas: Greenwich proper, Cos Cob, Old Greenwich and Riverside.

Makes a certain amount of sense to hit the pricey neighborhoods first. FreshDirect has been at the grocery delivery game [...]

At the Starting Gate

Jan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:13:31 +0000

The problem with growing season is that it takes its own sweet time. I’m ready. Ooh am I ready. I’m sick of apples, carrots, turnips, even potatoes and all that heavy winter stuff that you can sauce up only so many ways before it gets really old.

My garden is hitting that tipping point where I’m ready [...]

Spring is Sprung – Where’s the Food?

Jan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:00:25 +0000

I want to pretty much congratulate myself on calling it. The New Haven farmers’ market run by CitySeed was packed on Saturday. As crowded as it ever gets. I could have told you that – the weather and all.

Surprise – not much food. It’s always a bit of a disconnect when the weather and the growing [...]

Romancing the Stone

Jan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:19:43 +0000

Modern leftovers -- and of course, a pizza stone.

I love pizza. I am a pizza purist. I eat thin crust, margherita pizza, preferably with fresh basil. Nothing fancy, nothing weird, nothing fundamentally fattening. I’m talking fresh mozzarella, imported parmigiano reggiano, real tomatoes. I don’t even like pepperoni. And even if I did, I wouldn’t eat [...]

Now That’s An Egg

Jan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:49:03 +0000

For emu eggs and general thoughts on life – check out the world according to Woozie Wikfors in the Hartford Courant.

And check out a few extra photos:

Egg compared to the size of a large mixing bowl.

Egg unmixed. Check out the color and amount of yolk.

Mushroom, onion, herb and emu egg frittata right out [...]

Little Bites

Jan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:17:19 +0000

Honestly I don’t know what’s really happened with the New York Green Cart plan and the idea to get produce carts into under-served neighborhoods. But it certainly was refreshing to see this up in Carnegie Hill anyway.

Of course it was right next to one of those junk food doughnuts and giant sweet roll carts, and a [...]

It Sure Looks Like Caviar

Jan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:33:03 +0000

This Washington Post story on food fraud, on one hand doesn’t surprise me, cynic that I am. On the other hand it makes me so sad that we live in a climate where people – remember there’s people behind this stuff – have no compunction about doing it.

Whatever happened to honesty in anything?

Somehow food fraud feels [...]

Calling all Calories

Jan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:03:39 +0000

Lost in the weeds (and there are a lot of them) of the health care bill, whoops – law, is a provision that requires most fast food restaurants to uniformly post calorie counts.

And that means posting them so someone can actually read them and use them. No teeny, tiny print on the soggy part of the [...]

There’s Food, and then There’s Food

Jan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:15:44 +0000

With two food stories in the last week that couldn’t be more different, I am reminded of the reality of what food is: absolutely essential to survival, but at the same time so intensely personal as to defy anything that remotely smacks of trend.

Personally, I subscribe to the local is best belief – with major exceptions [...]

Get Ready, Get Set, CSA’s

Jan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:59:39 +0000

Put down that snow shovel. Head to your computer, your phone, whatever. Want to finally get yourself into a CSA? Run, don’t walk.

All the info is here at the [...]