Almost Slowfood

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Please subscribe to receive Almost Slowfood via  EMAIL  or  RSS Feed . Thank you! We had a few weeks of summery weather and now the tides h...

Now that we're well into Winter and Spring is months away, you might wonder how much of what I cook is local. Percentage-wise, around 6...

In college, one of my closest friends was always talking about these aunts and uncles that weren't actually related. I was totally conf...

I've always enjoyed bean soups, baked beans and other bean dishes, but I generally used dried beans from the grocery store. This year, a...

Like everywhere else in my life, in the kitchen I've had successes and failures. And, while I generally cook tasty meals, the one I made...

This has been one of those weeks I wish I could forget or, even better, start over. Ball up the paper and launch it into the trashcan or sel...

As you probably know by now my husband and I lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn during our engagement and a couple years into our marriage. We lo...

The day after graduating college, I met my husband while out with one of my girls - one of the "my girls" I speak of so fondly in ...

Willie Mae cooked for my great-grandmother, then my grandmother and, even for a short time, my mother. She was a large woman with a high-pit...

Just a quick one here, but I've been receiving numerous questions about what to do with the chutney left over from Monday's virtual ...

For the last month, baby girl and I have been eating up strawberries like we'll never see them again. Every week, as we approach the mar...

While most people think my surname is French, (and sometimes they even assume I am heiress to the Beaujolais wine fortune - I wish!) it'...

During my childhood, Northern Virginia wasn't the food destination it's now become. Sure, there were lots of restaurants, but the DC...

It is pouring yet again, but I have to admit I am a rainy day kinda gal. I love any excuse to wear rain boots, tuck baby girl into her strol...

"What's gah-nocky?" Yes, that's what I said out loud at a restaurant in Manhattan while my three friends of Italian descen...

In two weeks my CSA starts its Tuesday deliveries and I just found out I can also special order meats, cheeses, milk, jams, breads, pickles...

Today is my daughter's 18 month birthday and we didn't get off to a good start. It was rainy and dreary outside, but baby girl was i...

I usually post recipes today, but I just returned to NYC after a weekend of travel with my mom. The pickins were slim in the country as far ...

Today, I am training it down to the place I was born and raised: Old Town, Alexandria outside of DC. Tomorrow, my mother and I will drive ou...