January 24,2010 at 4:08 PM

We’re all a-twitter (even on Twitter) about this week’s event! Join us right here for Secrets of an Award-Winning Organic Farmer on Tuesday the 26th at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern with Mark Pasternak and Myriam Kaplan-Pasternak of Devil’s Gulch Farm in Marin County, California. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to ask them [...]
Tags: farm to table, farmer, farmers market, locally grown, Sustainability
November 6,2009 at 1:41 PM

It looks like a cucumber with warts, and has a name to match, but since I’m being somewhat experimental in my farmers market purchases, I decided to give it a try. The farmer told me that a common way to eat it is in stir-fry, so that’s where it ended up. I cut it in [...]
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November 1,2009 at 2:29 PM

One of the things I enjoy about the farmers market is learning about different varieties of food that in the past 50 years or so have been lost to the homogenization that has taken place in our food supply. Today, one of the stands had 17 varieties of potatoes! I love it. [...]
Tags: farm to table, farmers market
September 26,2009 at 7:49 PM

I was at the Farmers Market the other day and picked up these gorgeous heirloom tomatoes. They were so beautiful I decided to spare them and keep them as souvenirs. That sentiment lasted until that evening when I decided to make salsa.
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September 26,2009 at 1:58 PM

Sarah Henkin inspired me to make peperonata. After listening to the replay of our interview with Sarah, market chef for the Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in SF, I went out and bought a wide variety of peppers, chopped them up, cooked them in olive oil with garlic and onion, and added diced tomatoes [...]
Tags: farmers market