I’ve been thinking a lot about Patience Gray lately, and her book Honey From a Weed. I talked about her with Joe Yonan a bit on this week’s episode of The Splendid Table, and every time someone asks me about who I’m reading, her name keeps coming up. I think it’s because I see her writing about…
the black radish
This is a different radish (perhaps the sexiest of them all). Elizabeth at Indian Line Farm grows these every year, and they store so well through the Fall that I find myself talking about them through both the November and December holiday markets. “Sell the black radishes!” She tells me. This is no perky nipple…
roasted radishes and brocolli raab
Years ago, when Sadie’s hair was toddler-thin and Rosie was remarkable in her resemblance to a potato (I say that lovingly, of course, but anyone will tell you that it was true), I worked as a governess to three girls. I think I’ve told you about them. I don’t know what stories I have told…
at the market: radishes
Radish-es! (I’m singing here, a little off key)I can not stop singing your praises. You are, in essence, love with a root and a leaf. Round or cylindrical, sensual in your crunch and shocking bite, I will love you forever. These, in no particular order, are some of my favorite things about radishes. 1. Radishes…
wordsworth and radish butter
And giv’st to forms and images a breathAnd everlasting motion! not in vain,By day or star-light, thus from my first dawnOf childhood didst thou intertwine for meThe passions that build up our human soul;Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man; Radish Butter Combine 1 softened stick of butter with 6 finely chopped radishes,…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 