(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to An, Element, Italy, Salad, Surprise, United States, Your, for, of on 2007-09-26, 20:00:00

My delight in growing odd edibles has led me down some strange roads, at times wild and exotic, at other times so homely I feel almost foolish to have trod them. This year's experiment with a leafy green named sculpit (also called scuplit or sclopit) was a case of the latter.

(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to An, Beneath, Canopy, Edible on 2006-07-19, 20:00:00

The long, rustic table is laden with platters of vegetables, grilled fish, crusty bread, good wine. Mama and Papa (that's me and Eliot) smile beneficently as three generations feast on the garden's bounty, with babies crawling and toddlers toddling on the patio stones at our feet. Every now and then someone reaches up and plucks a bunch of ripe grapes from the vines on the arbor above.