by Valley Locavore | Oct 27, 2008 | Valley Locavore
It's subtle but if you look really hard at the 16 billion pixels that represent a recent restoration of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," (1498) a plate of grilled eels and an orange slice (the parsley garnish of the 1494). According to MHC Art Professor...
by Valley Locavore | Oct 27, 2008 | Valley Locavore
Good luck with this because our friend Mr. Peach is all but gone from the fields but if you can get your hands on some, here is a good website that shows how to can all fruits for winter consumption. Freezing is a lot easier because there is no sterilization, jars,...
by Valley Locavore | Oct 29, 2008 | Valley Locavore
It's subtle but if you look really hard at the 16 billion pixels that represent a recent restoration of da Vinci's Last Supper, you can barely make out a plate of grilled eels and an orange slice. The image is so vague that it could also be a plate of donuts....
by Valley Locavore | Oct 31, 2008 | Valley Locavore
The bread element of the locavore breakfast is a complicated thing. First it has to be made by hand and second it has to be made of local corn meal, ground by a man on a bike in Hadley. And C, it can't go in the toaster because there is no toaster that works with...
by Martin Blatt | Oct 2, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Molasses, sugar, palm leaves, and cotton. Tea, coffee, rum. All of these were staples of eighteenth and nineteenth-century New England life. None of them were produced in New England, and obtaining them involved some practices we would now find morally objectionable,...