Valley Bounty: Cauliflower
The name “cauliflower” has its roots in the Latin words for cabbage (caulis) and, well, flower (flos), though maybe that second part is obvious. Cauliflower[...]
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Valley Bounty: Chicken Soup
When we talk about “eating seasonally,” we often think of the purchases we make—finding locally-grown foods when they are freshest and most plentiful from local[...]
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Valley Bounty: Pears
Pears are often forced to stand just outside the spotlight shining on their fellow fall fruit and Rosaceae-family cousins, apples. I’ve written before in this[...]
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Valley Bounty: Tomatillos
Tomatillos, despite their name, are not actually a type of tomato; both are members of the Solanaceae family (often referred to as “nightshades”), but in[...]
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Valley Bounty: Apples
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a man named John Chapman, born in Leominster and raised in Longmeadow, became famous for planting hundreds[...]
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Valley Bounty: Eggplant
Eggplant appears widely in the cuisines of many cultures around the world, from its native India east into China, Korea, and Japan, and west into[...]
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Valley Bounty: Green Beans
The food we eat is fundamental in shaping our bodies and our cultures, hence the idea that “we are what we eat.” At the same[...]
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Better Western Mass: Local Meet with Corsello Butcheria
Western Mass News, August 31, 2018. Kasey Corsello of Corsello Butcheria in Easthampton joined CISA on Better Western Mass to talk about her butcher shop's dedication[...]
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Valley Bounty: Jalapeños
Jalapeños get their name from the city of Xalapa, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz, where the pepper was traditionally cultivated. One of[...]
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Valley Bounty: Watermelon
You’ll occasionally see pictures online of square watermelons grown in Japan. The melons are grown in special cubic molds and were originally intended to make[...]
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Valley Bounty: Okra
Growing up in New England and New York, I never ate okra as a child. It wasn’t something my parents grew up eating, so it[...]
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Valley Bounty: Peaches
Though it is actually native to northwest China, where evidence suggests it has been cultivated from as early as 6,000 B.C.E., the peach tree’s Latin[...]
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