Valley Bounty: Apples
Apples have a real prominence in our vernacular; people talk about how far they fall from the tree, how they are not like oranges, how[...]
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Valley Bounty: Heirloom Tomatoes
We did it everyone, we made it to tomato season. Every new crest in the tide of seasonal foods has its own particular excitement, but[...]
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Valley Bounty: Watermelon
Watermelons are a pretty handy summertime social shortcut—you can show up at a potluck with a watermelon, having done absolutely nothing besides pick it up[...]
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Valley Bounty: Chilies
The varying spiciness between different varieties of chili peppers is a factor of the amount of capsaicin present in the pepper. Contrary to what I[...]
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Valley Bounty: Corn
It would be challenging to overstate the prominence of corn in modern America. It’s in our cars (as ethanol), in our meat (as livestock feed),[...]
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Valley Bounty: Eggplant
The “aubergine”, as it’s called in the UK, has its roots in Asia, where it has been cultivated since prehistory. The American name “eggplant” is[...]
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Valley Bounty: Zucchini
Like all squash, zucchini has its ancestral roots in the Americas, likely beginning in Central America and southern Mexico and slowly spreading north and south.[...]
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Valley Bounty: Peaches
Do I dare to eat a peach? With last summer’s stone fruit crop loss, it’s been a while since we’ve had to give a literal[...]
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Valley Bounty: Blueberries
In Wild Fruits, Thoreau calls blueberries, “that most Olympian of fruits.” It would certainly be fair to say Thoreau is sometimes hyperbolic, especially when it[...]
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Valley Bounty: Raspberries
In the presidential election of 1840, William Henry Harrison’s Whig party supposedly accused Democrat Martin van Buren of, among other things, “wallowing lasciviously in raspberries,”[...]
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Valley Bounty: Hamburgers
From the totemic Big Mac, to the upscale creations of chic gastropubs, to the suburban chef’s masterpiece on the backyard grill, no single food really[...]
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Valley Bounty: Garlic Scapes
There’s something really tactilely satisfying about clutching a big tangled mess of garlic scapes, like I did over the weekend when I picked up my[...]
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