Valley Bounty: Brussels Sprouts
In the last decade or so, it seems American food pop-culture has done a complete about-face on Brussels sprouts. It doesn’t seem like that long[...]
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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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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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