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On Jammin’

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It’s that time of year again; the beginning of the time of bounty. There are earlier crops — rhubarb, asparagus, lettuces, radishes, green onions — but none are as sweet, seem to kick off the season like Strawberries. I’m partial of course, having grown up picking them straight from the fields behind my Grandparent’s old [...]

On Guilty, Exotic Pleasures

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For most locavores it’s coffee. For me, it’s fruit. And chocolate, but that’s another post for another day. And rum, but again; we’re getting off track. Fruit. Sweet, glorious, exotic fruit. Mangoes and papayas and star fruit and ugly fruit and kiwis and pineapples, oh my! I am an equal opportunity lover, I’ve never met [...]