first frost season Maple-glazed sunchokes and shiitakes make a cozy side dish for the cold nights of spring and fall. In this recipe sunchokes are treated like potatoes- boiled in salted water until tender and then browned in a cast iron pan along with shiitake read more
blackberry season This summer was an unbelievably good year for foraging wild blackberries. And as the harvest was winding down in New York, I went to Maine for two weeks, which luckily coincided with their peak blackberry season. Berry brambles lined gravel roads and ATV read more
dandelion season Growing up in a Pennsylvania Dutch family, holiday meals always included salad with Wos-Wit hot bacon dressing. Most often my family used iceberg lettuce, but traditionally hot bacon dressing always topped dandelion greens. My grandfather likes to tell the story of how his read more