Magazine

Fields of Gold | Celebrating the Sweet Corn Harvest

Dan Tawczynski loves to tell the story of the day his corn hitched a ride on the Concorde. It was more than 20 years ago—the early 1990s—when one of his regular customers asked to pick some corn to send to England. “No way,” Tawczynski told him. “You can’t ship corn to England from Great Barrington!” […]

Food

Rhubarb | History and Recipes

Call it a fruit or call it a vegetable, rhubarb — an early bloomer — is the basis for cozy crumbles and delectable sauces. I have no quarrel with rhubarb. I love this plant.The tightly rolled green and pink leaves pushing out of the just-thawed ground, growing into firm stalks with little attention or care from me, […]

Food

Strawberries | The First Fruit of Summer

The sweetest harbingers of early summer will soon be on display: signs for strawberry socials on church lawns and berry festivals on village greens, and pick-your-own posters near farm stands. After months of dried cranberries and shipped-from-afar citrus, we celebrate this first wave of local fruit (rhubarb being, after all, a vegetable). It has always […]

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