by Lise Funderburg | May 27, 2009 | Food, Word Up
Left Philly at 5:15 yesterday morning to make it to Southern Pines, NC, in time for a 4 pm reading at the Country Book Shop. This is my week for touring NC with the paperback of Pig Candy, and I’m concentrated in the Triangle Area of Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill...
by Lise Funderburg | May 17, 2009 | Food
Pretty much every year, I’ve made my niece Phoebe’s birthday cake. Usually, there’s a lot of pre-baking deliberation — of Talmudic scholar proportions — about themes, flavors, decorative elements, etc. For many years, the cakes had to be...
by Lise Funderburg | Apr 21, 2009 | Food, THE NEXT 4 YEARS, THRIFT, Word Up
When Pig Candy came out last May, of course John roasted a pig for me…and 150 of our closest 6th Borough buds. To further celebrate the book’s release, our poet/chef friend Sebastian (author of To the Bone) made collards, my mom’s neighbor Jim made...
by Lise Funderburg | Apr 15, 2009 | Food, Lay of the land
Artisanal cidermakers Terry and Judith Maloney are just starting to bottle their latest batches of hard cider, and we were lucky enough to get this early sample pack. So far we’ve only broken into the Kingston Black, a wild-yeast cider that John (resident...
by Lise Funderburg | Apr 3, 2009 | Food
It’s a love-hate moment when I walk into High Point, my corner cafe, and see these in the bakery case. As my will continues to dissolve, I’m thinking about making them at home with this Epicurious recipe I found. Don’t know that I need the almonds,...
by Lise Funderburg | Mar 24, 2009 | Food
Against all better judgment, Farmer Margaret (my sister), Farmer John (my husband), and I doubled the size of our community garden plot for this year. On a beautiful hill overlooking the Schuylkill Valley and hosted by Philadelphia’s great SCEE nature center, we...
