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A recent trip to Abingdon, Virginia yielded a rare food find: POPCORN CORNMEAL.
The assistant miller at the historic White’s Mill just outside town told me the story. During the Civil War, troops from both armies often took local food stores, leaving civilians to fend for themselves. And according to Abingdon oral history, one such incident [...]
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Contrary to most recipes, fried green tomatoes don’t require a lot of work. You don’t have to fiddle with an egg batter or deep frying. You can do a healthier, speedier version in the oven.
Ingredients: 3 to 6 unripe tomatoes, depending on the size of the fruits and your appetite
Peanut or corn oil
Cooking spray
Salt and [...]
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Red is good. Yellow is even better. But by far my favorite tomatoes are green, as in not fully ripe.
In fact, farmers at my local market are often surprised when I negotiate with them early in the season.
“I’ll pay you red tomato prices if you’ll pick some for me when they’re green,” I say.
Tomatoes [...]
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By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
October 25, 2006
Kabocha, cushaw and carnival — there’s more to winter squash than the run-of-the-mill pumpkin.
Although Blacksburg Farmers Market organizers are calling Saturday’s winter squash celebration “Pumpkinfest,” all kinds of exotic fruits will be on sale there from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Buy lots because one of the virtues that [...]
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By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
June 15, 2008
BLACKSBURG — Goldenseal. Jewelweed. Motherwort. Dandelion.
The names of healing plants call across continents and through the millenniums, up and down the spine of the Appalachian mountains, echoing even today along the paths of a terraced hillside off Jennelle Road in Blacksburg where herbalist Lauren Cooper helps keep the [...]
biscuitpower is mixed, cut and baked by Tonia Moxley, an award-winning food writer and professional journalist born and fed in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. During the day, I cover local government for The Roanoke Times. When town council meetings get very boring, I cruise recipe sites on my laptop. Send me e-mail.
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Contrary to most recipes, fried green tomatoes don’t require a lot of work. You don’t have to fiddle with an egg batter or deep frying. You can do a healthier, speedier version in the oven.
Ingredients: 3 to 6 unripe tomatoes, depending on the size of the fruits and your appetite
Peanut or corn oil
Cooking spray
Salt and [...]
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Red is good. Yellow is even better. But by far my favorite tomatoes are green, as in not fully ripe.
In fact, farmers at my local market are often surprised when I negotiate with them early in the season.
“I’ll pay you red tomato prices if you’ll pick some for me when they’re green,” I say.
Tomatoes [...]
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By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
October 25, 2006
Kabocha, cushaw and carnival — there’s more to winter squash than the run-of-the-mill pumpkin.
Although Blacksburg Farmers Market organizers are calling Saturday’s winter squash celebration “Pumpkinfest,” all kinds of exotic fruits will be on sale there from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Buy lots because one of the virtues that [...]
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By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
June 15, 2008
BLACKSBURG — Goldenseal. Jewelweed. Motherwort. Dandelion.
The names of healing plants call across continents and through the millenniums, up and down the spine of the Appalachian mountains, echoing even today along the paths of a terraced hillside off Jennelle Road in Blacksburg where herbalist Lauren Cooper helps keep the [...]
biscuitpower is mixed, cut and baked by Tonia Moxley, an award-winning food writer and professional journalist born and fed in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. During the day, I cover local government for The Roanoke Times. When town council meetings get very boring, I cruise recipe sites on my laptop. Send me e-mail.biscuitpower.com is powered by WordPress
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