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 [...]

Lately I’ve been focusing on adding dishes to my home cooking resume. One thing I’d eaten plenty of in restaurants but never made in my own kitchen: crab cakes.
Off to the store I went this weekend. There I found “wild-caught” pasteurized crab meat from North Carolina. Both the semi-local provenance and the “wild-caught” label appealed [...]

When most people think of African-American contributions to cooking, they think of greens, fried fish and black-eyed peas, in short “soul food.” But a newly-discovered cookbook may begin to change that image.
Library and culinary historian Jan Longone discovered Malinda Russell’s “Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen” and discovered [...]

Word of this study came to me from Blacksburg’s Peacock-Harper Culinary History group:
“A General Mills Betty Crocker Kitchens study, “How America Cooks II: A Generational Look at Cooking/Baking Differences, 20s vs. 40s” broke down how women in their 20s and 40s view cooking. The nationwide online survey included 1,500 women in those age groups, and [...]