On My Plate: Bell peppers
“Whenever I have a batch of these delicious red and green roasted peppers ready at hand, I feel secure, as though my larder were somehow complete.”
Food
On My Plate: Romano (Italian) beans
“Romano beans are jam-packed with sweetness . . . incomparable to the taste of any other green bean.”
On My Plate: Tomatoes
It seems that everyone I know has been growing their own tomatoes at home.
On My Plate: Corn on the cob
“Less than 1 percent of that corn is destined to be consumed directly by humans in the form of fresh corn on the cob.”
On My Plate: Cantaloupe
I didn’t learn why the town – as well as the melon – was named for two common Italian words, “canta,” which translates to singing, and “lupo,” which translates to wolf, that have nothing to do with agriculture.
On My Plate: Eggplant
Eggplant was first domesticated in Asia around 4,000 years ago in either South Asia or East Asia (sources disagree). Eggplant cultivation moved westward from India to Persia, Mediterranean lands, across Europe and to the Americas (possibly brought by Thomas Jefferson).
In defense of some processed foods
Unless you are knee-deep in an Alaskan stream eating a raw salmon while a grizzly judges your technique, you are, in fact, engaging in some level of processing. And that is a-okay.