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Food / Dining

Conversations Simmer at Restaurants’ Large Communal Tables

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Mary Altman and John Pinson, though each traveling alone on business, savored some conversation with their barbecue last week as they sat together at one of 4 Rivers Smokehouse’s large picnic tables in Winter Park, Fla. The two discovered they both live in Jacksonville, Fla., so they chatted about their lives there. “When you’re by yourself, it’s nice to meet somebody and, coincidentally, to meet somebody from your own hometown,” …

U.S. Grocers Allege Potato Growers Pumped Up Spud Prices

Friday, June 14, 2013

Boise, Idaho — A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers’ pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America’s spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow. Associated Wholesale Grocers’ lawsuit against United Potato Growers of America and two dozen other …

All About Buttermilk: The Agrarian Dream, and Recipes, Too

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

All cookbooks sell fantasy. Julia Child sold the fantasy that we could all become accomplished French cooks, but she grounded it in rigorous preparation and exacting instructions, which, if you followed them to the letter, gave you a very good chance of approximating the Sunday lunch of a provincial French lady. And because …