Spring 2014

THE POKATIMUS CURE

Want to give some elementary pork-curing a try? The Hainers were kind enough to share their master treatment behind bacon, pancetta, and guanciale. As for acquiring the raw materials, the Hainers say, “Talk to your local butcher...

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“MUSH”—THE TWO-POT-METHOD

BASIC SAMP, GRITS, POLENTA, HASTY PUDDING, SUPPAWN, MAMALIGA, MUSH, CORNMEAL PORRIDGE, MIELIEPAP . . . The two-pot-method—which was advocated by wise cooks as long as two centuries ago—may seem like a pain to set up, but you...

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COPICUT FARMS

edible Notablesby Julia Powers The past decade has been an exciting time for local food lovers, with an increasing array of foods coming to market. Yet, surprisingly, finding local chicken—that staple of the weeknight dinner...

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INDIE FERM

by Charlotte Malakoff. Deep in the recesses of a Plymouth cul-de-sac, strange and wonderful things are afoot. Paul Nixon, a newly-commercial microbrewer—make that nanobrewer—is taking advantage of his LACK of scale to ferment...

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True Grist

by Paula Marcoux. Although we don’t remember it, we New Englanders used to eat hominy grits with at least as much enthusiasm and dedication as Southerners, only we termed our staple food samp, hasty-pudding, suppawn, mush*....

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Edible Notables

INDIE FERM by Charlotte Malakoff Deep in the recesses of a Plymouth cul-de-sac, strange and wonderful things are afoot. Paul Nixon, a newly-commercial microbrewer—make that nanobrewer—is taking advantage of his LACK of scale to...

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Wild Watercress

by Katherine Rossmoore The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, the “Father of Western Medicine,” who incidentally, proclaimed, “Let food be thy medicine,” is said to have insisted that his first hospital be built by a stream so...

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