Cooking the Davis Farmers Market

Our cooking inspiration often emerges from a strange mixture of history and opportunity, the books we read and the comestibles we encounter at the Farmer’s Market and at the Co-op. Those books are as likely to be literature, theory, or history as they...

If Pliny the Elder is to be trusted, the status of artichokes in ancient Rome was under some dispute.  Pliny confides to his reader that he accepts class distinctions in prepared foods (including bread and wine), but that he is bewildered that there...

It's the beautiful early days of spring in Davis: when it's sunny but still cool and the blustery rainy days are belied by the glorious blue skies.  The perennials are leaping after their sleeping, the shoots are shooting up, and the fruit trees are...

The Sherdos have had a busy and, at times, difficult winter. Although we cook in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, we haven’t had that much to say about it.  Our weekly Saturday pilgrimages to the farmers' market have continued to be...