Schilling was owned by McCormick! Whole spices … I’ve got a bunch of still viable that ate ancient n
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I live in a city. I so miss being able to look up into the sky and see stars, like I could growing up. I remember coming home from something recently that was way out in the county, and looking up before I got into my car. I felt so grateful- and deprived.
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We can go to a National Seashore beach any time of year and see the Milky Way the same as I remember it living in rural Ohio. No lights, no cameras, no action. The grass is always greener. When we take trips, we don’t go to beaches, we go to cities…we gobble them up.
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You might want to consider Curiospice in Cambridge, MA, and Barrel and Burlap.
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Thank you - I will explore those. I have heard of Burlap and Barrel. What do you like from these vendors? What kind of food do you cook??
We live in Somerville, 2 blocks from Boston and really close to Cambridge. I am hoping we can go to the Cape to see the stars deep in winter. Any suggestions for where to go, stay, and eat in deep winter?
Thanks for posting…sounds so beautiful and calming and grounding.
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Sounds like my idea of paradise but I’m sure it gets old after awhile.
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Reply # 2. What city do you live in? I frequently go to Columbus, OH to visit my dear mother. She is in a small post WWII neighborhood of bungalows across the river from the Ohio State Campus. I’m always surprised by the light and noise pollution when I visit her. She’s under the landing pattern for the airport and that starts at about 0600, it’s also foreign to hear police helicopters at night. There is a train track that runs several blocks behind her house and it’s just not stuff I’m used to hearing but after awhile I filter it out. And in the city there are a lot of emergency vehicles.
We hear low flying Coast Guard search and rescue helicopters occasionally where we live on the bay, but other than summer people who whoop it up with illegal fireworks it’s incredibly quiet and can be boring out here…
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oh gosh, I cook a lot of Middle Eastern, broadly speaking, lots of Spanish (Europe) as well as global Hispanic and Mexican, and mediterranean including Turkish and Georgian, try to stretch out to African sometimes, and I’d love to do more fish and seafood. We adopted a 7 year old from foster care long ago and his food trauma really curtailed my cooking geography. It’s reviving now.
I found that looking at what’s available at Curio and Burlap and Barrel, and seeing their recipes, gave me lots of ideas of what to try. Christina’s in Inman Square, Cambridge, has lots and lots of stuff for global cooking and their website now shows what they have. Sometimes I buy a spice and then look up how to use it. I have an Eatyour books membership so I can see how to use ingredients there. Also I love Ottolenghi and The Guardian (UK) recipes.
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I guess we seek out what we don’t have at home …
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Baltimore . It’s interesting that you can be 20 minutes outside the city and be in a completely rural space - not because of zoning, but because of the much older deed restrictions (covenants running with the land).
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In South San Francisco Costco and TJ are side by side. I went for gas at Costco but then was too frustrating trying to get a parking place so gave up.
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I live in Eastham. I would recommend Provincetown, as long as you’re cool with gay culture. It has the most restaurants open off-season and is a funky, artsy place. Our town pretty much closes in the winter we’re just a 2 lane highway with the Atlantic on the east and Cape Cod Bay on the west. Our neighbors, Wellfleet and Truro, are ghost towns in the winter as well. Orleans and Chatham aren’t as further out as we are but tend to be a tad more traditional and are more populated.
There’s no ferry service to Ptown in the winter - that’s the best way to get there from Boston. If you decide to plan a trip to see the stars, let me know and I’ll give you recommendations for a place to stay and places to eat and shops to visit.
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I have several good friends from Baltimore - one trained in Otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins and another was in grad school with my husband at Ohio State. I’ve only been there when I connect flying Southwest from Providence to Columbus. Funny story, the orthopedic doctor who did my rotator cuff surgery at Cape Cod Hospital was a rehab specialist for the Orioles. He trained at Johns Hopkins, too. His wife was from MA and convinced him to move here.
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It gets very old. Feast or famine. Too many people flood our towns, roads and beaches in the summer. Then in the winter, restaurants and shops close and we’re the only house on our street with lights on. Not a well-balanced place to live. Some people come out here to unwind, but it’s not too difficult to unravel.
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You haven’t missed anything. Yeah, Hopkins saves us.
Those are complicated and unfamiliar cuisines for me. I did take a cooking class from a woman who was married to a man from China and I became comfortable with ingredients from that culture and feel comfortable shopping for them. When I read Ottolenghi’s recipes my eyes just glaze over. I’m sure I would love to eat what he puts out but don’t have the bandwidth to produce it. I love the Guardian. Rachel Roddy is one of my favorite food writers.
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We’ve always wanted to try P-town, so I’ll be in touch if we get a chance to go. Thanks!
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My friend tells me to use it, doesn’t think it goes bad.
Dorat - has little cubes of grated ginger (and garlic and some other herbs) packed in trays so you can pop a cube out. I think I got my first ones at TJs years ago.
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