As someone who can’t stop putting food in jars, I sometimes get my priorities confused. On one hand, I have a compulsion to forage. I don’t know a lot of other middle-aged, middle-class women in Marin County who scale the fences of foreclosed properties or run off into the bushes to “rescue” fruit that would otherwise go wasted. (In truth, I don’t know even one, though I would like to.) My favorite kind of canning relies on what the world outside the supermarket so generously provides. [...]
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Yesterday, I happened to be at BevMo, ho-humming around the aisles while Stewart chose a bottle of wine for dinner with my parents. Then I saw it: a rotating display of a hundred different liquor minis. I went crazy and bought about twenty. I love to add liquor flavors to my jams and marmalades. This seemed like a nifty way to experiment with adding flavor to preserves without making a huge investment. [...] I spent the last two days at BlogHer Food, a conference attended by more than 300 food bloggers in San Francisco. I don’t know what’s more strange — that I have become a food blogger or that I chose to cloister myself with a crowd of people in a large, downtown hotel on a beautiful weekend. Both of those things surprise me. [...]  |
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