Try emmer wheat in this Alexandrian Bread Recipe. There was a good deal of rejoicing among small-scale growers when the Baker Creek catalog began to carry emmer wheat. Those of us who have been growing this ancient wheat experimentally have always understood how complicated it has been to get ...
One of my ongoing projects for the Roughwood Seed Collection has been the restoration of heirloom varieties that have come down to us not exactly in their purest genetic forms. Sometimes the corn produces cobs of different lengths (or tassels of different colors); sometimes the tomatoes yield a ...
The Bible is brimming with specific references to a broad range of plants and foods, although sometimes their true meanings can be obscure or downright confusing until we are able to check them against the original Hebrew or Greek. A case in point is the carob tree (Ceretonia siliqua), an ...
Schales (pronounced SHAH-less) is a delightfully practical old-time dish well-known in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, but not much beyond that. In simplest terms it’s a vegetable pie without crust. Thus it offers vegetarians a new alternative in creative cooking, and for ...
I am not sure which is more colorful: the man who originally saved this heirloom squash, or the manner in which I found it. Let us zoom back in time to 1974 to a virtually frozen-in-time Victorian country store in a little crossroads place called Niantic, Pennsylvania. The owner of the property ...
Many people grow Martynias or Devils Claws (Proboscidea louisianica) for the fun of it–either as a curiosity or just for its exotic ornamental appearance. Granted, in spite of their lush tropical foliage, the mature plants can sometimes look a bit rangy; no one has taken to breeding ...
Most books devoted to heirloom peppers will tell you that ‘Scotch Bonnet’ peppers are from Jamaica and that they represent a recent addition to the American spice cabinet. In fact, they have been here for a long time, and the earliest ‘Bonnet’ peppers ...
It probably goes without saying that potato aficionados are a breed unto themselves, especially when it comes to seeking out the most exotic varieties of spuds. Then again, there are potatoes, and there are potatoes. Anyone who grows heirloom potatoes knows firsthand that the flavor of these ...
In 1886, a small tomato war erupted between two of the most aggressive seed companies in the United States: W. Atlee Burpee of Philadelphia and Peter Henderson of New York. The “war,” if we want to call it that, consisted of two vigorous and competing advertising campaigns ...
While interviewing cooks in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, I am always amazed by the little nuggets of kitchen savvy that come to light when the subject of heirloom recipes comes up. Years ago farmhouse cooks had to be creative because anything wasted represented time and money out the window. ...
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