tools & utensils
I Get to Talk About Cast Iron on the Eater Channel
The YouTube video interview I did on cast iron has just been released. What a super day I had discussing one of my favorite kitchen tools – everything cast iron! I’ve been collecting cast iron cookware since way back in…
Leni talks with Bruce & Mark
Upcoming Indigo House Events
A reminder that spaces at my Food History dinners for this summer season 2021 are filling fast! Make your reservations at www.indigohouse.us AND the first Canning class of this season will be Sunday, July 25, 2021 – make your reservations…
IN WHICH WE MAKE PIZZA IN OUR HOME BUILT WOOD BREAD OVEN
Yesterday our family had the delicious fun of making pizza in our wood oven for the first time in the yard out by the picnic table under the oak tree. The wind was chilly even though the sky was bright…
Taking care of ourselves and each other: Learning and doing in the Piedmont
To top off settling in a new place shortly after I got here I decided to go to college for an endless number of years sometimes living far from home to do the history thing I have been doing as…
Self–reliance versus Self-sufficiency: An ongoing series of meditations
None of us are self-sufficient. We all need somebody! Despite the often nostalgic retro-interpretations (our national idealization of Little House on the Prairie comes to mind!) Americans weren’t self-sufficient in the Colonial past, the Revolutionary Era nor the long 19th…
