Indigo House

food, history, rural life, and how we connect our cultural past and future

Alt Sidebar
Search
  • HOME
  • Indigo House History Dinners 2026
  • Classes
  • Cooking Mary Randolph
  • Bookstore
  • Support Indigo House
  • Cart
  • HOME
  • Indigo House History Dinners 2026
  • Classes
  • Cooking Mary Randolph
  • Bookstore
  • Support Indigo House
  • Cart

menu

  • HOME
  • Indigo House History Dinners 2026
  • Classes
  • Cooking Mary Randolph
  • Bookstore
  • Support Indigo House
  • Cart
Uncategorized

My Fab Dijon (sounds like the title of a 50’s pop song!)

read more
baking bread, Classes, cooking

Baking class on a chilly Sunday

read more
African American Celebrations, cooking, food history, historic menus, history dinners

Black History Month Dinner – 3 Centuries of Black Southern Cooks

read more
  • More Vertical Gardens

    October 10, 2010
  • Charlottesville’s Landmark Hotel – Perfect location for a Vertical Garden

    I’ve seen lots of images of roof gardens topping contemporary buildings but there is also a movement to create vertical gardens in European cities.  The picture of what I suggest for the Landmark Hotel is so completely clear, amazing and…

    October 10, 2010
  • Last Zinnias – First Mums

    October 4, 2010
  • Munch, Dig, Laugh: 2nd Wednesday’s with Leni

    The final gathering of my 2nd Wednesday monthly open house will be in October on the 13th and I have decided to give it a theme – see the title above. : )  All summer I have been delighted to…

    September 20, 2010
  • Check With Your Doctor: the Hypocrisy of Our Current Health Care Policy

    “Be sure to check with your doctor”; oh, you don’t have a doctor?  Then die.  Quietly – please.  (One of our nervier congressmen actually uttered something very similar on the floor of the House of Representatives this spring during the…

    September 16, 2010
  • Please Can We Create a Sensible Recycling Method for Supermarket Vegetable Waste?

    Because of our perverse American insistence on spotless, wrinkle free vegetables supermarket vegetable departments throw out garbage cans full of good produce everyday.  Yesterday morning I went shopping at the Barracks Road Kroger in Charlottesville.  To get to the jicima…

    September 11, 2010
 Older Posts
Newer Posts 

Leni’s Indigo House

Dr. Leni Sorensen Phd

I cook, I teach, I garden, I feed animals. I write, I research, I lecture, I demonstrate. My passion is emphatically about food; food in early America, food in contemporary America, food among the urban poor, food from small sustainable farms, food cooked by novices, food cooked by chefs.

Say Hi   / About Me

Subscribe to the Indigo House newsletter

Books

recent posts

  • Black History Month Dinner – 3 Centuries of Black Southern Cooks
  • CLASSES: Planning ahead for Home Provisioning
  • Join me for History Dinners at Indigo House in 2026
  • My 2026 Home Provisioning Classes are scheduled

catagories

Menu

  • HOME
  • Indigo House History Dinners 2026
  • Classes
  • Cooking Mary Randolph
  • Bookstore
  • Support Indigo House
  • Cart
© 2026 Indigo House Foundation . All rights reserved | Bard Child Theme by WP Royal.
  • HOME
  • Indigo House History Dinners 2026
  • Classes
  • Cooking Mary Randolph
  • Bookstore
  • Support Indigo House
  • Cart
Back to top