I was just visiting new york, and I went to the union square greenmarket, and now I understand why you couldn’t find Thai herbs there. It has quite a different character from the farmers markets here in minnesota, where most of the vendors are hmong farmers and have all sorts of interesting herbs for sale.

And unrelated to food, but still interesting–a 400-level English class at my school (University of Hawaii-Manoa) is using your book, “Daughters of Earth,” in a class on gender and sexuality in sci fi, alongside ‘Frankenstein,’ Freud and Le Guin.

(I’m really excited for the UFB, by the way!)

my favourite tomato dish is a toss-up between off-the-vine-tomatoes with cheese and tomatoe pepper or stewed tomatoes, which is only slightly more complicated.

xo (lol) elmo

I just can’t get as excited about corn on account of you can get great corn at home. But not tomatoes. US of A heirloom tomatoes are the best I’ve ever had. Yum!

re tomatoes: my great-grandmother used to serve tomatoes grown in her garden. she was blissfully unacquainted with modern agricultural chemicals, but extraordinarily well-acquainted with the folk cooking traditions of the deep south, where she lived all of her 90+ years. She would serve these tomatoes, fresh from the garden – they had never in their lives been cooled – with “dinner” (i.e. lunch). The entire preparation for them was: slice fairly thick, serve with salt. Sweet red heaven on a plate.

your post made me hungry