Low-Tech Food Preservation, from Leda Meredith

Leda Meredith has kindly offered this excellent post for the readers of Israeli Kitchen. It’s about food preservation without fancy equipment – just in time for late summer’s abundance of fresh produce. For those who would love to keep those ripe, colorful seasonal treats for later in the year, this is a wonderful introduction and [...]

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Leda on American TV

Leda Meredith writes an engaging and sensible blog on eating locally produced food. Her message is: eat locally and reduce your carbon footprint. You might think she lives on a farm in Wisconsin or Michigan, but she maintains an (almost) exclusively local diet in New York City. She’s chosen to eat foods within a 250-mile [...]

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Chive Flower Vinegar

Leda Meredith’s book, Botany, Ballet, and Dinner From Scratch, has some wonderful recipes. One was vinegar flavored with garlic chive flowers. Now I have a handful of chive flowers in my windowsill pot. While I usually just let them go to seed, because I like discovering new little seedlings in unexpected places come next spring, [...]

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