Early in the morning, Shirlee Wolf leaves her home in Flying Hills and drives up Route 10 to Weaver’s Orchard. Sometimes, as she picks fruit there, she’ll catch a gorgeous sunrise over the rolling hills. It’s so quiet, she notes of…
This morning as I thought about last night’s dinner, I got curious. “When did peaches start to be used in savory dishes and not just in sweet baked goods?” I wondered. “Is this a passing food trend? Or a tradition?”…
“How is this SO good?” My husband and I sat across from each other at our kitchen table, enjoying the last few bites of fish tacos with peach salsa and remoulade. Was it the peaches? The chili powder? The mayonnaise?…
At orchards, markets and farm stands all around Pennsylvania every August, produce is so abundant and flavorful that the Pennsylvania Vegetable Marketing and Research Program has named this month “Pennsylvania Produce Month.” Why does August bring such variety? This time…
I have recently traveled from Pennsylvania to south Florida. South of Maryland, I started to notice that the restaurants we stopped in had only one kind of tea: sweet tea. It’s the classic drink in the American south, a refreshing…
I hadn’t heard of donut peaches until my husband worked for Weaver’s Orchard in 2011. The flat peaches struck me as such a fun novelty–so perfect for kids to hold and snack on–that I figured they were brand new to…
Anna Brown was off to an orchard when she answered my call on Monday, July 3, 2017. When we rescheduled our call and started talking later that day, I began to get the impression that Anna is off to an…
When Jeremiah and Katelyn Kozlowski of Green Kamikozees headed to the 2011 Chile Pepper Food Festival in their native Bowers, PA with 700 jars of spicy, pickled green tomatoes, all they knew was that they had done a lot of…
Have you ever had this experience? You’re at a restaurant and you order something that strikes you as weird but intriguing. Next thing you know, you’re eating a magical combo, and for months afterward, you just want to eat it…
Canada. Vermont. New York. If someone says “maple syrup,” these are the places that come to mind, right? Surely not Pennsylvania? After talking with Linda Neal, Sugar House Manager for Patterson Farms in Sabinsville, PA—roughly ten miles from the New…