Comments for Open View Gardens http://openviewgardens.com Exploring the World in a Vermont Kitchen & Garden Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:14:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Mid-Summer Experiments and Explorations by Barbara http://openviewgardens.com/2010/07/30/mid-summer-experiments-and-explorations/#comment-2488 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:14:08 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=282#comment-2488 It completely depends on where you live, Doris. If it is a warmish clime, go ahead and plant the seeds in the open ground. That’s what I do in Vermont.

]]> Comment on Mid-Summer Experiments and Explorations by Doris http://openviewgardens.com/2010/07/30/mid-summer-experiments-and-explorations/#comment-2487 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:54:52 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=282#comment-2487 We just bought the Zucca Da Pergola Lagenaria seeds. How do I plant them? Do I start them inside or can I plant them outside? Thanks.

]]> Comment on Lessons from the Midwest: On Love and Bratwurst and Pie by Barbara http://openviewgardens.com/2012/02/29/lessons-from-the-midwest-on-love-and-bratwurst-and-pie/#comment-1873 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:34:09 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=2224#comment-1873 Thanks, Bryan. We’re taking it day by day.

I like that…the notion of a regional mutt!

]]> Comment on Lessons from the Midwest: On Love and Bratwurst and Pie by Bryan Alexander http://openviewgardens.com/2012/02/29/lessons-from-the-midwest-on-love-and-bratwurst-and-pie/#comment-1871 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:38:47 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=2224#comment-1871 What a bold post, Barbara, to share your regional… attitudes, and how they changed.

(Personally, I feel like such a regional mutt. Born in NYC, schooled in Michigan, now up here?)

Please give our best to your husband in this difficult time. We’re thinking of you guys.

]]> Comment on Tis the Season for Pruning by Musings from my wordhole! | Save Some Green Blog http://openviewgardens.com/2012/02/22/tis-the-season-for-pruning/#comment-1857 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:40:56 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=2220#comment-1857 [...] Tis the Season for Pruning (openviewgardens.com) [...]

]]> Comment on Going to the Market: To Love or to Hate? by Barbara http://openviewgardens.com/2012/02/14/going-to-the-market-to-love-or-to-hate/#comment-1838 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:18:47 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=2200#comment-1838 Elizabeth,

I love how open and honest you are in this reflection about what it feels like to be a stranger in your adopted country. I remember feeling that way when I lived in Ireland, in France and in England–well, in England as a kid, I would fake the accent well enough to get away with it for the most part, and my school uniform also provided me with a bit of cover. But in France? Well, actually, no one wanted to know where I was from–ha!

Your experience also takes me back to the stories my students from other countries and even other regions would share of how difficult it was to feel at home here in what looks like a monoculture in Vermont (not to the extreme of Italian regionalism by any means). And the students of color rarely ever found themselves feeling that sense of belonging that you describe and seek.

The story of your growing relationship with the vegetable seller is a great one, and I look forward to hearing more about how that unfolds!

Great, great post.

]]> Comment on The Real Thing, The Rare Thing: Cookbook as Inspired Teacher by Potlucks & Culture Kitchens: My Kind of School | Open View Gardens http://openviewgardens.com/2011/10/31/the-real-thing-the-rare-thing-cookbook-as-inspired-teacher/#comment-1815 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:13:38 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=1898#comment-1815 [...] new cultural influences in their lives?  As Mourad Lahlou says in the introduction to his splendid New Moroccan (about which I’ve blogged): “And so, dish by dish, and year by year, my food evolves. I started at Kasbah with a [...]

]]> Comment on Speaking the Language of Food by Potlucks & Culture Kitchens: My Kind of School | Open View Gardens http://openviewgardens.com/2011/12/05/speaking-the-language-of-food/#comment-1814 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:13:35 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=1991#comment-1814 [...] I prepare to head to Morocco and Italy for two months, and as I listen to Elizabeth tell stories of cooking with the immigrant women in Venice, I’m thinking about exploring not just the traditional cuisines of the places I will [...]

]]> Comment on The Real Thing, The Rare Thing: Cookbook as Inspired Teacher by Potlucks & Culture Kitchens: My Kind of School | Open View Gardens http://openviewgardens.com/2011/10/31/the-real-thing-the-rare-thing-cookbook-as-inspired-teacher/#comment-1812 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:40:57 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=1898#comment-1812 [...]   As I prepare to head to Morocco and Italy for two months, and as I listen to Elizabeth tell stories of cooking with the immigrant women in Venice, I’m thinking about exploring not just the traditional cuisines of the places I will spend time in soon, but the ways in which those cuisines are changing.  Just as I am as likely to make Korean pork or Thai chicken as I am Irish or Vermont anything, what are they making now in Fez, say, that blends in some of the new cultural influences in their lives?  As Mourad Lahlou says in the introduction to his splendid New Moroccan (about which I’ve blogged): [...]

]]> Comment on Speaking the Language of Food by Potlucks & Culture Kitchens: My Kind of School | Open View Gardens http://openviewgardens.com/2011/12/05/speaking-the-language-of-food/#comment-1811 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:40:53 +0000 http://openviewgardens.com/?p=1991#comment-1811 [...] As I prepare to head to Morocco and Italy for two months, and as I listen to Elizabeth tell stories of cooking with the immigrant women in Venice, I’m thinking about exploring not just the traditional cuisines of the places I will [...]

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