I totally forgot to post about this, but a while back I bought some sea beans from Far West Fungi’s little storefront at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. I’ve been fascinated by these things ever since I discovered them at Fairway in Manhattan (go Harlem!). These weird little sprigs of vegetables are crisp like […]

The other day I walked out onto my balcony and realized that I’d abandoned some fresh dates out there a few weeks prior. Fresh dates are a seasonal (late summer/early fall) treat that I first discovered in the farmers markets of Southern California. They’re sold by the branch, each holding about a dozen yellow-skinned fruit […]

A few weeks ago we ran a story in the Home section about the feijoa tree, a native of South America that also flourished in the Southland and is a favorite of some garden designers. Its fruit, known as the pineapple guava (it’s distantly related to the common guava), is strangely delicious - describing its […]