Tue, May 6 2008

Cooking Out of the Box

Posted by Sarah Breckenridge

Before I moved to Connecticut two years ago, I volunteered as a community food educator at a CSA on Manhattan's Lower East Side. My main job was to keep people involved and interested in their CSAs, by giving them ideas for unfamiliar vegetables, showing them new ways to cook the familiar ones, and helping them use up the massive amounts of cooking greens that are an inevitable fact of CSA life. In this blog I'll be doing a little of the same: recipes, tips on how to make the most of your farm share, and make the most of those bumper crops of vegetables. But I'm just one CSA member in one corner of the country; are you a CSA member? Let me know what you're getting in your share, and what you like to do with it.

 
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Sarah Breckenridge, Fine Cooking's managing web editor, blogs about cooking and living from a farm box-share program. Sarah is a member of the Sport Hill Farm CSA, based in Easton, CT.

Susie Middleton, former editor of Fine Cooking, is now living the freelance life on Martha’s Vineyard, where she’s working on a cookbook and delving into every corner of the island’s network of small family farmers and food producers.

Fine Cooking Contributing Editor Maryellen Driscoll and her husband raise pastured chickens and beef, as well as organic vegetables at Free Bird Farm in upstate New York. When she’s not working at farmers’ markets or helping to manage the farm (or their two children), Maryellen is often in the kitchen testing cookware for FC’s equipment department.

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