Pluots are in high season at the farmers’ markets. They seem to follow their genetic opposites, apriums, by a few weeks. Marlene Gonzalez sells these treats from the Lone Oak Ranch in Reedley, CA at our hospital’s market and also...
This week’s Best of the Market bag to be delivered to employees at the Oakland Medical Center will contain radicchio. As there were no recipes on this site using this vegetable, I went to my current favorite cookbook for a...
Included in our farmers’ market “Best of the Market” bags recently were beautiful heads of organic butter lettuce from Nunes Farms. Medical center employees too busy to shop had these bags filled with goodies including the lettuces delivered to them...
Last Friday, the farmer’s market at our hospital hosted field trips from 1st graders, third graders, and then 33 juniors from an Oakland High School environmental sciences and physiology class. Being one of the most diverse cities in America, the...
I am often able to get some of the ingredients for a dish at my local farmers’ market, but not all. Beautiful cabbages, onions, and cilantro were on display. Local tomatoes are still months (?) away and any limes must...
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