Food Heroes

In honor of "Black Friday," I thought we could all use a little perspective. Meet my favorite sheep. I don't know her name. But she's my favorite. I'll call her Bertha. Bertha knows how to keep it real even when there's three babies biting her udders and a strange girl taking video of her. Bertha just…

Meet Farmer Al. That is his full name. Like Madonna, or Bono. In most parts, all you have to do is say Farmer Al and people know who you are talking about. That's because... ...he grows these: Word on the street is that they are the best in the country, and all organic too. When no one…

I recently listened to the cadence of five pies consecutively – my ear against the heavy thwump of throbbing apple, the crackling of a blueberry, the bubbling of two flawless blackberry confections, and the soft gurgle of perfectly sweetened huckleberry. It was a morning of passionate pie baking interrupted only by a blackberry picking interlude.…