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Back Issues of Farmers Market
Outlook
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| March-April 1997 (20 pgs.) | Farmer Profile: Confessions of an avocado pusher; the 10 most frequently asked questions about avocados. In the Market: A farmers successful campaign on behalf of wild bees in San Luis Obispo County; different types of honey; storage apples; tomatoes for foggy climates; a new name for blood oranges; good smells sell food. Market News: Farmers warily eye infiltration of crafts; inspectors are all ears for illegal use of the word "organic"; split opinions aired at hearing on tougher farmers market regulations. Interview: Everett Dietrick, a pioneer in the field of biological control of pests. Chef's Choice: Donia Bijan, of Palo Alto's L'Amie Donia, talks about her customers' growing familiarity with fava beans; Peter Roelant, of Fair Oaks restaurant in Bel Air, describes how Los Angeles got hip to vegetables. Recipes: Fava beans as fast food; doodling with avocados; the right way to make herbal tea. Recipe From the Past: A 19th Century San Francisco chefs publishes the self-proclaimed best book ever written about vegetables. |
| Jan.-Feb. 1997 (20 pgs.) | In the Market: The search for seedless clementine tangerines; selling oysters and a philosophy about food safety; farming 'wild' mushrooms; cherimoya harvest has a mind of its own; the pepino is a Peruvian eggplant relative that tastes like cantaloupe. Market News: farmers defend unpasteurized juice; San Francisco market covets space in Ferry Building; one Orange County market gets the boot while others are born; state agriculture department proposes tough new rules on farmers selling for others. Farmer Profile: Farmers extend the market season with an array of on-farm processed items. Interview: USDA official Lon Hatamiya discusses the state of the nation's farmers markets. Chef's Choice: Jody Denton of San Francisco's Restaurant LuLu; Patrick Waterbury of Montecito's Stonehouse Restaurant. Recipes: Making the most of Root crops; Recipe From the Past: H.J. Clayton preached the virtues of buying directly from farmers in his 1883 cookbook. |
| Nov.-Dec. 1996 (24 pgs.) | In the markets: How agricultural commissioners keep tabs on unnamed Southeast Asian crops; winning new converts to dates; how to accelerate persimmon ripening; the hazards of Asian pears; jujubes have fans but crop hasn't taken off. Market News: Some farmers face expulsion from markets in wake of state inspector's crackdown on direct marketing violations in Los Angeles; Farmers markets are at forefront of 'community food security' movement; Farmer association wary of Ventura street fair; Fort Bragg market copes with grumpy neighboring merchant. Farmer Profile: small scale mushroom growers fill niche with exotic varieties. Interview: Michael Ableman, world-traveling author and Santa Barbara market farmer, describes lessons learned from peasant farmers.Recipes: The end of the frontier was good for vegetables; misnamed cabbage; oranges and greens; pumpkins and winter squash.Chef's Choice: Charlie Deal of Oswald's in Santa Cruz; Raphael Lunetta of JiRaffe in Santa Monica. |
| Sept.-Oct. 1996 (20 pages) | In the Markets: Getting over an inferiority complex about green apples; hot peppers nip at heels of bells; controversial pommelo maturity standard; beneficial bugs; purslane is a weed on the way up; a history in beans (No Cal); weathered avocados (So Cal). Market News: County agricultural commissioners delay start of organic "spot inspection" program; a headcount of organic farmers in California farmers markets; farmer committee ousts merchants from management of market in Santa Cruz (Northern California edition only); farmers market fails to revive Moorpark business district (So Cal only). Interview: John Brucato, 92, recalls fight to overcome resistance from grocers in launching first farmers market in San Francisco during World War II. Farmer Profile: Farming in L.A.'s heartland presents problems but also opportunities (So Cal); Practitioners of sustainable agriculture warm up to hybrid seeds (No Cal). Recipes: The French chef who fell in love with chiles; a history of tomatoes in Italy; New York chefs compete to use farmers market tomatoes; eggplant and memories of markets in Morocco.Chef's Choice: John Downey of Santa Barbara and Kitty Morse of Vista (So Cal); Annie Somerville of Greens restaurant and Patrick Farjas of The Plumed Horse in Saratoga (No Cal). |
| July-Aug. 1996 (20 pgs) | In the Markets: Fragile peaches find a home in farmers markets (No Cal); Russian tomatoes (So Cal); the diversity of melons; the superiority of produce grown without irrigation; cactus paddles. Market News: How wholesale produce has taken over Kern County farmers markets; official market inspections are rare in Bay Area (Northern California edition only) ; farmer fights off opposition from existing markets to start market of his own in Claremont (So Cal only). Farmer Profile: Too little time, too many tomatoes to try (No Cal); Farmers markets spur renaissance in stone fruit (So Cal).Interview: Alice Waters discusses her connections with farmers and her intent to go fully organic.Recipes: The tastes of summer in Sicily; using overripe stone fruit; basil beyond pesto; Peruvian-style potato salad. |
| May 1996 (16 pages) | In the Markets:
Perpetual strawberry harvest; why organic berries cost so
much; tricking artichokes; over-the-hill salad mix; eggs
of a different feather. Market News:
Santa Barbara market spent dearly in legal fees to defend
right to prevent farmers from selling produce they didn't
grow; an item for markets in the farm bill. Farmer
Profile: Home on two free-range chicken farms. Interview:
Author, classics professor and erstwhile farmer Victor
Hanson, believes the end is near for family farms, a fate
foretold in ancient Greece.Recipes:
Artichokes; greens; asparagus. |
| April 1996 (12 pages) | In the Market: New
twists in salad mix; snow peas offer more than just pods;
loquats mean summer's near; a banana farm's comeback. Farmer
Profile: North County San Diego is a haven for
rare subtropical fruit. Market News: The
florists' war on markets with flowers; market manager's
list their top five headaches; Santa Barbara lawsuit
settlement in sight. Interview: Jerry
Brown on why you should know who grew your food. Recipe:
Strawberry mustard; avocado icecream; pea shoot salad. |
| March 1996 (12 pages) | Farmer Profile: In Ventura County, farmers are dying breed as best farmland on earth turns to city. Market News: Health officials are leery of sampling in markets. In the Markets: A citrus family reunion unites long-separated cousins, from pomelos to blood oranges; fans of the cherimoyas call it best fruit on earth; root crops; untrimmed celery. Interview: Popular Food TV chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger offer a rosy outlook on the future of food in Los Angeles. Recipes: Candied pomelo peel; deep-fried parsnips; daikon pickles. |
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