Food - Julianne Glatz | Thursday, June 18,2009

Growing food, healing land

The good life on a three-family farm near Rochester

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, June 10,2009

For some fine Austrian wine, say “groo-vy”

When you think of Austria, what comes to mind? Beautiful mountains and picturesque valleys? Strauss waltzes? Wienerschnitzel? Mozart? Pastries? (what we call “Danish” are know

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, June 3,2009

The coffeehouse in a Goodwill Store

Visit Edgar’s for a tasty suprise

By Julianne Glatz

I didn’t know it existed until I saw the sign on the Goodwill store at Chatham Road and Wabash Avenue. Driving away from the garden center behind Hobby Lobby after buying more flowe

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, May 27,2009

White meat vs. dark

White meat chicken predominates. But should it?

By Julianne Glatz

“I’ll bet a dollar we get something this time besides [fried chicken] ribs and neck,” said Leon. “How do you suppose breast would taste?” [Later ….] &

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, May 20,2009

Memories of Trader Vic’s

By Julianne Glatz

When I was a child, it seemed impossibly exotic. When I was an adolescent, it seemed impossibly tacky: Trader Vic’s in St. Louis. I never ate there, though. For my family, din

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, May 13,2009

Give peas a chance

Respecting the rest of the pea

By Julianne Glatz

I’ve always loved peas. Those frozen peas available in grocery stores aren’t terrible. But they can’t begin to compare with new baby peas, tiny marbles of sweetness that a

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, May 6,2009

Golden living dreams of vision

Memories of the King Harvest Food Co-op

By Julianne Glatz

Springfield didn’t exactly seem like a happenin’ place to be in the 1970s, at least to me. I’d moved away, first to the University of Illinois in Champaign, then to Chicago with my

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, April 29,2009

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

By Julianne Glatz

It’s kind of disillusioning. First it was finding out that St. Patrick’s Day isn’t a big deal in Ireland. For a variety of reasons, its most raucous, over-the-top celebra

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, April 22,2009

Saucy rice from northern Italy

By Julianne Glatz

Mention starch in Italian food, and most people’s thoughts will turn towards pizza, and pasta. But in northern Italy, rice is as much a staple as pasta; pizza’s an import.

Food - Julianne Glatz | Wednesday, April 15,2009

This isn’t your mother’s home ec

By Julianne Glatz

I wish I could go back to high school. I never thought those words would pass my lips. Even more bizarre — I want to take home ec classes. I avoided home ec like the plague i