Quick takes on the Rochester-area food scene
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Share your holiday kitchen disasters
It happens to the best of us. Maybe you were roasting a turkey for the first time, or making grandma’s yeast rolls recipes for the 100th time, or trying to impress your vegan bride with Tofurky, or driving your blue-ribbon-winning apple pie to your in-laws. Then something in or on the way to the kitchen went horribly, unexpectedly and irreversibly wrong. The oven broke and the turkey was raw. The dog ate the rolls. The Tofurky made you sick. The pie filling spilled all over the seat while you were driving.
Tell us about your most memorable holiday cooking disaster and how you dealt with it. Did it require a call to your mother? Your plumber? Your therapist? How did others pitch in to save the day? What kind of story lives on in your family?
We are collecting these holiday tales of culinary woe for a story that will run in the Living section later this month. Send us your story, along with your name, the city, town or village you live in, and a daytime telephone number where we can call you.
Submissions can be e-mailed to kmiltner@DemocratandChronicle.com (please put “Holiday Kitchen Disasters” in subject line) or mailed to Democrat and Chronicle, Features Department, “Holiday Kitchen Disasters,” 55 Exchange Blvd., Rochester, NY 14614. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Nov. 13.
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Share your holiday cookie traditions
Do you have a holiday (Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza) cookie recipe or ritual that holds special meaning to you and your friends, family or neighbors? We’d love to hear about it for a special feature to be included with our upcoming 12 Days of Holiday Cookies series, which kicks off Dec. 1.
Send us your story and recipe, along with your name, the city, town or village you live in, and a daytime telephone number where we can call you.
Submissions can be e-mailed to kmiltner@DemocratandChronicle.com (please put “Holiday Cookie Traditions” in subject line) or mailed to Democrat and Chronicle, Features Department, “Holiday Cookie Traditions,” 55 Exchange Blvd., Rochester, NY 14614. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Nov. 13.
Local foods
Winter farmers market
This year the Brighton Farmers Market extends its local harvest season with the Brighton Winter Farmers Market, which runs 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays from Nov. 10 to Dec. 22 at the Atonement Lutheran Church, 1900 Westfall Road, Brighton. The indoor market will bring together many of the same farmers and vendors who sold at the town’s summer market. Look for kale, spinach, potatoes, garlic, onions, winter squashes, carrots, cabbages, Swiss chard, kohlrabi, pumpkins, pears, apples and other winter-hardy produce. There will also be locally grown poultry, beef and eggs, dairy, honey and baked goods.
The Long Season Farmers Market, a collaboration of the South Wedge Farmers Market and the Brighton Farmers Market which debuted last year, will not take place this year, says Brighton market manager Sue Gardner-Smith.
For more information, call (585) 241-0088 or go to www.brightonfarmersmarket.org.
Magazine offer
Free calendar
What’s a great place to keep track of events that celebrate the Finger Lakes’ edible bounty, from wine tastings, farmers markets and food tours? How about a 2010 calendar from Edible Finger Lakes, the quarterly magazine that celebrates the foods, wines, farms and food purveyors of the region? If you subscribe to the magazine before Dec. 1, you can get a free calendar (otherwise the calendar sells for $12.95). A one-year subscription is $28. Go to www.ediblefingerlakes.com or call (607) 272-2510.
Karen Miltner compiled this column from staff reports.
