by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Environment
While at home last week in Maine, I went strawberry picking with Sarah, my little sister, as I try to do every summer. Working my way down a row of strawberries at Maxwell’s Farm in Cape Elizabeth, I was reminded of the renewed debate over whether local food...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
The first line of the first book written by Françoise Rabelais — writer, doctor, teller of bawdy jokes — addresses those most “Most Noble and Illustrious Drinkers,” before taking up Plato’s The Banquet, Socrates and Silenus, the...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 26, 2010 | Environment, Featured, Fishing
The way I tell the story, the day my father removed my last diaper he placed a fly rod in my hands. Since then, I’ve cast a line over nearly any open body of water I can find. He nurtured an avid fly fisherman, sure, but also an avid environmentalist. And so I...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 26, 2010 | Environment
I came to love cooking as I came to love food. My appetite was undiscerning; everything was open for exploration. I knew only that I wanted to eat. I also came to love cooking at what would turn out to be the end of a five-year stint as a vegetarian. Few things smell...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
With Senator Barack Obama set to announce his VP nomination by Friday, the speculative field of possible names has been whittled – if only by the press – to a select three: Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, and Governor Tim...
