Category Archives: Eat Like Ben

Just as the world has good bones, as eloquently recounted below by Ben Sargent, so too does the human frame. Our bodies were meant to be beautiful. Not necessarily Hollywood […]

Endive is good late crop, not only for farmers, but also for kitchens. Getting ready for the first frost in the fall is always a rush. All those peppers and […]

The round-bottomed wife tries to eat local as much as possible but at this time of year she begs for big earthenware bowls of Arizona citrus to brighten the passage from mid-winter […]

In case of emergency, do not break glass! The round-bottom wife is a bit of a chipmunk. Hearty food in small bundles disappear into her purse – “for an emergency,” […]

Soma (pronounced “Shoma”, it’s a Hungarian name) wanted to smoke a Thor’s Hammer, which is a specially prepared beef shank. That’s because we were selling them at the markets all […]

A few years back, we held a Valentine’s party where we invited guests to bring red food. Our contribution was the main dish, a set of roasted organic chickens on […]

To relax in the evening, my wife watches films and TV series on her France channel – that is, when she’s not watching her German, Italian, or Spanish channels. She’s […]

We meet people on market days that don’t eat lamb because they think lambs are babies. “Baby lambs” are the young animals they are thinking of. Lambs are fully grown […]

Sometime in early February, spring fever sets in. The sun-deprived wife pesters me to go out and hunt around between retreating patches of snow to find fresh dragon-green dandelion shoots […]

Some days I just don’t plan. Then, ravenous, I have to do food, fast. Last night I was lucky. I found ground meat thawing in the fridge. Thinking it was lamb, I rushed […]

My estimable, round-bottomed wife is a bit of a kitchen witch. She keeps a half dozen large pots busy with all manner of things. Today, she had 4 pots going […]

Eat Like Ben On Saturday while I headed to Denver to run a pop-up farm stand at Nurture Wellcare Marketplace, my wife Mary was rendering beef fat into tallow for skin creams. While digging […]