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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Sweet Winter Brussels Sprouts
December 22, 2010 in Squid Ink
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Fight Not Over: Hollywood Farmers Market Gets 90-Day Extension but No Final Deal
December 20, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaVendors at the 12-12 Hollywood market show their support. The SEE-LA/Hollywood Farmers Market vs. LA Film School battle has reached a temporary detente, but the fight that's been raging for...
[Updated, Again] Hollywood Farmers Market Update
December 18, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Satsuma Tangerines
December 17, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Controversy and Winter Squash
December 08, 2010 in Squid Ink
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Watermelon Radish
December 01, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaShinrimei radish at Weiser Family Farms, Hollywood market Just when you thought you could finally toss the Uggs (so aptly named) for good, the local weather starts making upstate New...
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Swedish Peanut Potato Debut
November 16, 2010 in Squid Ink
Caltech's 2010 Olive Harvest: Olive Oil Tastings, A Brining Recipe + Math Jokes
November 09, 2010 in Squid Ink
More Deli at Moore's Deli
November 08, 2010 in Squid Ink
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Arkansas Black Apples
November 03, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaArkansas Black apples from Scattaglia Family Farms at the Hollywood market. It's not often that a pile of apples in a cardboard box turns heads. But if you're talking...
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Uncured Olives
October 29, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaTehachapi-grown, raw Manzanillos at Walker Farms booth in Pasadena Local olive growers, or even farmers with just a few remnant olive trees here and there (they've been growing here since...
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Quince
October 21, 2010 in Squid Ink
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Reed Avocados
October 11, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaReed avocados from Rancho Santa Cecilia at the Hollywood market On a trip to Los Angeles earlier this year, before all the Red O brouhaha and even before Red O...
Shell Game: Battle of the Bivalves at the Hollywood Farmers Market
October 05, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Barhi Dates
September 30, 2010 in Squid Ink
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Raw Peanuts
September 08, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia Friesema The demand for fresh, raw peanuts in the shell used to come largely from displaced southerners from both the U.S. and Vietnam, where boiled peanuts (or dau phon) are...
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Fall Apples
September 01, 2010 in Squid Ink
Flickr/beyondramenGravenstein apples Hawk-eyed market-goers started spotting the first signs of fall this past week. And while Southern California isn't a hotbed of apple fever -- it simply doesn't get cold...
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Fruit Flies and Netting?
August 23, 2010 in Squid Ink
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Sometimes Spicy Padrons
August 18, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaPadron peppers from Weiser Family Farms Just when it actually starts to feel like a typical Los Angeles summer, the Weiser Family Farms booth rolls out the Padron pepper, a...
Cooking in Highland Park: The Book
August 12, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Purslane
August 11, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: California Grapes
August 04, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Ivory Gaya Melon
July 27, 2010 in Squid Ink
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Green Walnuts
July 21, 2010 in Squid Ink
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What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Eggplant
July 15, 2010 in Squid Ink
Felicia FriesemaBlack Beauty eggplants at Weiser Family Farms In the category of vegetables that are actually fruits (a berry to be more precise), the eggplant, originally only small, white, and egg-shaped...
