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  • Deborah Geering

    Contributing Writer

    Before joining the Atlanta magazine team in summer 2010, Deborah Geering contributed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s food section for a decade as a writer, recipe tester/developer, and photo stylist. She has written about food, travel, and lifestyles for several regional and national magazines as well. When she is not cooking, writing, or scoping out farmers markets, she can often be found at a wedding, performing with the After Five String Quartet. She has lived in Decatur since 1994.

This week, try the chicken your grandma ate

Pastured Poultry Week helps conscientious diners stretch their culinary wings

If you’ve never tasted pastured chicken (and most Americans under the age of 60 have not), this is a good week to change things up a little. In Georgia and New York, it's Pastured Poultry Week. Read More

10 ways to adore fennel

Aromatic veggie adapts to a wide range of ingredients and preparations

Florence fennel—the lightly licorice-flavored plant whose stems form an edible bulb at their base—usually makes a very brief appearance this time of year in our part of the world. That’s because the seeds are sown after the last frost, but the plant must be harvested before it bolts in hot weather—and in Georgia, that hot weather often comes before the fennel bulb has gotten much heft. But thanks to a surprisingly long spring, we’re seeing some really beautiful fennel right now. Read More

Atlanta loves CSAs

How to reap the bounty of community supported agriculture

Community Supported 
Agriculture (CSA) is the gawky term for a feel-good undertaking: Members purchase a subscription “share” in a farm, and then at weekly pickup locations they receive boxes—or bags, or baskets—of just-harvested produce and sometimes other staples, including eggs, cheese, or meat. Read More

At least this compromise comes with peaches

You can have Georgia-grown, or you can have Certified Organic. But almost never both.

Five years ago, you would have had trouble finding Georgia’s most iconic fruit at a local farmers market. Peaches, like Vidalia onions, are usually grown on large commercial farms and distributed nationally through a system that gives little preference to local retail outlets. Read More

Spring hasn't sprung until you've had a sugar snap pea

Get them from Annie Okra's

If you want to know what springtime tastes like, bite into a sugar snap pea just pulled from the vine. The crunch of the pod, the pop of tiny seeds, and the sweet, green-grass flavor sing of winter’s departure. Read More

Eat your fill of salads with these easy dressings

Local lettuce is on its way out, so enjoy the last of it right now

Atlanta’s farmers markets may be just getting going, but the spring vegetable season is winding down. With the hot weather we’ve had the past couple of days, you can expect those lovely lettuce heads you've seen at market to disappear quickly. Read More

New Decatur market's success depends on the locals

The food town's farmers market has new operators. Now it needs more shoppers.

If there were ever a community that ought to have a big, bustling farmers market, it is Decatur. After all, this is a town filled with granola-crunching college professors, health-happy researchers from nearby Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, artists and authors, aging hippies and younger hipsters. Read More

Don't just buy it—cook it

You went to your farmers market and bought stuff. Now what?

Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and the standard-bearer of the local food movement, has been promoting his new book lately, "Cooked." The basic premise, he told Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report" this week, is this: "The most important thing about your diet is not a nutrient, but an activity: cooking." Read More

Farmers markets open in droves

Locavores, rejoice! Markets are opening for the season nearly every day this week

This is a big week for local food lovers, with several farmers markets opening for the season—and a few other events sprinkled in as well. Here’s a quick run-down: Read More
 

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