Trying to cut a sliver of pie slender enough to allow for a sample of two other deserts is a trick…

But we do not live by pickles alone. A solid collection of tomato sauce, or juice, which our neighbor Janis makes, plus canned peaches...

Crimped edges, lattice covered, golden pastry, and open-faced pies.

As far as I can tell right now, nothing is at the top of any food chain…

A big, well-known California strawberry grower offered the participants samples of two or three varieties of huge, perfectly-formed strawberries…

The first truly delicious coffee I ever drank was in 1973 at a Montreal crepe restaurant…

Between 1997 and 2017, there were nearly 5,000 reported cases of food poisoning in Maine and none of them attributable to local farms and producers.

You see your friends there and can indulge in sharp-elbowed competition for strawberries, pies, or eggs…

Your safest food is produced in relatively small amounts, close to home, by people you know.