Patter Matters — farmers market

Alice Waters has been making this argument for decades. Eat what grows near you. Eat what grows now. Pay attention to the season — to what is ripe, what is abundant, what the land is producing at this particular moment. The argument was radical when she started making it in the 1970s. Today it is absorbed into a certain kind of food culture — farmers markets, CSAs, restaurant menus that change with the harvest. And yet most of what most Americans eat has no relationship to season at all. What Seasonal Eating Actually Means Seasonal eating does not require a...