Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place. ― Matt Simpson Mr Simpson may be right – it takes a bit of a quick wit, a sure hand and a practice to make a perfect pancake – much like the perfect life.  A dissertation on [...]

My Sunday was sideswiped by the cover article of last weeks NYT magazine, “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” by Michael Moss . A fascinating expose of how large food brands seduce our senses with fast, easy to prepare (or pack, as in the case of Lunchables ) engineered “food”. Building a product that [...]

What do you get when you bring the best artisan food producers in the USA into one room? The Good Food Awards, which marked it’s third year on January 18, 2013.  Held at the San Francisco Ferry Building, the event is sponsored by The Seedling Project and was hosted by Alice Waters. And I am so very proud to [...]

Here is a our story about the elusive Wild Beach Plum. Prunus Maritima is a member of the rose family and often confused with rose hips by the uninitiated. Beach plums grow along the seashores of the Atlantic coast  from Eastern Canada to Virginia. They range in size from a small Nicoise olive to a [...]

We couldn’t be happier to share some good news with you. Josephine’s Feast!’s Hand Foraged Wild Beach Plum Preserves has been named as a finalist in the 2013 Good Food Awards in the Preserves Catagory.  The awards will be announced in San Francisco on January 18, 2013 at the historic Market Place in the San Francisco Ferry [...]

  Thanksgiving is that easy holiday – it feels as comfortable as a warm fire on a cool fall evening.  A bit more laid back than most – it has always been my husband Sean’s favorite day.  A casual feast with family and friends – what could be better? After the upheaval of Sandy – [...]

I love markets and when I am traveling, I often find myself being drawn to gourmet shops, food markets or farm stands. London is remarkable, Paris is legendary, Venice is on the canal and Northern California has no equal. But as Dorothy stated while she clicked her ruby heels, ‘There is no place like home.” [...]

  A Light Wind Swept over the Corn, and nature laughed in the sunshine. -Anne Bronte Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.  Rather poetically, as I guess the only way a Bronte could be, she writes about corn fields in England.  And this is the [...]

In the market, iceberg lettuce conjures up two insanely different images. The first is the iceberg of my childhood memory.  A bowling ball of watery leafy greens that were just about mummy wrapped in cellophane and saran wrap on the A&P shelf and served on a plate with a dollop of plain sour cream by my Aunt Josie.  She was not [...]

My daughter Josephine often sells an organic lemonade on Sunday’s at the Southampton Farmers Market. And in the City, her friends Noah and Micayla have a stand on Mercer Street in Soho where they cornered the market on one of the first 99 degree days of summer. Who can resist? Both refreshing and satisfying – [...]