Suvir

Change is in the Air...

 

Summer is over and so is my silence.

Autumn brings us a colorful blanket of tired leaves to the ground... and for me a Tapestry, woven of fresh flavors to lift spirits and celebrate the harvest memorably.

I cannot believe it has been 23 years since I moved to New York City! Bound for The School of Visual Arts to study graphic design and art history, I came as an impressionable and enthusiastic twenty year old. Less believable perhaps, is the fact that now I have spent more time here in New York than in my birthplace New Delhi. Today I continue to make home in New York -both in the city and at our upstate farm-and live my life still as smitten and energized by New York City as when I first arrived... still dreaming, living, hoping, and working like life is beautiful and the possibilities endless.

El Naranjo mobile - Iliana De La Vega's Mexican Cuisine. Served with Honesty, Authenticity, Integrity, Style and Passion

The flavors Iliana De La Vega shares at her "humble" food truck in Austin, TX, are far from HUMBLE. There is NOTHING Humble or modest about what Iliana does. I say that in a good way. Her food has a personality that SHINES. A taste that SINGS Clearly, with HIGH Notes, deep LOW gut-pleasing tastes and pleasurable middle, side and any and all notes, flavors and sensations that come together bringing forth a culinary discovery, that speaks of a kitchen alchemy that needs to be savored, shared, celebrated and perpetuated. The only thing Humble about the experience Iliana shared with me last night, was perhaps the concept of savoring Haute cuisine around a food truck.

Welcome Spoken Here!

Sheldon Farmstand is a place where we go for buying wonderful farm-fresh vegetables and fruits and also comestibles from around the world that we would have to live without were it not for Pat Sheldon and her wonderful stocked farm-stand in Salem.  Pat and Albert Sheldon are also warm and generous people. A couple that has done much too much already and are continuing to do what they can to make the edible landscape of our community richer, fresher and more diverse.