Editor’s Note

Hope is in the Air

edible Communities 2011 James Beard Foundation Publication of the Year

This is my favorite time of year. The air is brisk in the morning, warm midday and cool at night. Varied hues of red, burnt orange, yellow and gold paint the landscape. People speak of the fast- approaching holidays and the loss of evening light with the time change. It is October, soon to be November and in a blink, December.

Previously, I have described this season as the time of short days and long shadows. This is a time of pumpkins, a time of comfort food and a time to reflect on the days of behind us. This year began in lockdown due to the pandemic. We moved into spring with hope – hope for new beginnings, vaccinations and herd immunity and travel. Then came hot, dry days and the Delta variant, but we hung onto the hope, as a necessity, and we started to travel – safely.

The world opened-up again slowly, at first, then step-by-step a somewhat normal existence appeared before us. Masked and (hopefully) all of us fully vaccinated, we were ready to see the world, ready to meet, once again, with close friends and family and for many of us ready to hit the road.

This issue is dedicated to hope, the hope of finding our way safely out of the darkness we have experienced, the hope of once again traveling through this beautiful state and to lands far, far away.

This issue also brings distant lands to us – through histories of foods, spices, and manners in which we can live life fully.

I hope you enjoy this issue. I hope you try the recipes we’ve included, and I hope you each can travel soon to the destinations highlighted in the following pages.

I also hope you remember to eat good food, laugh a lot, and choose to be happy.

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