PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COOKING UP HOPE
Welcome neighbor,
Thank you for being here. Let’s celebrate spring together in honor of the renewal all around us in nature.
We know your attention is called in many different directions, so this year we’ve changed things around to focus on the topic we hold dearest and which we feel has never been more important than it is right now—cooking simply with seasonal ingredients. It’s an initiative we’ve dubbed Cooking Together.
Why? To intentionally nourish ourselves and the world at the same time.
What’s different? First, we created a new website designed around seasonal cooking and how it can change everything.
Second, we reorganized how we present seasonal recipes here in the magazine.
Third, you’ll be able to see these recipes in action as we demonstrate them at select farmers’ markets around the county this year (find more details on page 12).
This season, in addition to a new approach to recipes here in the magazine, we have collected some very special articles for you to celebrate our love of the land in general and San Diego’s spring in particular. We continue highlighting local wine from the far corners of San Diego County you’re really going to want to explore. Indeed, we might borrow the concept of terroir (goût de terroir, or “taste of the soil”) and extend it beyond wine to include all the local produce grown in our region. Terroir becomes personal and a relationship if we notice how we shop for, grow, and savor our seasonal creations.
Here’s hoping the changes we’ve made invite new joys into your every day, which we can each share farther and farther afield. What better expression of spring?
Katie Stokes
Publisher and Editor in Chief
Edible San Diego
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Edible San Diego recognizes the Kumeyaay, Luiseño/Payómkawichum, Cahuilla, and Cupeño/Kuupangaxwichem people who have lived in relationship with the earth, flora, fauna, waters, and sky for thousands of years as the original stewards of this region. This publication commits to building greater awareness of and appreciation for the traditional ecological knowledge, wisdom, and experiences of San Diego County’s first peoples as an essential part of the health and vitality of our local food system.
