Today’s Greatitude

Do you have a go-to wintry meal that heartens you up?  Do you prefer chili to stew or chicken pot pie to a veggie lasagna?

Seasonal meals are often a carry over from the past where root vegetables were the staple to get through the long winter months.

In our modern kitchens, we hardly feel the passing of the seasons. We have the luxury of New Zealand apples, Chilean grapes and Hawaiian pineapple, all cheap and plentiful even in January.

For our ancestors, winter meals were a very different thing. They were limited to whatever they could store, hunt or harvest.

Those same food traditions survive in our modern cooking, in wintertime “comfort foods.” Foods heavy with flour, fat and salt and oh soo good!