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The tomatoes, corn, squash, beans and other typical harvest crops are piling up in the fields and farmers market tables, and even the plants that petered out during the heat of summer, like spinach, lettuce and radishes, are back. All in all, it’s a great time to be hungry. 

Lettuce, before and after solstice The summer solstice is in the rear view mirror. Even though the hottest days are before us, the longest days are past. If you haven’t planted your tomatoes or melons yet, you might not bother. The plants will grow like steroid abusers, but there isn’t…

I’ve been getting Chinese chives at the farmers market from a vendor named Nancy. She told me how to make a pancake, as she calls it, with egg, sesame oil and her scallion-sized chives. Chive pancakes usually have some glutenous form of starch like flour or pancake mix. But Nancy’s version, from “northern China,” has none. While technically more an omelet than pancake, when it comes to Chinese chives, I do what Nancy says.