Slate fronts a story that affects a small percentage of the general population, but a rather larger percentage of its affluent, high-minded readership: What to do with all those frickin’ vegetables from your CSA.
Big quantities of sometimes exotic or less-than-delicious produce come part and parcel with the CSA lifestyle; writer Catherine Price calls Mark Bittman to ask about coping strategies, talks to Greens founder Deborah Madison, and eventually considers the expedient strategy of simply covering everything in béchamel sauce.
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I stopped my CSA deliveries when I realized that I only thought I wanted to eat a box full of surprise vegetables every week. The guilt from letting my Swiss chard rot too many weeks in a row got to me.