Winter 2021
Cranberries
A tangy taste at the holiday table » More ...
Cranberries
Winter 2021
Cranberry recipes
Cranberries complement more than turkey. But this time of year, it’s easy to forget that fact.
In this recipe from Linda Burner Augustine (’83 Home Econ., Honors), cranberry sauce tops roasted pork loin infused with flavorful fennel, rosemary, and orange. The dish originally appeared on her A Year at the Table blog in December 2012.
Of course, you could always make the sauce for your Thanksgiving turkey, too.
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Fennel Rosemary Orange Roasted Pork Loin with Cranberry Sauce
From Linda Burner Augustine
Fresh rosemary, fennel seeds, and orange zest form a savory herb rub for this pork loin roast, and slivers of garlic randomly poked into the … » More …
Winter 2003
Low prices bog down cranberry growers
In the not-so-old days, circa the mid-1990s, a small farmer along Washington’s southern coastline could rake enough cranberries—and money—from just 10 acres of bogs to send the kids to college and maybe have enough cash left to spend Christmas in Hawaii.
Since the late 1990s, however, some cranberry farmers have been bogged down in another shade of red: debt.
“Now,” says Kim Patten, Washington State University Extension’s cranberry specialist based on the Long Beach Peninsula, “both husband and wife better be working outside jobs and having the kids go to college on their own—and never have a day off.”
An expanding supply of cranberries outran … » More …