After much campaigning from my husband, I decided to consider a C.S.A. share this year. I challenged myself to create and post new recipes while designing my weekly menu around these amazing organic veggies.
When you stick your nose in a glass of wine, what do you smell? Most of the time, the aroma will be fruity, floral or spicy. But what if you smell rotten eggs, wet newspaper or a barnyard? More than likely that wine is flawed.
Spices are a perfect way to add new flavor to your favorite dishes while guarding your health -- add them to your daily health regimen to prevent and treat the chronic diseases plaguing us.
We embarked on a blind taste test of 10 ketchup brands to determine which ones had superior tomato flavor and consistency. The winners and losers will definitely surprise you.
I have always been transfigured by the prospect of visiting Paris circa 1750, and by the magic of The J. Paul Getty Museum , I was transported back to that unique Paris period on Saturday evening.
One of the most troubling aspects of the ongoing outbreak in Europe is that it involves a strain of E. coli that often flies under the radar in the United States.
If you want to help keep antibiotics working for your kids or your parents or for anyone you know who gets sick, make sure your next ham sandwich is made with meat from a farm that does not feed antibiotics to healthy animals.
Industrial agriculture, like most powerful business interests, has a very effective lobbying organization -- not only in DC, but also in state capitols around the country.
I have now been eating my own meat birds for two seasons, and I was excited to do the slow-motion magic trick of turning a live chicken into a perfect roasting bird just like you'd see at the grocery store.
Here is a look at foods that fortify and foster healthy cells to renew, repair and rejuvenate skin for lasting beauty.
Pizza is a simple thing that few people do right. Most important of all, you need to make a crust that has the right feeling in your mouth. Capizzi's crust hits the mark.
Cities such as San Francisco and Washington D.C. have made symbolic MM proclamations, but Aspen, Colorado is doing something much more exciting and comprehensive.
While consumers may not discriminate among wines in terms of their intrinsic qualities, they are apparently responding to extrinsic qualities of wines, such as price and area of origin.
I predict that within weeks raw sprouts will disappear from grocery shelves in the US and around the world, perhaps to never appear again.
Some producers fermenting corn into ethanol add human antibiotics to their fermentation tanks. Why? To control bacteria in the tanks, which can reduce their yields if they get out of control.
Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of Prune in New York City, stopped by The Interview Show at Union Hall in Brooklyn to talk about her life, restaurant and more.
Hershey needs to catch up with its competitors in instituting actual cocoa purchasing policies that reduce Hershey's connection to child labor, forced labor and trafficking. It is time to get serious.
I enjoyed making food for people in restaurants and did some rewarding catering in the past. None of that compared to the utter pleasure of distributing our unbelievably fresh, sustainably grown produce for the first week of our CSA.
Forks Over Knives makes a pretty good case for how a plant-based diet can save your life. But how does it play as a movie?
Jamaliya Cobine, 2011.06.09
The Sweet Beet, 2011.06.09
