I first heard of salt potatoes when I was at the Oatka Festival in LeRoy, New York. There was a stand selling them. They are traditionally served with...
By guest blogger Beth Terry. For Part 1. A few weeks ago, I began my plastic-free gardening project in my tiny Oakland, CA, yard with the help of Ro...
I've been blogging for about two years now, and it's time to step up my game--with a newsletter! I really love blogging. It's the perfect creative out...
I have admired and coveted the staking skills of my friend Pat Corpora for decades. He is Sicilian, so I think his blood is made of tomato sauce. I ...
You can blame it on global warming, the rapture, or just plain bad luck. But I have a different theory, backed by science. Yet no one is reporting on this.
by guest blogger Holly Walck, Iyengar yoga practitioner and teacher in Bethlehem, PA (YogaWithHolly.com) and Istanbul, Turkey I have spent the pas...
If you are married to an Italian (like I am), are Italian yourself, or have any fantasies of being Italian, you probably want to grow garlic. Don't te...
I've written about the Avett Brothers before, so y'all know I love them (not like I want to marry them or anything -- musical love). They are unlike anything I've ever seen before. Energetic. Powerful. Fun!
I was one of those depressed, overweight, overstressed people who always had a reason why I wouldn't or couldn't run. The most pressing reason was that sneakers made my feet feel so hot that I couldn't bear to wear them. Ever.
I have just harvested my first ripe red tomato, and now I am going to celebrate by sharing my favorite tomato recipes. This first recipe is called tomaquet in Spanish, and I only recently discovered it on my trip to Barcelona.
By guest blogger Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, ABAAHP, Lac; doctor of Chinese medicine, antiaging specialist, and author of Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds o...
Part 1: Tomaquet, Catalan Tomato Bread When people interview me about my childhood growing up on the first organic farm in America, they seem to have...
Peggy Drexler is in my kitchen today talking about her Philly food roots, a favorite tool for tea in the kitchen, and where she gets her food news.
Speaking of my childhood and what I ate, this was another popular lunch item in my mother's repertoire. It was a very good day when she would take the...
By July, it's usually too hot for lettuce to be happy in the garden. Fortunately, while the tomatoes might still be struggling to ripen, all the other...
By guest blogger Carrie Balkcom, executive director for the American Grassfed Association The explosion in the demand for grassfed meat has lead to m...
So I was dawdling about on Twitter, and I see a tweet from Mark Bittman about the "shocking" (his words) survey just out from Thompson Reuters and NPR...
Claudia Dreifus is in my kitchen today, discussing her thoughts on news, and a few of her latest favorite things -- from books to scissors!
I am taking a vacation, and I'm not going to apologize for it. There's never a good time. There's always more work to be done, and things to be cleane...
