"Anybody who says they don't have a sweet tooth is a total liar," says Doron Petersan, defending champ of Cupcake Wars and the head of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats. A DC institution since 1999, Sticky Fingers is the bakery of your childhood fantasies,...

Bryant Terry, food justice activist, eco-chef and host of the web show Urban Organic, wants you to come to the table. With his new book The Inspired Vegan, he lures you there with tortillas with Swiss chard, currants and spicy guacamole, savory grits with sauteed broad...

Before seasonality became a term embraced by foodies, it was how we lived, how we ate. Transportation was limited, refrigeration, other than what the climate and creativity offered, didn't exist. Winter offered no Chilean grapes, no pale, tasteless tomatoes. We ate what was grown nearby and in season. Period. As

Thanks to reader interest in Meatless Monday's farmer profiles, today launches Who Grows Our Food. This occasional Meatless Monday series takes a close look at some of the people, so often unsung, who give us the food on our plates.

Winner of 2010's Organic Leadership Award, Bob...

Admit it, you've been thinking about it. Especially with the holiday excess leaving you feeling as puffed as a fugo. Maybe you want to go vegan to reduce your carbon footprint. Or because you need to reduce your cholesterol. You do it out of a moral choice or because you've...

Kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve is great -- hell, kissing anytime is great -- but dishing up hopping john on New Year's Day is when the new year really begins for me. Hopping john is a new year's day tradition in the south, but its ingredients -- rice,...

Just in time for Christmas, a story to share while snuggling around the fire (or space heater). Once upon a time, a beloved, wealthy young man walked away from his family, away from his riches, away from glittering worldly ways in search of truth and integrity.

This is not...

Every family should have its own designated party giver. When VegKitchen diva Nava Atlas was growing up, that meant her Aunt Blanche. "She was the family hostess, she set the style," recalls the author of many meatless cookbooks including the new Vegan Holiday Kitchen. "It was never...

When I write the words season to taste in a recipe, I'm not doing it for my own pleasure. I'm doing it for yours. I care about your pleasure because one of the most radical take-back-the-planet-and-your life things you can do is prepare your own meatless meals. But nobody will,...

Some 30 miles west of the heart of Miami lies paradise -- Paradise Farms, that is, a five-acre organic oasis that earns its name, growing produce including heirloom tomatoes that burst like berries in the mouth and are almost as sweet. They taste of the soil, they taste...

It is the Monday after Thanksgiving and you may be at the point where you can't look a holiday leftover in the eye. But before you pitch those potatoes, stop and consider they'll be joining an estimated 34 billion tons of annual American food waste. Meanwhile, according to

When Hurricane Irene put Kingsbury Farm under water this summer, Suzanne Slomin and her husband Aaron Locker had to start over with their farm, their business, their lives. They have every right to feel miserable. And yet what Slomin feels, she says, is "grateful to be part...

All November, Meatless Monday focuses on things good and things meatless, the things that make our lives worthwhile and worth saying, "thanks." Today, a big thanks to organic farmers.

During this summer's drought, Brenton Johnson's well ran dry. Then two weeks...

Thanksgiving -- great concept. Too great, really to be limited to one day, especially a day when we get sidetracked by football, parades and for those who eat turkey, slip into tryptophan comas. So for all of November, Meatless Monday will focus on things good and things meatless -- things...

It's Halloween, so for something suitably scary, Mary Shelley's 1818 classic Frankenstein gets a modern genetically modified makeover.

Dr. Victor Frankenstein was not a bad guy. In fact he was super-bright; a scientist devoted to discovering the secret of life, given to saying things like, "I will pioneer a...

Happy Food Day! Enjoy. Eat mindfully, eat meatlessly, and for a little encouragement in that department, here's an interview with Big Vegan author Robin Asbell.

In the beginning, there was her mom's homemade curry. And Robin Asbell said it was good. Really good. Growing up, "I...

Come party with Michael Pollan, Ellie Krieger, Alice Waters, Morgan Spurlock and me next Monday, October 24, the first-ever Food Day. Sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and backed...

I'm a believer in soup, but Love Soup author Anna Thomas is its high priestess. Her book offers 160 different meatless recipes organized according to seasons, so you taste the benefit of what's fresh -- lush, squashy or beany things for fall and winter, like her Fasolia Gigante...

"What did they live on?" said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

A week after the fact and I am still in Expo East afterglow. Its actual name is...

Have an apple. Have two. Because this week, we get not one, but two holiday opportunities to make the world a better place. Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, starts at sundown on Wednesday and World Vegetarian Day, on Saturday, kicks off Vegetarian Awareness Month all October long.