In dieting, I learned early on, exercises in extremes do not yield good results. Starve yourself of chocolate, and you can be sure the first thing you'll do when no one is looking is dive into a kiddie pool of chocolate, roll around in it and then lick your own...

Sunday night, using leftover bread from Friday night's dinner, some Hudson Valley milk and cream, and two big Jersey zucchini, I baked up a savory zucchini bread pudding. It was cheap to make, and super tasty. I carried it with me over to a community garden in the East Village...

Just because something is dying, does that mean it's worth saving? I was raised by antique book dealers, chronic flea marketers. It's in my bones to hold onto the past. In this way I was an old woman before I turned 20, mourning the loss of old traditions and razed...

This past week was nuts--a sustainable food activist's dream come true.

Tuesday, a few hours after I put up my grumpy post about Obama not mentioning food in his health care talks, he proved me wrong by getting up in front of the AMA and saying that junk...

Back in October, Obama read The Omnivore's Dilemma, and he was feeling the Michael Pollan rapture. He even talked about it in an interview with Joe Klein, saying "our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it's creating...

This is my coming out party. To my close friends, family, and colleagues, this will come as no surprise, but, um, I drink soda. Specifically, Diet Coke. Sometimes I manage to quit, but then I always come a'crawlin' back.

In Mexico, regular Coke is made with cane sugar and it...

Without getting into the gory details, industrially produced chickens lead a (how do I say this nicely?) less than charmed life. This point was driven home for me reading Nicolette Hahn Niman's new book Righteous Porkchop, which spends a good chunk of the book discussing the roots of all...

I grew up in the golden era of the microwave (an era you might call the '80s but which I myself call "middle school'). People were momentarily so excited about ye olde heating box, they were buying cookbooks about how you could cook everything in the microwave--before they discovered...

It is my pleasure to come to you today with some foundational advice on how to go slow in your kitchen. We can get into the nitty gritty in posts to come, but these here are my four basics for getting started.

1. Stop buying random kitchen...