Eating Locally

With few supermarkets, city dwellers seeking fresh good grow their own.

It's easy to dismiss the growing trend of urban agriculture as a phenomenon for the affluent, given the lofty undertones of most writing on fresh and local food. However, as I tried to point out this New York...

Growing up in Brooklyn, our refrigerator was home to the imitation Idaho potato, sticks of Parkay, and the lone liter of Schweppes ginger ale. One summer, my mother and I subsisted on bags of potatoes cooked every which way one could fix a potato. We cut them into wedges and...

While the Democratic debate has turned into an all-out popularity contest, and the most-discussed issues continue to be the economy, oil and war, there are two topics that none of the three candidates have really honed in on. They all spend a lot of time dancing around the perimeters, yet...

So, I ended up spending an unexpected 24 hours in Nashville, Tennessee last week. I'd only anticipated spending a few hours in Music City that day. The original plan was to meet a friend at the airport, grab a rental car and drive the 340 miles to Memphis...

The last time I was in London, I picked up a packet of extra fine green beans from a Tesco supermarket. The label, which I kept and which has been sitting on my desk ever since, intrigued me. The amount of information packed on to this small sticker reminds me...