Homemade

A couple of weeks ago th'usband sent me a link to a little vocabulary quiz site that promises to earmark 10 grains of rice for U.N. foo...

I'm making onion soup. That's an excellent thing to do when you feel that there is nothing to eat at home, and it's the closest ...

As I've mentioned before , September is this year's official Eat Local Challenge month. The organizers of this event, which is now ...

I went apple picking with my friend S. on Sunday. I thought they'd give us a ladder, but instead we each got a long stick with a plunger...

Dear Huisvrouw, I've been reading your blog for a while now. I love the mix you have going on here--crafty stuff like writing and knitti...

green beans shelling peas cabbage scallions Swiss chard cucumbers, lots of cucumbers A few related comments: 1. I love beans. 2. No more let...

I've lost count how many weeks it's been, but we are now officially, as a newly favorite blogger of mine commented , in "a new ...

Within the last several years that I've been living back in the U.S. as an ex-expat, I've discovered the simple pleasure of calling ...

In the last meal that food journalist Michael Pollan prepares in Omnivore's Dilemma--the meal assembled of hunted and foraged ingredient...

Call me crazy, but I think we've got something like a groundswell going here. Check out the results of this Consumer Reports poll, rele...

Not long ago, my friend H. challenged me to write some how-to's for would-be ethical eaters. She had been reading Barbara Kingsolver...

Read this . These are the kinds of lives that simultaneously inspire my thinking about food and creativity and make anything that I've i...

A recent post about organic and/or local produce drew this comment about another certification option: ...Certified Naturally Grown (CNG),...

Here's a picture of this week's harvest, avec chat. I figured that if I let her momentarily indulge her taste for green leafies, she...

I take a hobbyist's approach to many of my greatest passions--something I ought to discuss with a skilled therapist, perhaps--but lately...

For those of you not into brewing, knitting, or Dutch novels about Mexico , I bring you a new feature: what's fresh now. That's righ...

Wow. I really, really need to market myself better. Just got word from my friend J about Sweet Deliverance , a new business piggybacking on ...

I have to say, I'm really excited (because I love it when the world spins the way I want it to) about the increasing degree to which our...