There was a time - it was warmer out, and I lived in the city - when the idea of eating strictly local seemed, if not practical , exactly, t...
There was a time - it was warmer out, and I lived in the city - when the idea of eating strictly local seemed, if not practical , exactly, t...
Ron Rosenbaum has written a contrarian defense of fat-the-ingredient . ( Via Mark Bittman , who so could have torn this apart, but must have...
Today I finally made it to the nearby Cherry Grove Farm , which is the only sort of farm in the area of much interest in this produce-barre...
Mark Bittman wants ( link !) an indoor food market to go where the Fulton Fish Market once was. Not that this would much benefit me at this ...
Wait, were you going to eat that? Stop! Don't you know that every single food ever is incredibly problematic - to the environment, to th...
Chris Schonberger, Nick Schonberger, and Foster Kamer wrote this endlessly compelling if somewhat NY-centric list of "20 Things Every...
So California won't be labeling its GMOs . I've been slightly following this, and it's a funny issue. On the one hand, those aga...
-"My roots, I don’t dye. I used to dye the tips. I think they call it a balayage: it’s painted-on bleach that they put just into the en...
Recently, once again looking for cooking inspiration, I turned to the Bittman Minimalist videos. I got some ideas, but was mostly distracted...
It's now accepted wisdom that modern children's ignorance as to where their food comes from is something in desperate need of a rem...
-From Slate France, the unsurprising connections between far-right politics (in France and Germany) and the local-sustainable food movement...
-In the guise of a beauty post, here's an interesting career trajectory narrative. What privilege can do, and what's required of th...
One reads a great deal about how these days, "we" (as in, the author and those like the author, in the author's estimation) ca...
It's almost as if Mark Bittman were reading WWPD . (He did once respond to something I wrote at Culture11, so it's not entirely imp...
Not-so-deep in the archives, PG and I got to debating the food movement. And I think we got sidetracked. The question, as far as I'm co...
-There was a girl in my high school class whose stomach really did go in, or at least not poke out, even when she sat down. Perfect skin and...
Quite a weekend. Bisou is now a year and a day old, and groomed. Not matted in the least, thanks to daily brushing and combing, neither of w...
Because I'm suggestible , or because inside this years-old-Uniqlo-clad exterior lies a foodie-hipster, the other night I roasted whole f...
-Sometimes, without knowing precisely what goes on at one, I'll announce my desire to run off to a spa. It sounds pleasant, right? Maybe...
There's a new book out I'm intrigued by, even though what I know of it is that the NYT reviewer, Dwight Garner, hated it . Tyler Cow...