By Claudio Magliulo Bologna is Italy’s capital city for organic agriculture. Downtown, the major Italian organic certification bodies have their headquarters. In the surrounding suburbs, crowned by...
By Ashley Rood After a day of feasting on local food–of being thankful for my favorite season at the market here in San Francisco (hello pears, persimmons and pomegranates! It’s been too...
Freshly squeezed sugarcane juice by Marcia Zoladz The street markets in the city of São Paulo offer special treats for those shopping. They unite very different types of produce stands. You can find...
Book Review: The End Of Food by Paul Roberts Review by Darel Anderson Roberts believes that our world food supply system is inefficient for a number of reasons and could easily collapse. To...
By The Peaceful Plate My grandparents must have had vivid memories of “going without” during the Great Depression. They tended to squirrel away free napkins and ketchup packets from...
By Grab Your Spoon The clocks have gone back and the nights are drawing in, it’s as dark when I get up as when I come home from work and my thoughts are turning to the approaching festive season. The...
By The Accidental Locavore As the Accidental Locavore, I’m a good person to talk about not overdoing it at this time of year, however as Anne Maxfield, overdoing it at Thanksgiving has become my new...
By Pick-A-Pepper with Photographs by Rebecca Allen These nice fall days are the perfect time to start turning apples into applesauce. For relatively cheap you can often get bushels of seconds (the...
By The Peaceful Plate It started out innocently enough. Me: What’s for lunch today? Coworker: I brought a frozen meal, but I think I might go out and get a salad. Me [silently judging her for...
I have been making a ton of tomato sauce lately. I still have salsa from last year, so it has been pretty much tomato sauce this year. But a few days ago, after making some enchiladas, I thought...