If you are a meat eater, then you may have wrestled with this question (or at least wondered about the wording) before. What's the deal with grass-fed beef? It's a subject we've written about it brief...
Let this post serve as warning for one of the more disturbing phenomena we've heard in awhile: MPC. It may sound like an acronym for the newest in digital music technology, but it actually translates...
This story from the March issue of Gourmet has been making the blog rounds recently, but for those of you who haven't read it, it's well worth a look. Writer Barry Estabrook gives a detailed descripti...
We're in the middle of reading Milk by Anne Mendelson (full review to come soon!), and have naturally found ourselves becoming curious about the milk we buy for drinking fresh and for using in our coo...
The current 100% import tariff on Roquefort has never proven to be a significant impediment for its consumption. But what would an increase to 300% do? We may have to find out, thanks to one of Bush's...
Or maybe a better question is have you ever done it? Everyone's looking for ways to save money and trim down the food budget these days. Maybe it's time to return to the barter system......
Happy Presidents' Day from The Kitchn! We're taking today to look over some DIY posts in honor of our February Jumpstart Project. (Have you entered a kitchen project yet? You have just a few more days...
Back in October, during National Fair Trade Month, Emily highlighted several foods where fair trade policies—which require sustainable farming and just labor practices for the workers—make a bi...
Bringing Michael Pollan onto a show for people who already support good food can feel a bit like preaching to the choir! But what he says about food policy in the US and his hopes for President Obama'...
Is there really a difference between a product that's labeled "organic" verses "100% organic"? Just like the labeling on a carton of eggs, we think the labeling on organic products can get downright c...
We received this great question from Kitchn reader Meredith: More and more packaged foods are claiming to be free of trans fat even though partially hydrogenated oils are still included on their ingr...
Hooray for honesty in the government, especially if it starts in the fridge. We were tipped off to a New York Times article about President Obama's more casual, laid-back style in the White House, a...
Here's a good question from Sarah about a complicated subject that gets us all a little confused: Can you give me the scoop on high fructose corn syrup? Why should it be avoided? Is it the same thing...
Just a quick thought from the CNN-side desk of your founding editor. Instead of telling you about the parsnips I roasted this weekend (I'll do that tomorrow) I want to take a brief moment to acknowled...
Sara Kate's musings on her summer garden-to-be got us thinking about CSAs and farm shares. They fill up fast, and now is definitely the time to contact your favorite farm to reserve your spot for week...
This calendar is more a work of art than a place to pencil in doctor's appointments, but it's a beautiful way to help raise awareness for health care for migrant farm workers. Every month is a diff...
"Urban Homesteading" is a term we've been hearing in the news and around the web more and more often. What does this concept mean to you? Would you describe yourself as an urban homesteader?...
Nonstick cooking sprays like Pam and Mazola are convenient to use and boast fat-free cooking. But these products have also always seemed to us like one of those strange slightly-mystical products akin...
For years, we've been using our plastic grocery bags to line all our trashcans (including the one in our kitchen). Now that we've been packing groceries in our own cloth bags, we're running out of pla...
Most CSAs and farm-shares have sent their last boxes of winter vegetables and closed up shop for the season. Now that we've had a chance to catch our breath (and finish eating our leafy greens!), we t...
I'm blogging live from the corner of Bleecker and Grove in NYC where I'm devouring a terrible scone. After this I'm going to a phone-banking gathering around the corner where there will probably be mo...
Here we are with the weekly food news roundup. There's some local San Francisco news throw in here, too. Read on ......
As pie and cookie season nears, we thought we'd focus on sugar for the final installment of our Fair Trade pantry series....
"At times it sees that the search for good health has taken all the pleasure out of life. It has stripped us of butter, cream, marbled red meat, pork, and goose fat, not to mention alcohol and fine, h...
Olives! Olives, grown for food and oil, are one of the most ancient crops in human history. The groves of olives in some of these photos are hundreds of years old, clinging to hot, dusty hillsides in ...
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