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Posts tagged “Conscientious Cook”

Ginkgo Organic Gardens in Chicago

When gardening season rolls around in Chicago, we tend to get a little restless. We curse our north-facing kitchen windows and shaded deck, where many a plant has gone to die, and half-heartedly brows...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: The LA Burrito Project

Since reading about food pantries and shelters struggling with the rising food costs, we've been struggling with how we might be able to help out. There's one man out in California who already knows ...

Green Tips: Recycling Appliances

With Earth Day earlier this week, we're especially thinking about ways to be greener in the kitchen, such as recycling old appliances. Until recently, most unwanted appliances were simply dumped in la...

Good Cure Question: What Are Processed Foods?

Last Thursday I gave a controversial assignment as part of Week Two of The Kitchn Cure: I asked you to pitch your processed foods. And the questions started rolling in about what, exactly, processe...

Entertaining: How Much to Serve at a Cocktail Party

Thanks to a family of extraordinary southern hosts and hostesses, we've inherited particular ideas about how much food to serve at a cocktail party. In short, the rule was "too much is never enough." ...

Tips and Tricks: How to Avoid Wasting Food

If you're participating in the Kitchn Cure, you probably tossed a fair amount of outdated, spoiled, and just not useful food this week. Every time we clean out the fridge, we're filled with agita at a...

Backyard Gardening: Grow Indigenous Corn!

While scientists and food economists aren't all in agreement, there is a growing concern about the dangers of genetically engineered plants or GMOs (genetically modified organisms). Whether it's simpl...

Online Sources for Sustainable Easter Ham

With Easter coming up, we've started thinking about where to buy Easter ham from sustainable-raised pigs. We did some research and found several farms that raise their pigs without hormones or drugs,...

Conscientious Cook: Kiva Loan Update

Last week we asked you to support a farmer through Kiva, joining us as we loaned him money to help grow his farm in Nicaragua. Here's an update......

Conscientious Cook: Support a Farmer With Us At Kiva

Kiva is one of the most exciting ideas we've seen in a long time. We just loaned $25 to Emiliano Sanchez Hernandez, a farmer growing oranges, plantains, coffee and pineapples in Nicaragua. Would you...

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

Last week, I received a forwarded email from a friend, and the only reason I opened it was because the subject was "World Food Consumption" so it seemed like something I should read. You may have see...

Text Message for Safe Fish

We love our wallet card and all, but the information on sustainable seafood changes so rapidly, if you don't remember to download the new one each season, you can be left at the fish monger wondering ...

Mark Bittman on Minimizing Meat

So. Did you read Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times this weekend? Bittman, who is definitely not a vegetarian, lays out the hard facts about meat, energy, and the American diet. ...

Conscientious Cook: Local Food for Local Schools

"The processing of our food is profoundly disgusting, and the accumulation of packaging fills a giant barrel at my school every day." That's a quote from 5th-grader Aden Kahr of Olympia, Washington...

Another Reason Not to Eat Tuna?

It keeps happening: discoveries like the one reported on the front page of today's New York Times (High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi) keep telling us that eating tuna just isn't a great idea...

Conscientious Cook: AMNH's Global Kitchen - Watering Our Breadbasket

[This guest post comes to us from Adriana Velez of What I Made for Dinner. Welcome Adriana!] Many of us have heeded the drumbeat leading us to local and seasonal foods. But lately all the noise has c...

NYC: Recycle Your Old Clothes at the Greenmarket

Why not fill your market bag up with old clothes before you head off for the Greenmarket? We just heard that New Yorkers can drop off old clothes with Goodwill at the Greenmarkets in Grand Army Pla...

Conscientious Cook: Food Aid for Kenya

We have been following the news from Kenya closely these past two weeks as the violence and upheaval disrupts what is normally a very stable region. We have been particularly troubled by the reports t...

Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow and Dan Barber Speak

When I headed uptown to the 92nd Street Y last night to hear Michael Pollan, Dan Barber and Joan Dye Gussow speak to Hedonistic, Healthy And Green: Can We Have It All?, I expected to see a few hundr...

Conscientious Cook: Update Your Wallet Cards

When you're out shopping for holiday meals and stocking up for guests, don't forget about handy wallet guides; these can take a lot of the guesswork out of good choices for organic and sustainable p...

Cookies for Kids Cancer

Like to bake cookies? Like to eat cookies? You can help Band of Parents in their fight against childhood neuroblastoma and other cancers that affect infants and children. This holiday season Band of...

Conscientious Cook: Sustainable Seafood Month

Monterey Bay Aquarium offers one of the great ocean-friendly seafood guides we talked about last week. Food blog Leather District Gourmet took their guide as inspiration for a food blog event - Sustai...

Conscientious Cook: Sustainable Distance Eating

Local=Environmentally Responsible, right? Wrong, says a recent report from British researchers. After 199 pages of detail on everything from automatic picking machines to consumer packaging, the re...

Conscientious Cook: The Green Guide's Plastic Chart

Plastic is ubiquitous and seemingly indispensable in the kitchen. Certain plastics, however, have been getting a bad rep lately. The phthalates in many plastics are being linked to health problems and...

A Day for Good Deeds in the Kitchen

Today's a difficult anniversary, but we're joining with those marking this September 11 as a day of service, charity, and good deeds. We'd like to start this list of opportunities to help someone o...