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Waste Not: 5 Ways to Use Leftover Bread

We've been baking our own weekly bread for a while now, which has been extremely satisfying. But on the downside, we've discovered that our homemade bread stales a lot quicker than store-bought bread....

31 Ways to Celebrate Fair Trade Month

Happy Fair Trade Month! Whether you're an avid supporter of Fair Trade or are curious to know what it all means, there's a new Web site offering daily doses of food talk, impact stories, events, and g...

Paper Towel Alternative: The Skoy Cloth

I'm happy to report that my household is almost completely paper towel-free! I keep a roll tucked in the back of a cupboard for those rare, really awful situations, a roll which (luckily) I haven't ne...

Food Budgeting: When to Splurge, When to Save

If you're trying to keep to a food budget, sometimes you have to make hard choices between what you want and what you can afford. But it can't be all about sacrificing - we need some luxury now and th...

What's Your Water Footprint?

Ever since we can remember, we were taught to be conscientious about water use – turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth, be mindful about watering lawns, etc. Lately, the scope of water c...

A Soup-To-Nuts Guide to Eating With a Clear Conscience
New York Magazine

Are we destroying the earth with our stomachs, as one commenter moaned on a new article from New York Magazine? Maybe, but we can help by applying wisdom to our food choices, says the article, which i...

How Do You Stay Cool in the Kitchen?

Small kitchens can get hot, fast, especially in the summer. Do you have a fan? Do you keep your windows open? Crank the AC? Let us know your tricks....

Strut That Sustainable Sockeye (With Recipe)
Guest Post from Clare Leschin-Hoar

Sometimes doing the right thing is just a matter of being aware of what’s going on around you — especially when it comes to the fish we like to eat. We gave up eating farmed-raised salmon year...

Conscientious Cook: What Should You Buy Organic?

Here's the scenario: you're trying to stick to a pretty tight food budget, but you're also conscientious about the food you buy. You can only afford to buy one or two organic items a week. What do you...

Survey: How Do You Shop?

This week, as I skittered around town getting ready for a dinner party, I thought about how differently people shop for food. First, let's see how you all shop, then some thoughts on shopping consci...

How Low Can You Go? NPR Makes a Push for Frugal Dinners

Looking for some inspiration for budget-friendly meals? Check out all the entries in National Public Radio's "How Low Can You Go?" contest last week - there are over 300 of them! Coriander meatballs w...

Quick Tip: Five Ways to Re-Use Yogurt Containers

We go through a 16-ounce container of yogurt a week at our house - that adds up to a lot of plastic tubs! It seems like a shame to throw such perfect ready-made containers in the recycling, so we've c...

Recession Eating & Cooking: Really Cooking at Home More?

Over the past few months, we've seen articles pop up in all the national papers about how people are cooking at home more in order to save money during the depression. We cheer a little every time we ...

Dinner Co-ops: What Do You Think?

We've been hearing a lot about dinner co-ops in the news and around the blogosphere in the past few months. We admit to being initially skeptical, especially since we assumed this meant shopping and c...

Maria's $79 Dining for Women Dinner Party

I recently posted a question in my weekly email and on the site from Maria, who had gotten involved with an organization called Dining for Women and was having a dinner party to raise funds for a proj...

How To Throw A Giving Circle Dinner

I received a great question from a reader a few days ago: Dear The Kitchn, I just got involved with an organization called Dining For Women which hosts monthly dinners at members' homes to raise mon...

Reduce Waste: Cycle Older Foods to the Front

In the restaurant biz, this is called "FIFO," or "First In First Out." Unlike some of those crazy molecular gastronomy shenanigans, this is one restaurant trick we can definitely apply at home! Let's ...

Edible Schoolyard by Alice Waters
Book Review 2009

The Edible Schoolyard program has become very well known in the last ten years or so, principally because of its original founder: Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. She was struck by what she saw as waste...

Conscientious Shopper: Do You Use Coupons?

Every week at our grocery store, we're handed a long scroll of coupons along with our receipt. Usually they're for foods we hardly ever buy and the coupons get tossed. But recently we've started payin...

Put Down That Winter Tomato! It Was Picked By a Slave

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...

Bartering for Food: Would You Do It?

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......

How to Have a Fair Trade Valentine's Day

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...

New Trick: How to Track Your Chicken Back to the Farm

We just read about this on Eat Me Daily (via Slashfood), and we're alternately overjoyed that we can type a code into a website to find out where our chicken grew up and amazed that someone hadn't tho...

Conscientious Cook: Understanding Organic Labeling

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...

Tip: Freeze Bread Remainders

We rarely find ourselves faced with a surfeit of bread in our household; we buy one loaf per week at the farmer's market and it gets devoured pretty quickly. Sometimes, however, there's a crust or hee...

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