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Organic: The Debate Rages On

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a British study claiming that organic food is no more nutritious than conventionally grown food. After the news broke, a rousing debate emerged in newspaper columns...

Goodbye Tomatoes? Widespread Fungus Killing Off Crops

Those of us who live in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic need to enjoy our tomatoes while we can. A fungus called late blight—a strain of which caused the Irish potato famine—is rapidly destroying lo...

Spotted: Yellow Baby Carrots

We saw a bag of these the other day at Westside Market and did a double-take. Are we missing something? Are you eating yellow carrots?...

Family Mealtime: Cooking for Babies
Guest Post from Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet

There is no doubt that I am inherently a food snob, and it is no secret that I’m trying to turn my kids into foodies too. I believe that what we feed our babies — and how we do it — can ...

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...

Best Kitchen Composters

We have this pretty great arrangement whereby I keep a canister for kitchen scraps on my counter, and our neighbor, who has a small garden and compost bin behind her apartment, takes the scraps down e...

Massa Organics: California Whole Grain Brown Rice

We have almost 500 people signed up for The Kitchn Cure and Week One's assignment has them cleaning out their cupboards. I was wiping my shelves down last night and remembered how much I love my brown...

Greenling Organic Delivery
Central Texas

When my mom's San Antonio-area CSA folded a couple years ago, she turned to Greenling, a Central Texas produce delivery service. Greenling is best known for its online store, which makes organic, sust...

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...

Northern California Farmer's Market Report: San Rafael

Bright orange carrots. Recipe suggestion: Carrots in Marsala. Last Sunday, I went to the San Rafael Farmer's Market, which is in full winter swing. Christmas trees and cider were there, along with ...

Product Review: TRU2 Organic Gin
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

I’m a big fan of gin - and of the Slow Food approach to mixing drinks - so when I heard about the launch of TRU2 Organic Gin this fall, I was eager to test-drive this new arrival. Before the bottle...

Price Check: Are You Buying Less Organic Food?

Are rising food prices cutting into the growth of organics? Seems like it, according to an article in the New York Times this weekend. Whole Foods Market is struggling through a tough patch, and it se...

Book Review: Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta

Rancho La Puerta started almost seventy years ago when Edmond and Deborah Szekely went to Tecate, Mexico and started a "health camp." Guests paid $17.50 for a week at the camp. You had to bring your o...

Look! Heirloom Pumpkins At Whole Foods

Spotted at my local Whole Foods in San Francisco: heirloom pumpkins! Yes, I bought several in various sizes and colors. They look so cool lined up on my front stoop right now....

MyFarm - Urban Gardening and CSA From Your Backyard
San Francisco

MyFarm is a group in San Francisco that is interested in turning residential backyards (and frontyards) into a collection of urban farms. If you want to have some vegetables grown in your yard, but d...

In Memoriam: Do You Have a Favorite Newman's Own Product?

We were very sad to hear about Paul Newman's death on Friday, and, as a food-loving community, we wanted to take a moment to appreciate what he brought not only to our televisions but to our pantries....

Source for Stone-Ground Grits: Anson Mills

And since we're writing about grits, we thought we'd give you a good mail-order source for an exceptional, stone-ground variety. Anson Mills in Columbia, SC, grows organic, heirloom corn and sells ...

Road Trip with a Purpose: TheWhoFarm

TheWhoFarmMobile rolled into our town last week. Traveling in their eye-catching, biodiesel-fueled school bus (complete with an edible garden on the roof), Daniel Bowman Simon and Casey Gustowarow are...

Straus Family Creamery
Sonoma County, CA

If you've shopped at Rainbow Grocery or Bi-Rite Market, you've probably seen those glass bottles with the cream-top milk and creamer. Most likely, they came from Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma Coun...

Look! Shelf-Stable Organic Milk

Browsing through the organic aisle of our big-box grocery store the other day, we did a double take. Something seemed out of place. We scanned again, then found it: a familiar milk carton on a shelf. ...

Uninvited Guest: A Baby Slug in Our Beets

If we ever needed a reminder that our food comes from a farm, it arrived last week, falling out of a bunch of beets we brought home from our CSA... ...

Farm to Folk: A CSA Connection In Ames, Iowa

For those of you living in or around Ames, Iowa and looking for a CSA, here's one option: Farm to Folk....

Blogging the Denver Post: The Ultimate Colorado BLT

With the nonstop news coverage switching today from the Olympics in Beijing to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, we thought we'd see what was cooking in The Denver Post. This big, juicy ph...

Mariquita Farms Mystery Box

Every other Thursday, Mariquita Farm in Watsonville delivers preordered produce to San Francisco. They park at a different restaurant each time, and the contents of the box are unknown. ...

Where Does Milk Come From? A Tour of Shatto Dairy in Kansas City

This being Ice Cream Month and all, we wanted to focus on the ingredients and producers that let us make this sweet creamy treat. So today we have another sort of treat for you: a tour of a dairy farm...

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