The fall is perhaps the one time of year we get ourselves out to a farm. Autumn is prime time for farms, what with all the apple-picking, pumpkin patch, and corn maze fun to be had. Did you go and vis...
We seem to spend a lot of time bemoaning the state of food in America. There's so much that isn't the way it ought to be that sometimes we forget to celebrate and appreciate places that are producing ...
Never heard of chicken bog? It's a traditional South Carolina dish made from chicken, sausage, onion, and rice—the whole thing a bit soggy and stewy (hence the "bog"). This version is a souped up on...
As you know, we're big proponents of grass-fed beef. Beef is a big issue in the landscape of American food, and we can't reduce the complex issues down to a simplistic choice of grass-fed vs. grain-fe...
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 ...
A couple of evenings ago you could have found me at home on my living room floor, peeling fava beans with my dinner guests. I had spontaneously invited them in only to discover there was nothing much...
E-i-e-i-oh my. Last night, Sara Kate and I went to a Gastronomica forum on Faith and Food at the Astor Center. Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh spoke about the challenges of farming while holding to their re...
Reader Ashley recently wrote to us with a snapshot of her visit to Red Sun Farm, a grass-fed beef and poultry operation near Cincinnati, Ohio. This is so inspiring to us! As the weather warms and th...
One hundred percent of Americans eat food, but less than 2% of Americans actually grow or raise food. Farming as the primary source of income has decreased so rapidly over the last century that unl...
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