Sustainable Salmon Puttanesca, Ready in 15 minutes The ladies of the night, who originally made this sauce famous in Italy, knew they’d better get their...
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Why Is It So Hard To Lose Weight?
Most fat people who try to lose weight aren't successful. Does it make more sense to blame fat people for lacking self- control... or to change public policy...
Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian
"There is a fundamental difference between cows and screwdrivers. Cows feel pain and screwdrivers do not." Those are the words of Temple Grandin, the famed...
Happy Belated Birthday, Bobby Burns, January 23, 2011. Haggis for all.
Last night I went to a gala Bobby Burns birthday party. His 215th I believe. The hosts, Jane and David Cates, throw this shindig every year, complete with...
Sunday Cooks to Get You Through the Work Week: Recipe: Mama’s Beef Pot Roast and Roasted Root Vegetables Redux
When I was a child, my mother made pot roast for dinner every Sunday. Made in a big blue roasting pan and surrounded with carefully scraped carrots, potatoes...
Bottoms Up Friday, and the Damn Snow is Back. Again.
I’m taking my lead from Anthony Bourdain, whose new tell-all book Medium Raw, (ecco, Harper Collins 2011)about the food business and the dark side the public...
A Crack of Light Under The Door: Walmart Moves To Healthy Products
A Crack of Light Under The Door: Walmart Moves to Healthy Products. According to their latest press release, they plan to make thousands of packaged foods...
Recipe: Warming Winter Cannellini Soup with Kielbasa and Kale
Just the sort of soup Italian Grandmothers kept on the back burner for cold and hungry children, this is a recipe that tastes good the first day, even better...
Resveratrol Benefits Questioned
A Pfizer study suggested that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, and other molecules under development at Sirtris, don't really activate this key...
So How Do You Make Clean Water?
In replacing chlorine as a disinfectant in drinking water, we now have something turning out to pose possibly more serious health risks. This recent NPR story...