Good to the Grain

Book Reviews, Recipes

This week I pulled out Kim Boyce’s lovely cookbook, Good to the Grain and together with a wonderful post from one of my favorite blogs,   Cannelle et Vanille and Aran’s post about her now famous Summer Berry and Yogurt pie I was reminded of...

Eggs – Scrambled – MFK Fisher Style

Book Reviews, Recipes

  Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher is to cooking what Elizabeth Zimmerman is to knitting and Gene Logsdon is to farming.  Another brilliant, contrary writer!  I am uncertain as to what makes me gravitate toward ornery authors but I can’t seem to get enough of the bare...

Beard on Bread

Book Reviews, Recipes

James Beard is, to me, the Gene Logsdon of cooking, freakishly knowledgeable in their fields, a bit cranky and quite no-nonsense.  I guess that when it comes to farming and cooking I don’t really have time to read someone’s opinion, I want the facts and just facts. ...

Simple Living: How Connected Do You Want To Be?

Book Reviews, Simple Living

In pursuing a simple, thoughtful life, have you given much consideration to how connected you want to be? Our culture currently places premium value on being connected to everyone everywhere all the time. You have an internet connection, an email account, a Facebook...

Cut of the Week: Grass Fed Ground Beef

Book Reviews, Eat Local, Grass Fed Beef, Recipes

Every so often we see a huge surge in ground beef sales. Whenever this happens we find someone with a TV and inevitably there has been a ground beef recall. In his brilliant book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser reveals that the typical fast food burger contains...

"Plenty – Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet"

Book Reviews, Eat Local

If you’re determined to eat locally, you might enjoy Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. The couple embarked on an experiment to spend a year eating only what they could grow, gather, or purchase from a 100 mile radius...