What’s your Foodprint?
Globally, an estimated one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are from our food system and land use changes, which include GHGs emitted to grow, process, package, transport, store and dispose our food….
CSA Harvest Party in Upstate New York
The first great thing about being part of a CSA is knowing exactly where your food is coming from, and actually being able to visit your future salad while it is still growing…
Here We Grow
Craig King has been involved in the natural foods movement since its early days in Southern California. Influenced by his grandfather who was a chef and grocer, King grew up developing a great…
It’s All Peachy at Frog Hollow Farm
Whenever I’m in San Francisco, a stop at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market is a must. During the growing season, you’ll always find incredible produce there. Some of the best comes from Frog…
B.T. Baking – Because Brownies are Better Together
Good brownies are a joy, whether you’re giving them as a gift or devouring them yourself. But all too often, commercially-made brownies are too sweet, too salty, lacking in good chocolate flavor, and…
Passion for Pasta: Al Dente Pasta Co.
I have a great fondness for small-scale food producers with genuine enthusiasm about their products, but I like it even better when they the products are truly worthwhile and the producers manage to…
Eating-in for Healthy School Lunches
You can raise your kids on the most conscious diet of local, farm-fresh, organic food, and find that once they start school, all your efforts are instantly undercut. Unless you happen to live…
Fiddyment Farms – Pioneering Nut Farming
People have been eating pistachios for millennia. Well-known (and highly prized) in the Middle East and Southern Europe for centuries, they eventually made their way to the United States. It used to be…
Sonoma Sausage – Bratwurst with a Fan Base
It’s not very often that I get excited about bratwurst. It’s not bad, but as a rule it’s not the kind of food that makes me jump up and down. Of course, that…
Good Stuff: Brad’s Raw Chips
Brad Gruno had always been an entrepreneur in the construction business. In 2006, as a result of health issues, he began eating a mostly raw food diet. While his health and energy improved…
Chocolatiers in America: Knipschildt
If I had to choose three words to describe Fritz Knipschildt, I think “innovative, innovative, and innovative” sum him up best. If Fritz ever stops thinking about new creations, and new ways for…
Cooking Connection: Balanced Eating
“The problem,” he would tell me over and over again every week as I sat in my piano teacher’s living room, “is that people are either intelligent or physically fit. No one meets…










