Cooking Connection: The Difficulty With Manners
“Back then restaurants would make you anything you wanted,” my father has a way of making the things he says and does sound reasonable. “So you just demanded tomato soup?” I smiled, pushing…
Hello, This is Earth
Since you decided to make today all about me, I have decided there are a few things I would like to tell you. You humans have inhabited my surface for but a millifraction…
Give Bees a Chance
I have been thinking about bees a lot lately. While the world is worrying about economic collapse or who will be crowned the next American Idol, I am bummed about the empty hive…
Cooking Connection: Wine Without Laws
The kid’s been screaming for about thirty minutes. I know because I keep glancing covertly at my wrist watch, wondering “God will he just shut up.” The restaurant is so loud, no one…
The Most Beautiful Scarf
When my mother had to take time off from work while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer this year, she needed something besides reading (she’s a fantastic reader and can get through a whole…
Cooking Connection: Stuffed Chicken
At first every thing seems fine. You may not even realize it. You go to meetings. You smile. Now and then, they ask your opinion or for your help with some seemingly benign…
The Largest Ponzi Scheme
In the words of author and environmentalist Paul Hawken. “We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP.” What is this if not a…
Cooking Connection
“It’s complicated maintaining a kitchen,” my wife said to me, as I began unpacking and assembling our new food mill. “I guess so,” I was instantly uncomfortable with the word “complicated.” I’ve always…
Obama, Plant a Survival Garden
Most people in the environmental movement agree with the suggestion that the Obamas should plant a so-called Victory Garden on the seemingly useless and resource-intensive White House lawn. I certainly do, although I…
Dining as Experience
New Yorkers crave new, unique, over-the-top and authentic experiences. This is not so much a revelation as an unspoken compact that is part of the deal of living in this metropolitan city. This…
The Afterlife on Facebook
In real life I have a handful of friends that I talk to on a regular basis, on Facebook I have 278 (as of the time of this writing). I rarely converse with…
Red Flower and the Appeal of Smallness
A friend gave me this candle today. Call me silly, but I’m a sucker for miniature things. There is something so adorable about smallness. The gorgeous scent, Icelandic Moonflower, made co-workers stop, sniff…
November 18, 2015
Mrs. Kimberly Leonard — Dear Harmless Harvest,
Where do I begin? It's hard to choose the correct words to say THANK YOU! You...
September 1, 2015
Kelly Sims — Gwen,
I live in Durham and I see it all the time, sometimes on sale at Kroger and Harris Teeter.
Kelly...
