Teeny Tiny Spice Co – Flavors of the World, From Vermont
Are you in a culinary rut? Do you keep on making the same handful or two of dishes over and over? Sure, they’re quick and easy, but you’re getting awfully bored with them…
Joshua Katcher – The Discerning Brute
Joshua Katcher is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, self-taught vegan chef, businessman, activist, television producer, self-declared hotshot and jack-of-all-trades. In 2008 he founded “The Discerning Brute,” a resource for intelligent men who want to…
The Art of Eating In… and Finding Yourself
The saying goes that New York apartments no longer need kitchens because nobody cooks anymore. Although that may not actually be the case, it is not too far from the truth. If you’ve…
Endangered Foods
We have all heard about endangered species, animals at risk of perishing because of altered conditions in their natural habitats, some caused by humans. Many do not know that the way we grow,…
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…
Making Dumplings at Garden of Eve
To me, the only thing that beats eating really good food is eating really good food that I cooked myself, using farm fresh ingredients grown mere steps from the stove. On a recent…
Pure Indian Foods – Oh, Ghee!
Have you ever had a recipe call for clarified butter? If you have, and if you’re like me, you’ve tried to make clarified butter yourself. For a recipe that contains only a single…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 10
The general theme for week 10 was definitely You’ve got to shop around. In my short time residing in Southern California I have been told at least once a month, “how lucky I…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 9
Here we are at week nine, and every time I tell people what I am doing they are still fascinated, scared, interested — in general, I still get a huge mixed ball of…
Interview with Cathy Erway of Not Eating Out in New York
Before having the pleasure of actually meeting her, I sampled Cathy Erway’s cooking at a May Day dinner party on Queens County Farm, where she and Hapa Kitchen partner Akiko Moorman were responsible…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 8
After I got over our decision to add in fish (fish oil for me, raw fish for Cameron), the journey was back on. It was just another week of otherwise raw organic vegan-ness,…