Any food lover knows that fresh herbs just taste better than dried ones, but the fresh ones are expensive and often require buying a lot more than you want. What to do? Grow you own.
The easiest way to grow them is to take a trip to the garden center and buy little plants already started. […]

Categories: Tip of the Week · General · Food selection

While I adore produce, and especially the locally grown variety, people hoping to improve Americans’ diets seem largely to ignore that lots of people don’t cook much any more. And until we do something about that, all the calls for more fruits and vegetables and more locally produced food are going to make only an […]

Categories: Food selection · Healthy eating · Food preparation

In the recent past, “food safety” meant taking fairly simple steps-washing hands, washing food, keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Nowadays, though, we’re hearing more and more about food that can’t be made safe by these steps.
Congress has finally gotten into the act. To quote from a Reuters report on contaminated food (whose […]

Categories: General · Food selection · Environment

When I signed up for the Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance’s subscription produce program eleven years ago, I was enthusiastic about eating locally grown, organic (almost always) produce. I discovered, though, that I needed to expand the ways in which I typically used produce in the kitchen if I had any hope of using all the […]

Categories: Cooking for one · Food selection · Healthy eating · Food preparation