(Lactobacillus god – Sandorkraut) . A couple of weeks ago, while twittering, I heard about this conference at Boston University called “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” which will happen this coming weekend (May 8-9, 2009). Its sort of shocking how close I came to totally missing out on this conference. I have pasted at the bottom...

Unfortunately, America is starving it’s food banks. At a time when food bank demands are shooting through the roof, donations to the food banks are disappearing. The NYT is running an article in a special section called “Giving” entitled “When the Cupboard Is Bare” by David Cay Johnson where they delve into the...

(This is what you are really getting with conventional and Big Ag Organic food – depleted foods) Who has not stood before a pile of organic vegetables or fruits and compared their price to the price of the conventionally grown ones next to it? Who has not asked, on some level, is there some real...

I have been slow in posting this last week for a variety of reasons, most of them creative! I will be posting on some new recipes I have tried from a couple of new cookbooks, ones I made up myself, and also about this fantastic tour I took of several Vermont farms on an absolutely beautiful...

Because the flash slideshow seems to be messing up the browser for some of you, I am moving flash show further down in this post. This way, if you want to see many more of these portraits, make the jump to the main article, knowing that your browser may not handle the flash slideshow...

Make no mistake, this post is absolutely for the beef lover and especially the connoisseur of the highest quality aged beef. Most of us know what non-aged beef tastes like, somewhat homogeneous or one dimensional in it’s flavor. Some people experience non-aged beef as slightly metallic in flavor (the iron in the hemoglobin?), not a very...

(Apple Dumpling with vanilla ice cream and cheddar cheese) Here in central Massachusetts, we have an abundance of apple orchards. When tourists come to this region in the summer, they expect to do a few very specific things – buy antiques, pick apples, visit 18th century New England at Old Sturbridge Village, and enjoy a rural...

Will be attending this event today! Am looking forward to this and will be taking lots of photos to share...

Its April 4th and we woke up to a frozen rime coating our land, car, and anything that slowed down long enough to freeze. The robins were super fluffy as they tried to warm up (poikilothermy is an awesome thing) and find a frozen seed or two amongst our weed patches. I am starving for warmth, though...

As I promised, this post covers my experience with the New England Farmer’s Conference in Sturbridge, MA this last week. This was the first year for this event and it was well attended. Many small farm farmers packed into several auditoriums and theaters to listen to topics such as how to grow for and...