Winter in Northern California means crab season, pure and simple. Two days before the official start of the season I drove out to Bodega Head, where the Dungeness crab [...]
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Review: Skirt Steak
No. This is not a book of success stories from women chefs with their recipes. Neither is it a photo journal of hot girl chefs and their crazy tattoos. [...]
Review: Cindy’s Supper Club
While vacationing in France this spring, I was lucky enough to have a kitchen at my disposal and several local farmers markets within a 10-minute drive from the village [...]
Excerpt: Sea Change at the Fish Counter, A Shoppers Guide to Choosing Sustainable Seafood
Pin It Fish and Seafood We sell a lot of salmon in our Market– more than any other type of fish. Although our customers are invariably disappointed when local wild [...]
Excerpt: Tomatoland, How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
My obituary’s headline would have read “Food Writer Killed by Flying Tomato.” On a visit to my parents’ condominium in Naples, Florida, I was mindlessly driving along the flat, [...]
Excerpt: Skates and Sharks
Sometimes I feel the need to be in a support group for shark eaters, given the abuse I’ve taken for it over the years. Of all the dirty looks I [...]
Review: Good Meat, The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat
Good Meat The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat By Deborah Krasner Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2010 A hefty tome of shanks, gizzards and riblets, the latest book [...]
Review: The CAFO Reader, The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories By: Daniel Imhoff University of California Press 2010 Review by Jessica Goldman In his latest book, The CAFO Reader: The [...]
Excerpt: The Reign of Terroir
The term terroir has been used by different people in very different ways, and there is still a lot of confusion about what it includes. For example, locavores tend [...]
Excerpt: A Little Piece of Earth
Maria Finn’s new book unearths the secrets to cultivating like a locavore Foraging is an excellent option for people with limited or no gardening space. I’m trusting that since you [...]
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Farm to Rich Table: Spaghetti with Puntarella and Chicken Skin.
