I was doing a little weeding today and under the cauliflowers found a lot of reddish plants that I realized were young amaranth plants, small because they’re shaded by the cauli leaves. I count on the amaranth to reseed itself every year. It grows to six feet and has strange dangling furry red flowers and [...]

Food has always been a central environmental concern, but there are some new issues arising. One is the growing conflict between fuel and food–or, one might say, between SUV drivers and the world’s poor–and another is the mass marketing–or, perhaps, the industrialization, of organic food.
It’s a little hard to tell whether Michael Pollan thinks [...]

If you are enjoying–or at least experiencing–snow and ice this weekend like many of us across the States, here’s the easiest bread in the world, developed by Doris Grant in wartime England. The beauty of this famous “Grant Loaf” is that it requires only a few ingredients, there’s a single bowl to wash, and you [...]