Quote for Today: Laurie Colwin
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest …
Quote for Today: Keith Floyd
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue… Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing – love. Love for food …
Quote for Today: Robin Wall Kimmerer
In a garden, food arises from partnership. If I don’t pick rocks and pull weeds, I’m not fulfilling my end of the bargain. I can do these things with …
Quote for Today: Richard Wilk
But instead of being frozen in time, I want to show that “local” and “authentic” food are as much creations of modernity as survivors from before it. Authenticity is therefore …
Quote for Today: M.F.K. Fisher
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without …
Quote for Today: Mahatma Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ―Mahatma Gandhi Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Grab Your Shovel: Guerrilla Gardening in Los Angeles
As the appearance of a community decays, its people decline too. Can collaborative gardening help restore community health and spirit? Guerrilla gardening is the planting and tending of gardens on public …
Food, Labels and Unexpected Voices: Graffiti Artists vs. GMO
California Proposition 37 would have been the first law in the United States requiring retailers and food companies to label products made with genetically modified ingredients had it passed in late …
Time to Play With Your Food: The Art of Bento
What happens where creativity, status, and practicality meet? In this case, lunch! Bento encourages you to play with your food. Bento is a homemade or takeout meal common in Japan. Traditionally packed …