Growers and Grocers

I was watching Gordon Ramsey’s F Word the other day when I was again reminded of a sad fact.  According to Ramsey, one out of three children don’t know where French fries come from.  In America, when asked where food comes from, a sizeable percentage of children answer “the supermarket” or “the store.”
As a food […]

Jeffrey Steingarten, food critic for Vogue, measures the progress of society by examining the amount of calamari we consume as a nation.  He argues that the more squid we eat, the more sophisticated we are as a nation.
Normally a fan of the man’s work, I think he misses the mark with this rating.  Short of […]

I need to get on my soapbox for a moment because I am seeing a trend in ingredient pricing and it has me feeling cantankerous.
The other day at Whole Foods, a store known for its prices, I saw truffle oil for sale (not on sale, for sale) for less than five dollars.  Granted, it was […]

Having grown up in the Midwest and relishing the overpriced tropical fruit that the specialty grocery stores sometimes offered, I was clearly taken aback when I traveled to one of the poorest nations in the world, Tanzania, finding myself on dirt roads lined with overflowing baskets of vividly colored and breathtakingly fresh fruits like papayas, […]

I stepped out of my normal shopping routine last week and went to my local Whole Foods to pick up some badly needed fruits and vegetables.  I had managed to make a total mockery of healthy eating over the weekend and wanted to get back on track with some clean, fresh produce.

I grabbed pretty standard […]

I’ve been a devoted Method laundry detergent user for more than three years. Prior to that, I used All Free and Clear for years because it was free of fragrances and dyes that make me itch and give me hives. I changed detergents because Method was more natural and more environmentally friendly. The variety I […]

Created by Vessel, the innovative product design firm that invented the overwhelmingly successful, award winning Candela lights,  the Guardian’s name matches its function.
With a portable lantern, which automatically illuminates during power failures, and a constantly lit plug-in base and charger, the Guardian utilizes warm white L.E.D.’s.
A longer lasting bulb that uses vastly less energy, light emitting […]

Unless you don’t follow the news, you’re probably well aware of the latest food scare - tomatoes tainted with salmonella.
The big question that has yet to be answered is how do thousands of pounds of tomatoes get tainted with salmonella, a bacteria that originates in the digestive tracts of humans, birds, and other animals? As […]

Punk Rock Cabinet de la Meridienne, Alison Nelson’s Chocolate Bar – located on the third floor atrium of Bendel’s – is the perfect respite for fair trade organic tea and single origin fair trade truffles.
After an exhibit at MoMA, a visit to the polar bears at the Central Park Zoo, or window shopping at Tiffany’s, […]

It began innocently enough. In 1953, just 10 years after penicillin became widely available, Lain Macleod, the then minister of Health, told the House of Commons in England that feeding antibiotics to farm animals to make them grow faster would have “no adverse effect whatever on human beings.” Government research had, in fact, only looked […]