The second part of Cooking for Solutions (see part 1) involved cooking, and lots of it! On Saturday night, 2,500 people paid $150 per person to roam about the aquarium and drink wine and eat small dishes to their hearts’ and stomachs’ content. More than 70 chefs and 60 wineries participated, and although I tried […]
Exploring
Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 1
Every once in a while, when get invited to speak somewhere, I accept more because I know the person asking me than because I know what I’m actually signing up for. Such was the case when Myra Goodman, cofounder of Earthbound Farms and a woman I admire, respect, and adore, invited me to come to […]
5 Tips for Mastering an Antique Show
by guest blogger, designer Mark Kintzel I love going to antique shows. You never know what you’re going to find, or whom you’re going to see. (Let’s just say, antiques aren’t the only finds with “patina.”) One year at the Antiques and Collectors Extravaganza in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, a dealer was selling coffins. Ummm…I’ll pass. But […]
Top 10 Tips for Traveling Well
I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately. Too much! Well, it wouldn’t be too much if I were going on vacations with my family—preferably to warm, sunny places. But no, it’s to places for work, accompanied by semi-relentless schedules and not enough time to explore and relax. As a result, I’ve fairly mastered the […]
Highlights from The Future of Food Conference
Highlights from The Future of Food Conference Where to begin? Well, how about with a brilliant speech by HRH Prince Charles that was practical, spiritual, and sharp. He’s not new to organic, so his passion for the topic of the future of food is both genuine, incredibly smart, and comprehensive. Here are a few of […]
What It’s Like to Meet Prince Charles
It started with a mysterious email from Eric Schlosser, who wrote the forward to my book Organic Manifesto. For security reasons, I couldn’t tell anyone anything until a few days beforehand. I just had to be in Georgetown, Washington, DC, on May 4th. I had to cancel a long-planned lunch with some romance writers—but if […]
A Whirlwind Trip to Germany
A few months ago, I got invited to be the keynote speaker at Biofach, in Nuremberg, Germany. Biofach is the world’s largest trade fair for the global organic industry. I accepted right away—not only because of the honor of being asked, but also because we have publishing partners in Hamburg, and this would give me […]
BikeTown Africa: Transforming Rwanda
By guest blogger Steve Madden, vice president of creative services and digital production development at Rodale. I can’t tell you his name, but I can tell you the circumstances of his birth. His father, a Hutu, raped his mother, a Tutsi, after killing her family. During the rape, she became infected with HIV/AIDS. And […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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