When I had Alice Waters over to my house for dinner, there was just one thing I wanted from her: to learn how to make real restaurant-style salad dressing the way she makes it. I’d eaten her salads before and all I can say is YUM. I needed to know the secret! I was thrilled […]
Organic Food
Making Dinner for Alice Waters
A few weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night in a bit of a panic. Alice Waters was coming to accept the Rodale Institute Organic Pioneer Award on a Friday night, and on Thursday, she was speaking to our editors, so that meant…SHE’D NEED TO EAT SOMETHING ON THURSDAY NIGHT! Crap. […]
Why I Only Eat Organic Apples and Why You Should, Too
by guest blogger “Coach” Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute executive director Apples. Apples are the single most pesticide-contaminated produce item available at the grocery store. If you had to choose just one item from your grocery list to buy organic, make it organic apples. Why do we spray so many pesticides on apples? Well, we humans […]
Steamed Clams with Browned Butter
Steamed clams are a major Rodale family tradition. And it can’t be any old butter. It’s got to be browned butter! Long before I was born, my grandparents had a clambake for their employees every summer. And I grew up anticipating the yearly treat of a bunch of clams in a net sack, steamed and […]
Tomato, Green Bean and Pine Nut Pasta
So I get home from a weeklong vacation in late July and there is nothing in the refrigerator, and while the food was good while I was away, I am CRAVING fresh vegetables and simple food. Fortunately for me, ripe ‘San Marzano’ paste tomatoes and pole beans were ready in the garden, as well as […]
I Found My Pill on Blueberry Hill
“A Nap after Blueberry Picking” by Joseph Csatari by guest blogger Jeff Csatari, executive editor of special projects for Men’s Health One sign of good health: blue poo. If you eat enough blueberries, that’s what you get. But have you seen the price of organic blueberries, even now during peak season? A quart costs $8 […]
How Fracking Affects Your Farmer’s Market
by guest blogger Harriet Shugarman, executive director and founder of ClimateMama and a mentor and climate leader for the Climate Reality Project As we become more careful about what we put into our bodies, options and opportunities to be more health conscious abound: organic, non-GMO, gluten free…the list goes on. Will we soon be adding […]
How Safe is Raw Milk?
by guest blogger Deirdre Imus, author and environmental health advocate Lately there has been some controversy brewing over milk—specifically raw milk, and its sale and safety. By definition, raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Proponents of the raw stuff insist it not only tastes better, but it’s also more nutritious since […]
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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