Unless you’ve frozen your Thanksgiving turkey carcass, it’s too late to make this soup now. But if you make a turkey for Christmas, or just for any old reason, this soup will be one of the best things to come from it. This soup has a special place in my family’s heart. It’s the soup […]
Organic Food
Float of the Month for November: Cranberry Float
My monthly ice cream float recipes make a quick and tasty treat perfect for each season. This month, if you’re looking for a last-minute cocktail or refreshing desert for Thanksgiving that requires absolutely no work, this is it. It’s colorful, it’s festive, and it’s fabulous. Plus, it will take you all of two minutes to […]
Pumpkin Pie from Scratch
Did you ever have a recipe for something that everyone loves but you? It’s not that I hate pumpkin pie…I just don’t LOVE pumpkin pie. And yet, every year my family—and extended family on the Italian side—beg me to make my pumpkin pie from scratch. I don’t mind making it. I don’t mind eating it, […]
Autumn Salad with Blood Orange Vinaigrette
Last night Lucia and I were home alone for dinner. I asked her what she wanted to eat and she said “salad.” Ahhh, the happiness of a child after my own heart. If I had only one food to live on for the rest of my life, it would be salad. Salad in all its […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD
Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD, is in my kitchen today to talk about the whole-circle benefits of organic food, her healthy favorite foods from childhood, and her well-rounded sources of news. Dr. Laufer-Cahana, physician (pediatrics and medical genetics), is an artist, serious vegetarian home cook, mother of three active school-age kids, and cofounder of Herbal Water […]
Organic Carts NYC
By guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics, the world’s first certified-organic restaurant using 100% organic ingredients, and one of the greenest and most progressive restaurants on the planet, www.gustorganics.com. Organic Carts NYC is a project that I had in mind for quite a while. New York City is a vibrant place, where […]
How to Get Your Kids to Eat Tofu
My friend Warren recently asked me if I knew any good tofu recipes that his daughter would actually eat (she’s an alleged supertaster, and often a picky eater as a result). Tofu is one of those things that gets a bad rep just on name alone; the name has come to stand for anything fringe […]
Eataly: Eat Awesome-ly
Now that I don’t really read The New York Times and Gourmet has folded, it’s harder to hear about new places in New York to check out for great food. I rely more on word of mouth or other insider information. Lately, one place kept coming up again and again; even Corby Kummer, his food-royalty-self […]
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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