You know deviled eggs have made a comeback when they’re on almost every hipster menu in America. I love that something like a deviled egg can be a hipster favorite while also being the most coveted item brought to a potluck, usually by an older woman who dishes out advice as good as her food. […]
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Quick and Delicious Rice Paper Summer Rolls!
Whoever said we have nothing to fear but fear itself could have been talking about rice paper rolls.* I’ve wanted to make them (Vietnamese-style) for years, but dreaded the complexity, feared the differentness, and practically hyperventilated over finding the right moment to tackle the job (because without fresh mint and basil, you might as well […]
Arborio Risotto with Garlic Stock
by guest blogger Martha Rose Shulman, New York Times Recipes for Health columnist and cookbook author The following recipe is featured in The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking: Templates and Lessons for Making Delicious Meatless Meals Every Day. When it comes to making risotto, when and how you introduce the vegetables that define your dish […]
Energize Your Pantry + A Fresh Spring Rolls Recipe
by guest blogger Brendan Brazier, athlete, author, and creator of Vega and Thrive Forward Spring—a time for renewal, growth, and plenty of spring-cleaning. Before you jump into summer, don’t forget the kitchen as you clean the rest of your life. Dump the junk and let your pantry thrive by stocking it with these high net-gain […]
The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Vegetable Cookbook + A Tomato Tart Recipe
by guest bloggers Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, The Beekman Boys One warm summer day, a family with a 4-year-old came to visit us at Beekman Farm. As we walked around the heirloom vegetable garden—52 raised beds on a half-acre plot at the heart of the farm—the child became fascinated with pulling carrots out of […]
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 […]
Quick Homemade Mashed Potatoes from Scratch
When I was much, much younger, I made instant mashed potatoes. But then I realized making mashed potatoes from scratch was just as easy and so much more delicious. It’s so easy I haven’t even blogged about it until now (when I realized that some of you might want to know). So many people over-complicate […]
Damper and Dip: An Aboriginal Tradition
Every once in a while something magical happens because of my blogging (and it’s why I keep at it). This time, I was looking at the comments from one of the blogs from my time in Australia and I noticed an offer I couldn’t refuse: an offer for “Nana’s Damper and Dip” from an Aboriginal woman.
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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