I had always thought of urban foraging like a treasure hunt. Sneaking through the bush, avoiding questioning eyes, searching high and low to seek my quarry – ripe fruit for the taking. Reality was slightly different. In broad daylight, I pulled my car up to the curb, hopped out, and scavenged my first fallen fruit. [...]
The Dog Days of Summer have arrived and all I can think is “dang it’s hot.” Too hot to think, too hot to move, and way too hot to cook. Just when it seemed like I was destined to starve for lack of the will power to turn on the oven, I remembered the wonder [...]
It was quite serendipitous that I should receive an invitation to a media dinner at Tender Greens on the heals of writing a post questioning how one can measure “good enough” in eco-minded companies. Tender Greens has been an eco-aware restaurant from its inception, and with their expanding focus on local ingredients, they continue [...]
A few weeks ago I came across a vegetarian recipe with a name I couldn’t resist – Three Sisters Stew. I found the recipe on Cookus Interuptus, a fun website that offers short comedic cooking instructional videos. I decided it would be the perfect meal to test out at this weeks Sister Sunday [...]