When I got pregnant at 19 and decided to keep the baby, I would joke with all my 30-something friends that at least I didn’t have to worry about my biological clock. Back then, the talk at all social events among working women was the biological clock issue and whether they were going to be […]
By Maria
Chocolate Chip Molasses Cookies:
Hurricane Comfort Food
I don’t usually bake much, but something about an impending hurricane (Irene) made me want to have some cookies on hand. Once, a long time ago I combined molasses and chocolate chips and made a really good cookie, so my goal on the Friday night before the storm hit was to replicate that taste memory. […]
Come on Down to the 3rd Annual Organic Apple Festival!
Saturday, September 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is the Rodale Institute’s 3rd Annual Organic Apple Festival, where you can pick your own organic apples right from the tree AND eat an organic hotdog cooked by me. On the grill. It’s rain or shine, too. Last year the weather was perfect, and I ran […]
Hamburger Hash: School Lunch, Circa 1973
Everybody loves to get on the school-lunch-reform bandwagon, which I think is fantastic and very important. As a kid, I was a witness to the transformation of public school lunches from hot homemade food served on real dishes to prewrapped, premade food served on disposable paper trays. (Although, somehow, the same feeling was there for […]
ABC Kitchen – Worth the
Work to Get a Table!
I tried all the regular means to get a table at ABC Kitchen, the new restaurant by Jean Georges. Opentable.com. Calling. Well, I only tried a few times. I thought I should get special treatment since I spend so much money at ABC Home, the store where the restaurant resides. But no. I had to […]
Deadly serious: Antibiotic-Resistant
Salmonella Free to Be in Your Food
by Wendy Gordon In what country is it legal for deadly salmonella to be in your food? Um, well, there may be others, but I am sure of only one—the United States. Bad joke, right? No, deadly serious. “In strict legal terms,” Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug, explained on Wired.com, “there may have been no […]
Eddy Would Go
Many, many years go we went to Hawaii on vacation. My oldest daughter was at that age where we had to go into every surf shop (this was before there was an Abercrombie and Fitch or Hollister—we are talking REAL surf shops.) Everywhere we went were these bumper stickers that said, “Eddie would go.” Whenever […]
Earthquakes and Hurricanes
I don’t mean to glom on to the frenzy regarding natural events of late, but it’s not every week in Pennsylvania that we get both an earthquake and a hurricane. And I did the first draft of this on a yellow tablet, hand written, while the wind was gusting. It just seemed like the thing […]
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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