Laura Klein is in my kitchen today, talking about the blessings behind food allergies, her sweet tooth, and the environmental concerns on her mind. Why is living organic important to you? Organic living is important to me because we are overexposed to too many toxic chemicals on a daily basis that lead to serious health […]
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Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 1
Every once in a while, when get invited to speak somewhere, I accept more because I know the person asking me than because I know what I’m actually signing up for. Such was the case when Myra Goodman, cofounder of Earthbound Farms and a woman I admire, respect, and adore, invited me to come to […]
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A Visit to My Back Porch: Adam Gardner from Guster
I can’t quite remember how I first learned about Guster. But I think it must be because of their song “Amsterdam,” which is one of my all-time favorite songs. As a writer, how can I not love the line “I’m gonna write you a letter, I’m gonna write you a book, I wanna see your […]
Ten Reasons Why I Love Bob Dylan
Photo: (cc) Heinrich Klaffs/Flickr, license from Creative Commons 2.0 I picked up the recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine that celebrates Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. I was in the airport, on a very long and unexpected airport delay, so I had time to spend. I was a bit miffed because the panel of Dylan experts […]
Cleaning Out: What Was I Thinking?
I don’t know about you, but every once in a while I get in the mood to clean out…REALLY clean out. The kind of clean-out that starts at one end and keeps going till there are bags of trash and stuff to get rid of, piled up high. What made me think of this was […]
Is America a Third World Country?
The other day I was talking to a dear friend of mine who had just returned from a business trip to China. “Coming back to America felt like returning to a Third World country,” he said. I was momentarily stunned, because I’d had the exact same thought when returning from Germany a few months ago. […]
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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