A Rite of Passage: AARP
September 7, 2010
Well, it finally happened to me. I was opening my mail—feeling fit as a fiddle—listening to really cool new music—when I saw it. MY FIRST MAILING FROM AARP! Ack!
I know for a fact (since I heard someone from AARP say it in a meeting not even a month ago) that AARP doesn’t want to be known as the Association for the Advancement of Retired People anymore. After all, who can afford to retire these days? But there is no question that getting a mailing from AARP means something very… more
Comments (6)It’s Perennial Love!
September 2, 2010
Today tomato week continues with a very special treat…a short film that celebrates our passion for tomatoes by featuring passion and tomatoes. Perennial Love is perhaps the first romantic melodrama with an all-botanical cast. There’s romance, drama, mystery…and plenty of lycopene. Tomatoes in love! We hope you enjoy it. But be forewarned…there was too much romance to fit into a single reel. So you’ll have to come back tomorrow to see the exciting, dramatic, and saucy conclusion!… more
Comments (4)School Lunch: One Meal, One Dollar, Part 2
August 24, 2010
By guest blogger Ed Bruske from The Slow Cook.
For Part 1, read here.
Earlier this summer, I spent a week outside Denver, Colorado, sitting in on a “culinary boot camp” designed to take kitchen workers who normally deal in frozen chicken nuggets and Tater Tots and turn them into chefs able to… more
Comments (1)Girls and Golf: My Ultimate Sports Dilemma
August 20, 2010
I have mixed feelings about golf, and mostly mixed negative feelings at that. My father never played it, but as a young workingwoman, I really used to resent the exclusion of my own gender as the “guys” would go off on a summer afternoon and “work” on the course. Sure, it was fun for them, and I’m sure it got deals done, but I was disgusted by the culture that excluded me. And that was before I learned that golf stands for “Gentleman Only, Ladies Forbidden.”
Plus, the local… more
Comments (20)A Visit to My Kitchen: Alison Grantham
August 12, 2010
Alison Grantham is in my kitchen today, sharing her insights from testing organic and chemical agriculture, and her surprising chocolate-and-vegetable guilty pleasure.
Alison currently directs all aspects of the Rodale Institute’s soil-focused organic agriculture research program. Previously, Alison completed a thesis in soil ecology in which she developed a calorespirometric method to quantify changes in soil microbial metabolic efficiency, and their climate-change implications, at… more
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