Maria's Farm Country Kitchen

August 10, 2009 • in Food & Recipes

Is It True That People Don’t Cook Anymore?

A recent story by Michael Pollan in the New York Times magazine implied that the problem with Americans is that we actually don’t cook anymore—we just watch it on TV. He blamed it on the usual suspects, including our disconnection …

Top 10 Tips for Sober Entertaining

I haven’t had an alcoholic drink in 10 years, and I don’t miss it one bit (except maybe once in a while, after a hard day in the office). But it does make entertaining different, and slightly challenging. You don’t …

Working Women, Unite!

As some of you may have heard, starting on September 1 I have a new job as CEO of Rodale, Inc. It’s a company that my family owns (I’m the third generation), and that I’ve worked for since age 13. …

The REAL Reason to Eat Organic Food

When I first started writing my upcoming book Organic Manifesto a year ago, I fully expected to have lots of information about how organic foods are healthier for you because they are more nutritious. The more research I did, the …

Secret Revealed! The Quest for the Secret of Really Green Pesto, Part 2

The Results: Making pesto can be a slightly messy job. Making two separate batches of pesto is a very messy job—especially since I was trying to get them both out on the table at the same time. I was reminded …

The Quest for the Secret of Really Green Pesto, Part 1

The Challenge: A few months ago (well, in the winter, actually), I mentioned in my Organic Gardening magazine column that one of my goals this summer was to discover how to keep pesto really green. Really, really, green. Like the …

Top 10 Places I Want to Travel to Before I Die

For some crazy reason I don’t have a vacation planned for this August. One day I looked at my calendar, and there was no room left to get away—when you combine my schedule, my husband’s schedule, and all the kids’ …