With Thanksgiving around the corner, I’d like to give thanks for a wonderful year for Rodale that included the opening of Rodale’s. I’m also thankful for all the amazing food that Thanksgiving offers! And to help you get cooking, here are five of my favorite kitchen pantry essentials, perfect for making this year’s holiday meals […]
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6 Essential Kitchen Tools
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. For years I lived in tiny Manhattan apartments with microscopic kitchens that barely had room for a person to stand, let alone cook. Yet even with little space to store or use kitchen supplies, I managed to cook and feed myself, thanks to these utterly essential kitchen tools.
How Safe Is Your Cookware?
By guest blogger Isaac Eliaz, MD. Many people don’t consider the fact that some cooking methods can actually increase the presence of toxins in their meal. A significant number of consumer reports and scientific studies have revealed the presence of harmful, carcinogenic chemicals and heavy metals in aluminum and other nonstick cookware products. Stay safe with these simple tips
Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 2—with the Chefs!
The second part of Cooking for Solutions (see part 1) involved cooking, and lots of it! On Saturday night, 2,500 people paid $150 per person to roam about the aquarium and drink wine and eat small dishes to their hearts’ and stomachs’ content. More than 70 chefs and 60 wineries participated, and although I tried […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: John Grogan
My dear friend John Grogan is in my kitchen today, chatting about eggplant steaks, vegetable chili, and the living and breathing kitchen tool he could never do without. John Grogan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Marley & Me, and the best-selling memoir The Longest Trip Home, as well as a […]
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 from where our food comes from, the corrupting influence of television, and a food industry […]
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 kind you sometimes get in restaurants when it comes out on your plate, and it […]
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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